The sky-high aircraft and aviation thread

Aces High and Coming Home come to mind too.

A different shape every step I take A different mind every step of the line

Sabaton has a few songs about pilots.

@Jones:

Nice, I really like it! Particularly those guitar riffs.

@Catfish:

Aces High is pretty good, yeah. Haven't heard the other one, unfortunately.

@Rosvo:

Oh? Mind posting one of them, if you don't mind? Pretty please with a cherry on top?

Locking you up on radar since '09

Sure.

Would you lile a song about the Night Witches, a song about foreign pilots in the Battle for Britain or a song about the Charlie Brown/Franz Stigler incident?

Sabaton also do great non-aircraft stuff; my favourite is "Uprising", the link to which you can find in my sig (2nd down). 40:1 is excellent too, as is "Union (Slopes of St. Benedict)".

Allow me:

• "Night Witches" about the 46th Taman Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment.
• "No Bullets Fly" about Charlie Brown and Franz Stigler.
• "Firestorm" about strategic bombing during WWII.
• "Midway". Guess.

But "Aces in Exile" is the all-time great:

edited 28th Aug '14 3:28:23 PM by Achaemenid

Schild und Schwert der Partei

There's also Far From the Fame, which is kind of related to planes.

edited 28th Aug '14 3:31:32 PM by Rosvo1

Oh god, Aces in Exile. I made a Strike Witches AMV from it. >.<

Also, CROSSPOST from the Military Thread in OTC:

BBC: Aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious retires

"Yup. That tasted purple."

Well, there goes old Lusty. Didn't quite make the Falklands^note there's a Sabaton song for those too by the way, Back in Control but jumped in ever so quickly to relieve the ships on station.

Completely relevant Youtube embed: About Bruce flying them all home on their tour plane, all united in being there above the clouds, 'over borders that divide the earthbound tribes' and all that. Good stuff.

edited 28th Aug '14 3:54:11 PM by Catfish42

A different shape every step I take A different mind every step of the line

Deadbeat: Your shame shall know no bounds :P

Who watches the watchmen?

I wonder if we're gonna start getting a good view of what the Russian Air Force can do in the next few days. Reports are saying the RGF has crossed the border into Ukraine.

I know they got a fuckton of aircraft near the border like the Su-24.

"Allah may guide their bullets, but Jesus helps those who aim down the sights."

As embarrassing shit goes, that AMV is very low on the scale.

"Yup. That tasted purple."

Deadbeat: I'm just yanking your chain metaphorically speaking. Not like it is still up there right?

Who watches the watchmen?

Eh.

"Yup. That tasted purple."

Lol. Time to scour youtube :P

Speaking of Anime what are some of the more interesting air plane/aircraft oriented anime?

Who watches the watchmen?

Define interesting.

Or else I'll throw things like Stratos 4 and its comet-intercepting TSR-2s at you.

edited 28th Aug '14 4:55:07 PM by Deadbeatloser22

"Yup. That tasted purple."

Hmmm. I liked The Last Exiles and Area 88. I found those interesting. Since we are talking anime light on the fan service if there is any.

edited 28th Aug '14 5:08:57 PM by TuefelHundenIV

Who watches the watchmen?

I liked Area 88 personally It was kind of neat. There are two that I am looking at that look potentially interesting and have a sort of Diesel Punk feel to them. The Princess and the Pilot and one a friend suggested 'The Pilots Love Song'

Who watches the watchmen?

Both pretty good, the former significantly more-so than the latter; they also share a setting so if you watch both you might want to go with Princess and the Pilot first(it's not that critical though).

There's always Last Exile.

"Allah may guide their bullets, but Jesus helps those who aim down the sights."

Already noted it and have already seen it.

Who watches the watchmen?

One of the Macross animes is basically Top Gun, so much so that there's a really ancient AMV that splices dialogue from that movie onto the animation and it fits without needing to splice in other scenes. It also has one of the best effects I've ever seen in an AMV where Maverick and Goose do that flying upside-down trick to the Macross pilots; it's kinda cool to see a Veritech fighter and an F-14 flying together, all the same.

Of course, don't you know anything about ALCHEMY?!- Twin clones of Ivan the Great

For Area 88, there is the original OVA, and the newer TV series, which were substantially different in tone (owing much probably to when they were made more than anything else).

SDF Macross presumably counts, especially the first episode of Macross Zero which included some hot Tomcat on Fulcrum action (before the transforming mecha showed up and made the whole thing go off the rails)

^^ I wonder if building a VF-1 Valkyrie is possible with today's technology. Yes even the Gerwalk and Battroid modes.

"Allah may guide their bullets, but Jesus helps those who aim down the sights."