Blue Angels: A Year In The Life
by Brian J. Kelly
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Director: Brian J. KellyDVD: Region Code 1
Format: AC-3, Anamorphic, Box set, CLV, Color, Digital Sound, Dolby, Letterboxed, NTSC, Surround Sound, Widescreen
Running Time: 206 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-08-02
Studio: Henninger Productions
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DVD Review: Great insight into the reality of flying airshows in fast jets
Summary: 5 Stars
This is an excellent DVD - the resolution and audio are superb and showed up brilliantly on my 72" television. If you've just bought a big plasma or rear projector, you'll love this 2 disc set.
But it's not about production values. The story is also compelling and gives you a real insight into the way these guys think, how they train, are selected, what can go wrong, the enormous amount of preparation and maintenance that goes into keeping a team such as the Blue Angels at the top of their game.
The pilots come across as real people - they may be talented and presentable, but they are also human and make errors and find their roles stressful and demanding.
The video of the routines, both from the ground and in the air, is amazing - it goes right inside the diamond formation, and you realize just how close these planes actually fly - a hair's breadth from disaster at times.
I bought the original Rolling Thunder in the 80s and on a scale of 1 to 100, Rolling Thunder is about 5 and Blue Angels: A Year in the Life is about 250.
Would recommend it to flying enthusiasts and lovers of military life in particular, but also to anybody who has a casual interest in what makes special people such as fighter pilots tick. If you want just airshow porn, it's probably going to bore you at times. But if you want some more insight, it's hard to go past this 2-disc set.
Description of Blue Angels: A Year In The Life
Henninger Productions presents Blue Angels: A Year In The Life, a four part series that follows the lives of the Navy?s elite flight demonstration team, from starting as "newbies," to the end of the air show season, all shot in High Definition video. Each year as new pilots are selected, they must endure a long and arduous process of training, studying, and team building, taking pilots to their physical and mental limits. But it is all worth it the day they are "crested" and recite the Angels? creed, knowing soon they will take off to perform the most extreme and exhilarating air performance in the world.Each episode follows the team as it prepares for its upcoming Summer 2004 season. We watch as nervous new applicants wait to hear whether they have made the team, and see the heartbreak of those who did not. We jump into the cockpit with the team as they spend the winter constantly practicing the awe-inspiring tricks that will dazzle audiences. And we follow them through show season and witness the aerobatic stunts they have worked so long and hard to perfect, ending the series as the new batch of recruits join the team.
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