Embarrassing to Show in Museums
There are so many flaws in this film. I am a military buff and I've worked at an IMAX for years, so I've seen this film hundreds of times. I'm just going to list a few of the errors I've found in the film.
Fake explosions. Clearly pyrotechnics during the last bombing run. When the A-10 shoots at the tank a fireball appears from the ground.
Some scenes they reuse. They a mirror image in one scene fire the rockets at the air. I can tell because the writing on the rockets is reversed.
They show a female pilot boarding a plane that says Captain Jim Worley on the side.
They show American pilots boarding an Israeli Air Force F-16.
In one scene they say "break left" they show the pilot move the stick left, but they then show the plane from the outside and its turning right.
They show an F/A-18 approaching the runway head on, then they switch to a different camera and now all of a sudden its switched to an F-15 thats touched down on the runway.
They are not using aggressor F-16s. Agressor F-16s would have blue or brown camouflage. Most scenes the agressors are grey.
They reuse scenes by filming a scene and inserting different CGI aircraft in. One scene they are flying over a bunch of tanks. They reuse this multiple times and simply insert different CGI aircraft to make it look like differnt shots.
They show John Stratton flying an F-15C but from the outside often he is shown in an F-15E.
"Tractor" the agressor is supposed to be flying an F-16, but in shots from the cocpit you can clearly see the twin tails of an F-15.
At the end they do the picture with everyone and John Stratton blinks during the group portrait. It looks stupid, why couldn't they have freezeframed the shot a second earlier so his eyes were open? Or simply retaken the shot? Is it that hard?
On a side note. Why do they keep dumping flares even when in a gun fight? Why do they never dump chaff or shoot beyond visual range missiles? I feel like they are excessively dumping flares because they think it looks cool on camera.