Originally Posted by
chopper2004
Not quite ....
Under Siege movie was not based anything like Final Flight (bar take over of UsN warship and use nukes) ..no writing credits to Stephen Coonts
The appearance and subsequent destruction lol of CH-46 Sea Knight ( actually civilian Columbia Helicopters KV-107) , and there was no AH-1 but a CHI of an Ah-64A escorting another Sea Knight (which Captain Garza says it’s a CH-53E lifting off with SEAL reinforcements).
Thr F/A-18 pilot laughingly doesn’t appear to wear an LCJ lol!
Under Siege novel is good reminds me of Tom Clancys Clear And Present Danger about the drugs war. Jake is still a Captain and battling narco terrorists on the streets of the capitol. Interesting enough there’s an character in the book , an undercover narcotics cop called Harrison Ronald Ford a.k.a Zizzy.
cheers
I've always rather enjoyed Tom Clancy's work - more so his own earlier stuff than the more recent work that he either co-authored or was written by someone else under the Clancy 'brandname'. That said, if you want to talk Clancy and aviation then it has to be Red Storm Rising which has an early guest appearance by the F-117, albeit not named as such. He was always ahead of his time, and his graps of detail was both enjoyable to read and in some instances wonderous as to where he picked it up from. Hunt for Red October, for example, was reportedly on the end of an attempt to get it banned by the USN as the level of detail made them think they had a leak somewhere (they did, just not in Clancy - see 'Walker class sub and it comes up with Akula Class which Walker helped equip thanks to his personal efforts at building relations with the Soviet Union!) but it was Reagan's comments about how much he enjoyed reading Red October than convinced the USN to drop it. Incidentally, Red October was based in part on real life events, but about the defection of a Baltic Fleet (if memory serves) Krivak ASW frigate.
But getting back to the general theme - yes the Final Countdown is an enjoyable bit of nonsense with some fun flying scenes, but if you want more recent more impressive flying then I heartily recommend We Were Soldiers which has more flying in it than you can shake a stick at from the initial air assault in the the Ia Drang valley through to napalm laden CAS and JTAC action later on as they are pinned down and in danger of being overrun. And it's definitely a little more graphic and less family friendly than the Final Countdown before you settle down to some family Easter viewing!