Bat*21

Factual error: Besides the F5s, Clarke also flies around in a white FAC plane... pretty sure those would have been shades of green/brown, not white.

Factual error: The two white jets they keep showing doing bombing runs, multiple times throughout this movie, are Air Force training jets, not combat aircraft.

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Suggested correction: The aircraft are F-5 Tigers... They are absolutely combat aircraft.

I looked up the F-5 Tiger, and those planes do look similar to what I saw in the movie, but also very similar to films of training jets I've seen. Whatever those things were in the movie, they carried no bombs or missiles; they just flew over, and then stuff went off on the ground. https://www.military.com/equipment/f-5-tigershark.

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OK - I think I found the answer - the F-5 Tiger is the combat aircraft and the F-5 Tigershark is the training version. They look almost the same but not quite.

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Factual error: The two white jets they keep showing doing bombing runs, multiple times throughout this movie, are Air Force training jets, not combat aircraft.

roy sandefur

Upvote valid corrections to help move entries into the corrections section.

Suggested correction: The aircraft are F-5 Tigers... They are absolutely combat aircraft.

I looked up the F-5 Tiger, and those planes do look similar to what I saw in the movie, but also very similar to films of training jets I've seen. Whatever those things were in the movie, they carried no bombs or missiles; they just flew over, and then stuff went off on the ground. https://www.military.com/equipment/f-5-tigershark.

roy sandefur

OK - I think I found the answer - the F-5 Tiger is the combat aircraft and the F-5 Tigershark is the training version. They look almost the same but not quite.

roy sandefur

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Col. George Walker: You know anything about golf, Clark?
Capt. Bartholomew Clark: No, sir. Golf wasn't big in my neighborhood.

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