On Oct 19, 12:32*pm, frank wrote:
On Oct 19, 8:24*am, "H. Wilker"
wrote:



In article ,
*Ed Rasimus wrote:

I wrote all three. (Fighter Pilot in collaboration with Robin Olds'
daughter.)

I have, of course, read the first two. The last is on my list...

There is plenty of material out there and a screenplay adaptation
isn't what is holding such a film back.

Then I wonder what is? I have the feeling that the day-to-day life in a
Cold War fighter squadron is quite interesting enough for those writing
and lurking in these groups; for box office success, however, there
probably needs to be some added drama. That might be provided by adding
an exercise that almost manages to trigger WW III - as "Able Archer 83"
reportedly did.

Cheers

Helge

Strategic Air Command with Jimmy Stuart shows up on the movie
channels, but its based in the 50s. Funny, recently AF films are about
bombers, no notice of tankers or fighters.

Call to Glory was good, backdrop was real. But it was a TV series.

The Navy had Flight of the Intruder, which wasn't bad. But that was a
while back.

The military is using security as a toe in the door for a lot of
things. They don't want film people wandering around and perhaps
shooting some troops doping off or someone working a car during
working hours.

Locally we have Patrick AFB, which has the Air Force Technical
Applications Center. This is a four story building very close to a
main highway A1A. Despite having been rehabbed for security with heavy
fences, etc. there seems to be a need for a new $200 million facility
further back inside the base. The CO says in a newspaper article that
the new facility will be "just across the street from the current
one". Hopefully the street inside the base and not A1A.

The purpose of the building, tracking nuclear-weapon detonation and
testing worldwide, of course, secret and only disclosed to those who
take the local paper.

Things got awkward after 911 when the military closed A1A, for
security reasons, and made anyone trying to get from Satellite Beach
to Cocoa Beach by car or truck take a roughly 30 mile detour.


http://www.floridatoday.com/article/...Air-Force-Base