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Read more: http://www.firstshowing.net/2009/12/08/watch-this-test-footage-from-dog-fighting-movie-war-birds/#ixzz0ZBToIPLO

Warbirds

“The story follows an Air Force veteran-turned-reckless airshow re-enactment pilot who gets pulled into the world of illegal aerial combat. Shooting is scheduled for next summer in Michigan using real airplanes and aerial sequences. War Birds will be directed by first-time filmmaker Michael Chait. The script was originally written by Josh Staman and Bryan Binder, but writers J. Todd Harris (Bottle Shock) and Richard Jefferies (Tron Legacy) will be polishing the final draft. Oscar winning Titanic cinematographer Russell Carpenter (of 21 and The Ugly Truth recently) will serve as a visual consultant as well. Expect this in theaters by 2011.” (firstshowing.net)

some very nice footage here, along with some awful explosion/crash special effects - though I’m sure this is very much a test/proof reel

(one of my favourite crash f/x has always been the Russian helicopter at the start of A View to a Kill - here (4:35 in))

December 09, 2009, 4:32pm

Lt. Colonel Jon “Huggy” Huggins in a U-2 chase car

December 08, 2009, 6:34pm

today

December 07, 2009, 10:24pm

Cessna 208B Super cargomaster, France, 2007
photo by Willem Honders

December 04, 2009, 5:09pm

Airbus A300B4-608ST Super Transporter, Hamburg, 2005
photo by Alastair T. Gardiner

my favourite image of this aircraft is still this one, though

December 04, 2009, 12:16am

Beriev Be-200ChS
photo by Fyodor Borisov

December 03, 2009, 11:03pm

Beriev Be-6 monument in Eupatoria, Ukraine
(Google Maps view)

December 03, 2009, 9:13pm

nobody died! friday #42: B-1B Lancer wheels-up landing, Diego Garcia, May 8th 2006

November 13, 2009, 11:54pm

nobody died! friday: #39 Tanir Air Ilyushin 76TD catches fire whilst being loaded, Congo, 2007
(photo by “Serge”)

November 13, 2009, 8:20pm

nobody died! friday #34: Pilatus Britten-Norman BN-2B-27 Islander, Durban, 2005
(photo by Gary Shephard)

November 06, 2009, 6:23pm

Boeing B-17F “Black Jack / The Joker’s Wild” of the 43rd Bombardment Group, 63rd Bombardment Squadron. Ditched on the way back home from a mission in 1943 at Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea. Rediscovered in 1986

October 26, 2009, 7:21pm

English Electric Lightning F6 “XP693” Nose section being towed to the Thundercity hangar. Cape Town, 2003. This aircraft was restored and is now one of only four remaining airworthy Lightnings, all in the same collection.
(photo by Sven De Bevere)

October 01, 2009, 9:16pm

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21SPS, Netherlands, 2007
“This former German MiG is the centrepiece of a lasergaming dungeon near Amsterdam. A skull is piloting the aircraft, and another one is riding on the pitot tube! Many thanks to the kind people of Silverstone Laser Games for the photo opportunity”
(photo and words by Peter de Jong)

September 26, 2009, 8:21pm

America West Airlines Boeing 757-2S7, 2003
“A one second exposure over Phoenix turning final for runway 26. (Nikon Coolpix 4500).”
photo by Jeremy Irish

September 26, 2009, 6:05pm

nobody died! friday #31: Piper Cherokee, Meadow Lake Airport, Dec 7th 2006

(the pilot was slightly injured climbing down from the tree. this incident was also the subject of a famous viral email, with a photoshopped image)

September 25, 2009, 6:42pm