One of the finest modern-era aviation films: the dialogue is clunky, and in many ways could be regarded as a USAF recruiting film for adventurous young men - but - the flying sequences are brilliant, all done without special effects. It depicts a time when supersonic flight was just becoming a reality and the film is full of exotic, never to be repeated aircraft. The 'star' is the singular three-jet Martin XB 51 medium bomber, disguised as the Gilbert XF 120. What aircraft manufacturer today, even with its product in disguise, would permit it to be depicted as having structural weakness? And that sequence with the two F 94s and the braking parachute trial, was real, one of the most brilliant pieces of flying you'll ever see. Forget the dialogue, revel in the aviation.
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