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- Former Navy fighter pilot Matthew "Whiz" Buckley breaks down more flying scenes from movies, including 'Dunkirk,' 'Independence Day' and 'Iron Eagle.'
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It's not an inaccuracy in Dunkirk that the aircraft are flying in too tight a formation - that was how the Brits did it in the first part of the war. They learned quickly to loosen up and fly finger four like the Luftwaffe.
he also misses the reason they flew in the V. it reduces fuel consumption for the wing aircraft. it also helps inexperianced pilots with navigation. it was eventually discarded because of the reasons he adds though.
It's also very lazy on the part of the CGI production team.
@@rick35758 As far as I know, they didn't use CGI for these scenes but real aircrafts (except for crashes of course)
@@Jhonnyzilla yep, for crashes they used smaller scaled remote controlled copies of the aircrafts.
@@rick35758 It's not CGI. Those are real aircrafts. Christopher Nolan said they used little, to almost no CGI in Dunkirk.
"If you're high-fiving walking to the jets, things like that, you're most likely going to die in that mission."
Spoiler: Will Smith's wing man does die.
Maybe because he actually saw The movie?
@@ramsaybolton9741 Hey doomer the chads stole your girlfriend
@Gregster right!! Good observation.
you underestimate the POWA of SCIENTOLOGY SIDE
WHAT MOVIE IS THIS
This man's voice should be used in voice acting for pilots.
💯
He sounds a little bit like Airforceproud95
Support that.
He does have a bit of an acting career already
He is just an amazing narrator with his voice, pitch, rhytmn and pacing :)
His headset proves he’s a fighter pilot
Or a gamer
@@pdowning9762 Oh I play a game...for real ;)
Proves hes an old dude.
@Just Me My human age is 35... that old? I think not. Abracadabra Holmes!
Oh I briefly know Matt . I used to fix his F-A18 with the hoboes.
"If the Air Force is resorting to teenage kids to rescue their downed pilots...we're in a sh*tload of trouble man."
That line killed me lol xD
Very interesting video. I have a tiny nitpicking comment on your Dunkirk comments, if I may... At 13:30 you mentioned that the pilots switch fuel tanks... in that particular scene, that's not what the pilot is doing. The fuel gauge in the Spitfire was plugged directly on the battery in an open circuit configuration and the button next to the gauge was used to close the circuit (powering the gauge in the process). Therefore, you'd get an indication of 0 unless you kept the button pressed, which would power on the gauge and display the fuel indication.
At 14:00 you also mentioned that the pilots were too close... in fact, this scene is historically accurate since flying "the Vic" was part of the RAF doctrine at that time to fly as close as possible. In theory, this was meant to increase the "volume of fire" when intercepting bombers (pilots were expected to fly formation with the lead and fire their guns while staying in formation), which was more or less useless against fighters. The Flying Vic concept was abandoned prior to the Battle of Britain when RAF high command realized that this really wasn't working as they intended. Germans affectionately referred to the Flying Vic as the "Row of Idiots" (Idiotenreihen).
that was very insightful I liked reading that
Appreciate your comments! I was speaking about how 'I' felt about their tactical formation, I wasn't commenting on the accuracy of the tactic for the time period. Not a smart way to fly, as you state.
Great point about the Spitfire, never flew the plane, but an incredible machine.
Row of idiots hahaha
i love that you were able to add these details, cheers and good on ya!
Don’t think he really cares mate 😂
I can watch these all day!
:)
Absolutely. I love hearing professional opinions on the movies I love...even if the movies are grossly inaccurate lol
Ikr
I do 😂😂
I am watching theses all day lol
The spitfire did not have wing tanks. It had a central tank located directly behind the engine and in front of the pilot (meaning many spitfire pilots burned to death in their cockpits). The fuel gauge was electric but had to be energised via a switch in order to get a reading. So what you’re seeing in that scene is the pilots checking the gauge, rather than selecting different tanks.
well watch at 12:38 as he says "I believe it's a Spitfire?". that should tell you all you need to know.
Harpoon_Bakery not every person knows everything about their profession, just a lot. You wouldn’t expect a gynecologist to do open heart surgery, so it’s not particularly reasonable to expect a former pilot to know about every possible plane
That said, I know a dude who was (and technically still is) a tank crewman and knows an unbelievable amount of trivia about every form of WWII and most flagship tanks since
military pilots, and I expect especially military fighter pilots, have substantial training in target identification. However, there aren't too many ww2 monoplane fighters employed by foreign nations, so it's understandable if they aren't able to correctly identify fighters that have been obsolete for 70 years =)
Actually I'm surprised a fighter pilot would have any trouble identifying an aircraft as iconic as the Spitfire. (I prefer the muscular look of the Tiffy, myself.) He can be forgiven for not knowing where the fuel tanks are.
@@danpatterson8009 He got it right though, was probably hesitating because he was infront of the camera
in Dunkirk, they have it very accurate, the formation they are doing is called Vic 3 and was mainly used in 1940 which wasn't that much of help to the brits due to the tightness of the formation
Yes. They're still too low though. Flying low and slow when you expect 109s is suicide.
@@tSp289 they would have been patrolling at a certain altitude, between 10-25,000 feet. That´s a lot of air space to scan visually. At the time of Dunkirk, they weren´t equipped with IFF (on board radar) and while RDF(land based radar) could pick up formations of aircraft, the Luftwaffe weren´t really flying big formations until well into the Battle of Britain, initially attacking shipping convoys. Also Mk1 Spitfire, used in Dunkirk, had limited fuel capacity and therefor range. And as the RAF had mostly withdrawn to the UK as german forces swept through France, had few, if any, safe places to land and refuel, so had to keep enough fuel in reserve to get back, as is stated in the clip. So they wouldn´t waste fuel climbing to higher altitudes or fly faster than necessary.
Well Brits abandoned this tight formation after Pols came to fly in RAF and formed their own squadrons like 303 and 302 where they implemented their Deblin Air School tactics with loos formation which they used already in Poland in 1939.
@@alanwaterworth6464 But they did definitely fly considerably higher than depicted in Dunkirk. It's widely known that the BEF was largely unaware of RAF operations as they saw very few aircraft - because they were flying above the cloud level as the weather was poor for most of the evacuations duration
I'm honestly curious. Why did they fly like that to begin with?
7:40 - If anime has taught me anything, it's that the fate of the world rests on the shoulders of one implausibly-skilled teenager stumbling by happenstance upon a war machine.
Wherein they come to learn the horrors of war as they slaughter hundreds of people and watch their friends die, while piloting a nigh-invincible war machine
Who embarks on a mission to avenge his father...
Who will inevitably come to the absolute mind boggling conclusion that in order to stop war in the fastest way possible, They should upgrade to even better nigh-invincible war machines but only destroy guns, legs and arms so even though their friends and allies get slaughtered wholesale they can stand on moral high ground and proudly proclaim war is bad mkay.
I bet that's the mentality of teenage Kamikaze pilots when they hop in their aircraft canopy.
love this !!!
"Iron Eagle has got to be the most ridiculous movie about fighter aviation that could have ever been created."
He really needs to see Iron Eagle 3.
You're kidding. there were 2 more?
He did say at the start of the Iron Eagle segment "this has got to be the worst series of fighter pilot movies god ever created" which pretty much covers Iron Eagle 3
@@elijahdowell7679 3 more. A total of four. One of the movies has WWII planes dog fighting modern day jets. Terrible
@@aaronhenning5184 I remember that....was Iron Eagle 3...garbage. If you haven't, catch The Final Countdown ....Kirk Douglas and Martin Sheen, has F14's up against WWII Zeros...the flight scenes were shot with the US Navy and even the end credit footage was better than Top Gun.
@@aaronhenning5184 I must watch them.
‘In Wall Street, guys will push their own mother in front of a train to make a buck.’ Accurate
The guys in wallstreet would probably take that as a compliment
Irony: Most Air Force guys would push their own mom in front of a train, for free, if it meant keeping the commander's spotlight off of them...
@@daxbradley4346 yo where is the lie tho??
"They'll kill their mama for some clout and a chain"
-Tom MacDonald
Not very realistic.
They would actually sell their mother for a fixed income and not waste the asset away with a murder. The murder covering cost would be off the roof and not very profitable.
Ex-Wall Street Guy here and this is the BREAKDOWN.
Dunkirk was and is a masterpiece of a film. I can not fault it. It kept me engaged, on edge, invoked emotion perfectly... The scene where are the British boats come in to save the soldiers had me in tears
Since you dug Dunkirk, try out 1917 sometime.
That was one of the reasons they changed to the finger four formation, but they actually flew that tight according to British pilots in that time period. They did have RDF, but not like what they had later. Love the videos though, i truly do.
Wookie120 yes, the “Vic” was the standard RAF formation for that time period.
I was going to chime in on this until I saw your comment. My gandfather flew Hurricanes with the 145 during Dunkirk and the BoB, and many of the stories he told me when I was young included how tight they flew their formations.
What he meant is that their planes were not equipped with radar.
@@notsureyou 13:54 to 14:00 - States the formation.
I also wantet to coment on this. The RAF was often critict for having to tight formations. Of corse I dont exatly know "how" close that was, and mabe for the movie and to get the planes in one shot, they fly more tightly then they raly did. But they did fly realy tight.
I was a Plane Captain in the Navy for E6-B aircraft. The only names on our planes were the current plane captains, since like he said, they were our planes. That was my best memory of my service time, seeing my plane taking off the first time.
Man the Dunkirk scenes, especially compared against iron eagle, are just phenomenal.
The story may have been garbage, but for its day, Iron Eagle's flight scenes were excellent, nothing was CGI. Dunkrik's flight scenes are some of the best, but there is more than 30 years separating the 2 movies.
@Peter Parkerman modern movies pretty much always have CGI. the best CGI is that which is unnoticed. I guarantee you dunkirk has plenty of it
@@berengerchristy6256 Dunkirk probably does have CGI in it but Chris Nolan, the director, is actually a fan of practical effects and only using CGI to enhance practical. I believe they actually got real Spitfire planes for the movie. They probably used as little as possible, there's actually a full scene in one of another of Nolan's movies (TDKR) where they actually cut a plane in half mid-air and it was all done for real.
@@berengerchristy6256 Nah Dunkirk actually had very little CGI
@@berengerchristy6256 most aircraft on Dunkirk are remote controlled models (the Stukas for example). That 109 that crashes in the water is also obviously a model
14:15 That is actually accurate for the time period, as far as the 3 ship "Vic" formation goes. The RAF basically stuck with it through the battle of britain, because they simply did not have the time to train the nugget pilots (who were seriously lacking in experience and flight hours) how to fly the fingertip/finger-four formation that the Germans had adapted a short while before the start of WW2, during the civil war in Spain (Condor Legion) . The Finnish Air Force also adopted the fingertip formation independently around 1936 I believe.
I think during the Battle of Britain they tried to remedy the problem by adding a fourth plane (tail end Charlie) to the rear of the flight as a sort of an overwatch. Worst position to be in ever. They also started flying with a permanent trim on the rudder, believing it would throw off the enemies aim (fuel economy was not an issue for the British at that time). Desperate Times?
The details in Dunkirk is so accurate even the watch the pilots r wearing is correct. The most unrealistic scene is probably gliding around for so long with empty tank at the end. That’s the scene this video should have choosen.
@@jonathanmitchell3733 Yes that's right! I forgot about that. Yeah, being the tail-end-charlie with no one covering your six must have been harrowing to say the least! Thanks for doing these commentaries Whiz!
Stop trying to Defend Nolan Villeneuve is a better than He is
Derek Robinson’s satirical (yet accurate) “Piece of Cake” tells how the initial training for the RAF was all about formation flying. Only the flight lead was really looking around, while everyone else was keeping formation. It took into the actual BoB itself for them to adopt Finger Four. The pilots made the choice, and the doctrine caught up later.
I know everyone is critiquing his opinions on the Dunkirk formation, but I just want to clarify that when they are both looking at the downed aircraft, he sort of implies that it's inaccurate. It's actually accurate though because they paid the price. The movie recognizes it as something pilots should try not to do, so they make the mistake, and they pay the price. So, the mistake was made by the pilots, not the director of the movie. That's the perfect example of what would happen if the pilots made that mistake in real life.
My husband was an F-15 crew chief stationed out of LAFB, 27th Fighter Squadron; thank you for the recognition of their role in combat aviation, and thank you for your service.
At the time of Dunkirk, the RAF did fly tight “vics” (three plane formations). Spitfire Mk Is carried 14 seconds of ammo. At Dunkirk, few of the fighter pilots had been in air combat, since the last war was over 20 years previous so it wasn’t unusual for them to get fixated on a kill or something else going on instead of “quartering” the sky around them to check for bandits.
"You are defeated. Instead of shooting where I was, you should have shot at where I was going to be." Emperor Lrrr of Omicron Persei 8
18:18 when he talks about ramming, there was this time in the Battle of Britain where a Hurricane (another British warplane at the time) spotted a German Dornier bomber heading towards Buckingham Palace. Because he had used all his ammunition earlier in a dogfight, he decided to ram the tail of the bomber with his wing, and it went clean through. The pilot managed to bail out and survive.
If I’m not mistaken there is footage of the plane going down.
I'm surprised you didn't talk about how Tom Hardy's character glided the plane around without fuel back and forth for like 45 minutes before finally crashing.
13:50 that formation is accurate, that was the standard formation of RAFs fighters during Dunkirk, the leader was the only one in the formation that was able to effectively search for enemy planes, the other two had to concentrate on keeping the formation, it was until the Battle of england that that formation was modified making it a lot more wide, with a lot of separation between the planes. So, the formation in that movie was accurate.
This is good content, informative and fun to watch. These people always feel like they're genuinely having fun explaining. Make more of these instead of the " Ten things this rich person can't live without." That doesn't matter to me, it's just people who I don't even care to recognize telling me how used they are to their luxuries.
:)
Ikr?!!
Preeeeeaaach!
Exactly, especially on that last part
Agree 🤟🏼 less celebs more real hard working people
Did anyone else have a flashback to The Princess Bride when he said "Inconceivable"?
Ha, that's the first thing I thought about when I head him say "inconceivable".
Independence day doesn't seem like a 23 year old movie.
Doesn't time fly?!
It looks like a 23 year old movie...
Maaan, it was like 3rd or 4th movie I ever saw at the theaters. Will Smith was my hero back then, and still is!
Ok, it doesnt seem like it's this old.
(8,811 Days)
@@danam2584
sure does!
This feels like if Bill Burr was a former a former naval pilot
Bill Burr is a helicopter pilot. It'd be hilarious to hear them shred aviation movies. This dude cracks me up.
Your comment gave me a lil seizure not gonna lie man
That bit where the spits are flying in close formation is actually historically accurate. They lost a lot of planes before they figured out that they needed to be further apart
Man.... That first line... If you're high fiving before going into jets and stuffs like that.. You are most likely going to die on that mission 😂😂🤣🤣🤣
Comment on Dunkirk formation: At that time the RAF rigidly stuck to close formations flying - they took some time to adopt the more effective - and safer, finger four used by the Luftwaffe, which used the fourth man to weave behind the leading element. It is unrealistic to compare initial air fighting tactics of the WW2 RAF to modern tactics - you might as well criticise the line formations of the American civil war to fire and manoeuvre used today.
Have a shot every time this guy says "umm"
That's right
You're still sober
Why is it giving me anxiety that he doesn’t say umm now that you told me 🙄
@@meowkii_ because he's that confident
That tight formation used by the spitfires was called the 'vic' and it is accurate to early war British air doctrine
Every branch: Chair force
Every branch under fire: WHERE THE F*** IS OUR AIR SUPPORT?
Probably off sitting in a chair somewhere
@@Deere55 As an Air Force member, I love this comment.
Except every branch has their own air support. While the USAF has Close Air Support platforms (A-10, F-16, F-35) their primary focuses are on Air Superiority, Interdiction, and Nuclear Delivery.
@@shok24199 Member? The Air Force has Airmen.
@@mattjamison484 who cares
I'm glad they did another video with Whiz! I could listen to this guy talk about this for hours and hours and not get bored. Please do another one of these!
I hope this guy never stops doing these videos - awesome!
Thank you for addressing calling a Marine “soldier!”
Wahh wahhhhhh
It’s a Michael Bay movie so the its not surprising.
I honestly thought it was done tongue-in-cheek in the movie. Like, he meant to do it. 'Cause he lowers the cigar when Will Smith says it. Like, "oooof"....
@@User-54631 whoops you’re right. Can’t blame him for this one. Guess I was thinking of Armageddon.
I actually find it laughable how status-bitching (yes I made that term up) people get about this. A little childish to me.
11:11 I'm happy that both you and C.W Lemoine tore this awful movie to shreds. Theres a reason the Air Force refused to help make it. Also the most ludicrous part is that the O-6 Colonel, who has a job in the air force reserves, is gonna sacrifice his career by stealing an F-16 and letting a teenager fly it. Definitely jail time.
I think might technically qualify you for both brig time and prison time. lol
@@jessc.8265 I think it also might technically be a war crime depending on the kid's age and where he drops bombs
The O-6 Colonel was posted to USAF Museum and he got the bright idea to rescue Downed pilot. Lol
Not just steal an F-16, but 2 F-16s fully loaded. Then fly to a foreign nation, and commit an act of war on said nation with a declaration of war.
@6:35 --
_"United States Air Farce"_ , eh? Gotta love that friendly inter-service rivalry 🙂
The CrewChief nod was pretty cool, thank you!
You are right about calling a Marine a "soldier". My head did explode when I saw and heard that in the theater. My boys were like " easy Devil!"
I flew in 2 Marine squadrons VMFAT-101 and VMFA-323... I get it! Thanks for your service Devil Dog
@Toxic Potato Only 'relevant' to a small demographic of Americans who have done more to fight and keep this country free than any other 'small demographic'.
And yeah...we are good at creating those... that's why this country is the best in the world.
@Toxic Potato well im glad I didn't let you down
@@TopGunOptionsTrading best country in the world in what way? Education? Healthcare?
@Toxic Potato It's the difference between "soldier" and "Soldier", really. The former being a generic term for military personnel, and the latter a title granted upon completion of US Army Basic Combat Training.
I’m a fan of this guy simply cuz he said “it gives me agita”. Love it!
I like Matt, hopefully we can see more of him. Very easy to understand and most importantly, hes passionate.
I love hearing this guy talk. Please bring more people like him to review movies.
Every ww2 pilot "I am out of ammo" the Japanese " I am the ammo"
I LOVE that his voice is DEFINITELY a pilot's voice (if that makes sense).
About that Spitfire tight formation: that's extremely accurate. Early in the war the RAF used this "always fly together" tactic for while. And the problems he mentioned with this tactic where the exact problems they had and the reason while they switched methods during the Battle of Britain.
@GQ great subtitles, thank you.
Good to see a pilot giving us plane captains and maintainers a good name :)
The Vic formation was historically accurate for the Spitfire surprisingly... Flying that close would require you to break left or right to avoid the other aircraft, allowing an attacker that surprised the formation, a rather predictable way to press the attack.
Always love these breakdowns
This was awesome man thanks for making doing this
Dunkirk was an awesome movie.
@Abrar Mohammad I think the main thing is the perspectives in the movie.
I would've loved maybe the Battle of Britain reviewed over Dunkirk, both great films and shows the courage of pilots but I think there would be more to analyse and inform the wider audience on Battle of Britain.
Simper Fi fro an old A-4 pilot. Loved your commentary
That three plane formation was SOP at the time for the RAF, they later (after the Battle of Britain) began to adopt the much better "Finger Four" formation developed by the Luftwaffe in Spain, and subsequently adopted by all modern air forces. It is period correct, even though in was demonstrated to be less effective.
I noticed the F-18's in Independence day are using the same formation of a lead "Vic" and trail"Vic"...some people never learn.
The weather brief in Southern California in July would go like, “uh I got nothing for you.”
"Just as a reminder guys: the weather is spectacular as always and I urge you to ignore looking at bikinis on the beach. Thanks."
Great breakdown
I just stumbled across these GQ videos of the pro's critiquing and can't stop watching them, learning so much, love the Les Stroud ones too!
I did grow up with this movie but looking back, I agree brother!
Whiz : We are taught to compartmentalize. You can't wonder did I pay the mortgage, is the grass too long....
Deadpool : (in the middle of a car crash) Did I leave the stove on?!
well Wade was Canadian...maybe they don't teach their special operatives that. LOL
@@scottb3034 nice
That's why Deadpool keeps getting killed.
Deadpool isn't the most mentally stable person in the world so...
Yeah, but deadpool isn’t a marine aviator
Can we make this guy and Jocko Willink's break downs a regular series? Please? :)
Very informative and very entertaining too, thank you so much!
Love this dude! Love this series!!
He should have addressed the Infinite Glide in Dunkirk.
Indeed.
It's a well known fact that a spitfire has a lift drag ratio of 1000000:1 and can happily glide a long time, but it certainly wouldn't be able to turn back.
12:33 a rare occasion an American acknowlages our success and gallantry in ww2
You mean how the Battle of Britain is where WW 2 turned in the European theater and everything after was clean up?
American's know but Hollyweird is a self contained bubble
My father was in the USN and a movie they had on Beta-Max in the recruiting office was Flight of the Intruder. Surprised you didn't cover it.
The spitfires' formation is called the Vic formation.
He should react to Stealth (2005). That would be hilarious.
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Thank you on the Soldier definition, we grunts in the Army feel the same way:-)
USMC here, yep
Cy * stolen valor much puss
@@mikeevans1372 how did he steal valor??
@@mikeevans1372 LOL, ok
@@mikeevans1372 Man you sound insecure
Yes, Dunkirk was indeed and wonderful movie... and yes, FLY NAVY! ❤️
Love your reviews!
Marines get called devil dog a lot, particularly as a LCPL. Typically when in trouble. Lol. Senior officers tended to call me by rank even as a junior enlisted.
16:12 you guys should've included the "I'm on him"
Matt, it's just the COOLEST thing ever that you were a Fighter Pilot.
He’s right about Dunkirk. Except the the three ship formation was called a Vic. Per RAF SOP they few in that tight of formation at the start of the war . The two outboard ships were to follow the flight lead. Then later in the war the RAF started to fly a four ship formation. Great video!
*Kamikaze* pilots were *not locked* inside their cockpit.
Though most weren't that enthusiastic about the whole concept, they felt obligated (more out of peer pressure than patriotism) to go out and try and sink a carrier.
If they could not locate the target or if they had engine failure, they could and did return to base to land safely, have the technical issue sorted out or wait for better weather, then they would try again.
There were also German and Russian 'semi-Kamikazes' who try to ram an enemy bomber then they believed they could still get out and use their parachute. Then there were also a tiny number of dedicated Germans performing true Kamikaze missions.
Thank you!!!
They were high on meth too. Edit. I read a book on German kamikaze attacks on bombers. Called the elbe fighters.
@@David.Bobson Not just the German kamikazes. At the start of the war, the German Armed Forces handed Pervetin pills out like candy.
Then there was the homefront. German housewives took Pervetin too because it made them into cleaning terminators.
The Allies used meth too but at least in the British Army, they were seen as a last resort thus they were included in survival rations 'to be distributed by an officer.'
@@AudieHolland if I'm right, I think the Japanese were the first to produce/perfect meth. But yes as you say the whole world bang on it or pissed up.
@@David.Bobson Well, it explains some of the fanatic fighting by the Germans at the start of the war. I read an account where, in Russia, a platoon is pinned down by an enemy machinegun.
The German sergeant thinks out loud, how about we flank that position with our own MG! Then they charge, veterans first, then the green soldiers.
And one by one, then more fall down as they're hit by enemy bullets. When they finally put their machinegun in the desired position, even the sergeant has bought it. And probably half the platoon.
Now how about those late war Japanese Banzai charges...
You should review flight of the intruder,greatest fighter jet movie ever.
Surprised there was nothing mentioned about the retro reflective sights in the Dunkirk scene. It was one of the best portrayed ones I have ever seen - much better than even most modern depictions, where it just looks like an LED screen. There was a reason they did it that way, and why it seems to fade as the camera moves but seems to actually stay still. It is super interesting, and one of the little details that is often overlooked.
One thing I would like to add having been Surface and Gator Navy, I would like to comment on the incredible moral boost you feel when you see friendly fighters overhead especially in less than friendly waters or territory. The cheers are real... Turn a victory roll on a fly over....beyond words fair winds fallowing seas GMG2
Is it it just me or does the flight instructor guy in Iron Eagle look like he's either high or about to fall asleep?
6:40 The us air "farce" XD
was that by accident or what? i couldnt tell
chAir Force to some
@@nickn7939 me neither
@@nickn7939 it was intentional
We need a part 3!
The V-formation you described with aircraft so close together was more than common in fact it was universal as pilots would easily loose each other and not be able to navigate back together, remember as well their inter-craft radios have very limited range oh and btw the spitfire had 1000 rounds only for each machine gun, enough for a 3 second burst
Great video overall
USMC here, darn right Squid. Doggies are Army, Jarheads are Marines.
So How was finding no weapons of Mass Destruction and setting up shop At The Lincoln Memorial like The Reich
@@TheHeston83 Internet Tough Guy
@@TheHeston83 The military didn't decide to go into Iraq or stand on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, the politicians told them to
@@thegoathimself9023 im trying to keep out miliitary they acted like our enemies checks and balances you third reich supporter
Don't feed the trolls
The silent scene in Dunkirk of Tom Hardy’s plane gliding along the beach after he ran out of fuel is one of the best movie moments in history
Some pilot buds and I watched this when it came out. I literally did the Top Gun "Bull$hit!" move when it happened. And it wasn't on purpose. It was a knee-jerk reaction to the BS we just saw. Edit: This was one of the worst and most ridiculous moments in movie history, b/c he killed a Stuka 793 minutes after he ran out of fuel.
BrittMac422 cool story bro
Ya flying around for 22 mins after you ran out of fuel is highly realistic...
@@9009matorres yeah, but, no. Cool reply though.
@@BrittMac422 You forgot to mention retaining energy while flying (gliding) with full flaps.....
I really enjoy these bits by GQ but in this specific one I really wish Mr. Buckley had also commented on 2 later scenes in each film but I suspect he didn't because they are sorta spoilers. In Iron Eagle, the scene where the son fires the missle while landed, if that really is possible, and also in Dunkirk, the final scene, so unbelievable of a moment where the fighter pilot saves the day at the end with no fuel left.
Do more of him pleeeez!!!
I'm glad he mentioned the lack of deflection shooting in Dunkirk. Even the second shot is edited to show him only shooting when the plane is inside the reticle. It's a shame Nolan had such little regard for the audience that he thought they wouldn't understand this simple concept. Then again, that spitfire glided forever and even went up to take out a stuka.
Always get a giggle out of how much rivalry there is between the services in US military...How about watching "Firefox"?
Thank you Whiz for your service sir
Great reviews. Love it.
It's been a long time since I heard "Brain Housing Group" lmao. 👍
Critics: please realize he’s being interviewed, they ask him a thousand questions and he answers. Then they chop and edit
Pilots are so interesting to listen to especially when they’re so intelligent and engaging like this guy
You have to have at least a Bachelor's to be a Naval Aviator. They don't trust high school dropouts with multi-million dollar aircraft.
benn454 I know. I’m in the airforce
Dunkirk is a great movie, but I was hoping you could explain how the boat captain was able to out maneuver the Germain airplane. The boat captain had some knowledge about aiming the airplane guns and how to evade them.
6:34 "the United States Air Farce"
Haha
6:40 That's why the USAF didn't provide any help as far as the production went, for that movie. They actually had to go to Israel to get the shots, both the Vipers and the Kfirs (who I guess are supposed to be a stand in for Migs) were Israeli. They actually got some cool (real) HUD footage in that film though, so I'll give 'em that! 🤣
0:04 -- Man, that first sentence killed me - hilarious!
As for the close formation in Dunkirk , This is very accurate. The British/Allied fighter pilots dispensed with flying in tight formation in combat areas during the early days of battle of Britain which started 2 months after Dunkirk. Tight formation flying cost a lot of aircraft and so new wider formations consisting leads and wing men were invented that broke apart during battle. .