American Fighter Pilot

[Stephen_RVS]

Anyone remember this show? It followed some F15 pilots through training, I was really into it but they cancled it at the worst time, End of 2nd episode where guy Is making a emergancy landing (no brakes). Then they cancled it. It was supposed to re-air later in that summer, but it didnt. Does anyone know where I can download this? or if it will be on tv?

[Stephen_RVS]

Anyone remember this show? It followed some F15 pilots through training, I was really into it but they cancled it at the worst time, End of 2nd episode where guy Is making a emergancy landing (no brakes). Then they cancled it. It was supposed to re-air later in that summer, but it didnt. Does anyone know where I can download this? or if it will be on tv?

[PKonsor]

I think there was a topic on this before, but I don't remember which forum. As far as I know you can't get the show anywhere, but there is something about a movie. I don't know if they made a film with the footage for the show or what, but the movie is called eagle driver. Check it out here..
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1585850225/qid=1082604376/sr=8-7/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i7_xgl27/104-5918462-6555106?v=glance&s=video&n=507846

[AFACadet]

Well, that video is not related. The movie itself was supposed to come out in the 99-02 timeframe and it was called "Eagle Drivers" (with an s at the end).

The "reality" TV craze was going on, so CBS bought all rights. The guys who made eagle drivers were actually sorta happy because they shot a whole bunch of footage that the movie could not use. They spliced it together to get the TV series.


The show got miserable ratings and like stated, was cancelled after two weeks.


For a while, they were going to sell the DVD set for something like 70 dollars, but the site went down months ago and no one has heard anything about it since.


Unless someone gets the rights to the footage, to appears it was a wasted effort that will never see the light of day... err TVs or movie screens.



If you were wondering about Todd Giggy, he made it. Some USAFA cadets bummped into him when they were at an AB in the UK where he's flying the Albinos--but he still has the hair.

[Wolfman_96th]

Man, what a waste of great access. Imagine what Discovery could have done with that footage. I just bought the BUD/S Class 234 DVD set, and it is awesome. No BS cut&paste scenes, just showing it like it is (minimal commentary from the TV people as well).

[IguanaKing]

Wow!! http://ubbxforums.ubi.com/infopop/emoticons/icon_eek.gif Giggy made it?! The last I saw of him on that program, he was something like one sim flight away from being cut. What is it that the other guys called him again? NAPpy or something like that? I remember the acronym stood for New Age Pilot.

"God put me on Earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now, I'm so far behind, I'll never die."

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[T-Bone_]

Its too bad. I've always wanted an inside look into what fighter training for our pilots is like.


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[eaglestohercs]

I met Giggy in St Louis at the Boeing simulators...yeah, lol...he still has the hair.

[eaglestohercs]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by T-Bone_:
Its too bad. I've always wanted an inside look into what fighter training for our pilots is like.

<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

lol...it's 2 1/2 years of ***pain.