The Final Countdown Tomcat/Zero fight scene. ( Screaming of the Tomcat )

Scene from the movie The Final Countdown.
With Kirk Douglas, Martin Sheen, Katharine Ross etc……
A modern aircraft carrier is thrown back in time to 1941 near Hawaii, just hours before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

This is one of my favorite scene from this movie.
How the tomcats ( F14 ) play with the japanese zero`s.
A little detail: When an F-14 does a steep dive at 2:45 and pulls out just before crashing into the ocean while “playing” with one of the Zeroes, the “scream” the F-14 made was created by mixing the sound of the jet engines with the actual scream of the pilot’s wife when she saw that clip for the first time.

And: The Zeros and b/w Pearl Harbor attack footage were reused from Tora, Tora, Tora!

At last : During shooting of the opening shot where the CAG’s Tomcat is taking off from Pearl Harbor, the film crew actually underestimated the blast radius of the Tomcat’s exhaust and one of their cameras was blown over when the plane went to full afterburner, which resulted in the shot being filmed from a slightly different angle than originally planned.

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