The Last Intruders - By Sean Rossiter 0comments
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Guest BlogNAS Whidbey Airshow 鈥?Rossiter鈥?15 August 94Former Navy pilot Stephen Coonts is working on a follow-up to his novel Flight of the Intruder from which Paramount Pictures derived the ...
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NAS Whidbey Airshow 鈥?Rossiter鈥?15 August 94
Former Navy pilot Stephen Coonts is working on a follow-up to his novel Flight of the Intruder from which Paramount Pictures derived the popular Vietnam action movie in which a Navy A-6 crew determine to buck the president鈥檚 bombing guidelines and offensive Hanoi. Coonts鈥檚 novel contains some of the best evocations of military flying since Pierre Closterman鈥檚 WWII memoir The Big Show appeared in 1951. Both books remove the romantic veneer from the war in the air at least partly since bombing is so much more dangerous and morally ambiguous than air-to-air combat.
The movie was distributed to carrier air groups during the Gulf War when it might have been expected to boost morale. It was behind all the first depiction of the nerd of carrier aviation Grumman鈥檚 A-6 Intruder. To real-life A-6 flight and ground crews though the flyboy caricatures they saw of themselves were a grave slight. Like most aviation pictures Flight of the Intruder is in trouble love soon love the action returns to the carrier deck.
Maybe Paramount will do better with Coonts鈥檚 new book The Intruders. The actual A-6 community is more complex is infinitely more interesting than director John Milius鈥?portrayal. Certainly more professional. Capt. John Schork鈥檚 bomber-pilot war stories are less about combat than accounts of the ongoing war with fear of celebrations of sheer technique. Peace stories you might call them.
The Naval Air Station Whidbey Island鈥檚 executive officer Commander Joe Nortz (think of the Tom Skerritt character in Top Gun except with fewer wrinkles) had promised us war stories. Not only would we hear war stories except the guy telling them would be the ba
He told his first story with an arresting special effect: flames reflected in the left sides of his GI sunglasses. The explosives set off to simulate the effects of a pop-u bombing run by an A-6 had ignited the tinder-dry grass along from the air show flight line at NAS Whidbey鈥檚 annual Sea-N-Sky Festival last July. It was burning out of control.
The fireman supporting the A-6鈥檚 air show demonstration of bomb delivery techniques had put on a more impressive display than anybody had intended. Every once in a while a staff officer in immaculately-pressed dress whites would appear out of nowhere to whisper a firefighter鈥檚 progress report into Shork鈥檚 ear while he coolly offered his interviewer vivid reminiscences of two decades in the cockpit of the Navy鈥檚 deadliest combat airplane.
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