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WATCH: The Screaming Eagles Crush Top Gun with Prop Gun

Prop Gun is One of the Best Movie Spoofs We Have Ever Seen There are some great gag films out there. Class videos are sometimes seriously entertaining too. We’ve managed…

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This Is Where The US Navy Trains Their Very Own “Right Stuff”

The Navy Wanted You to Know All About Pax River After Watching the Film “Test Port.” Who Served There? When the film “Testport” was produced in 1971, Naval Air Station…

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PatRon FIVE Has Been Protecting The West From Hostiles For 80 Years!

This video was produced for a Patrol Squadron FIVE (VP-5) Heritage Reunion event by the Mad Foxes. It traces the history of VP-5 from original establishment in 1937 to the…

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True #Avgeek Challenge: How Many Navy Planes Do You See In This Film?

Test Your Aircraft Recognition Skills With This 1970 Navy Film “Flight: The Romance of Naval Aviation” is a film produced by the United States Navy (USN) and distributed in 1970.…

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Hunting Submarines From The Air Hasn’t Changed A Whole Lot in 50 Years

The US Navy promotional film “ASW To Catch a Shadow” was produced by Lockheed and the United States Navy during what the audience is led to believe was an operational…

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Canada Took the Best of The S-3 Viking and P-3 Orion and Created This Unique Bird

The CP-140 is the Canadian Do-It-All Version of the Lockheed P-3 Maritime Patrol Platform On March 22nd 1979, the prototype Lockheed CP-140 Aurora took to the skies for the first…