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Area 88: Act I - The Blue Skies of Betrayal VHS cover.

Movie (1985)
Japanese title: エリア88 ACT I : 裏切りの大空

Starring:
Kaneto Shiozawa (Shin Kazama)
Iemasa Kayumi (McCoy)
Kei Tomiyama (Mickey Simon)
Sakiko Tamagawa (Ryoko Tsugumo)

Shin Kazama, tricked and forced into flying for the remote country of Aslan, can only escape the hell of war by earning money for shooting down enemy planes or die trying. Through the course of the series, Shin must deal with the consequences of killing and friends dying around him as tries to keep his mind on freeing himself from this nightmare.

Other works in this series:
Area 88: Act II - The Requirements of Wolves
Area 88: Act III - Burning Mirage

Note: This is an animated work. The aircraft shown in it are therefore not actual aircraft. However, where a reasonable depiction of an actual aircraft has been created, it has been identified as best as possible.


Vought F-8 Crusader[]

00 is the most seen aircraft.

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Cockpit of the late variant (F-8E and higher).

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But another Crusader is quickly seen by night :

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Douglas A-4 Skyhawk[]

Late variant (upgraded E, N, ...) with the fuselage spine full of avionics behind the cockpit.
Note the straight refueling probe of the first model.

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And now the other type of refueling probe.

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Flight Simulator[]

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English Electric Lightning[]

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Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 Fishbed[]

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Cessna 310[]

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Unidentified Helicopter[]

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Beechcraft 65 Queen Air[]

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Cessna 172 Skyhawk[]

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North American F-100 Super Sabre[]

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Northrop F-5 Freedom Fighter[]

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Boeing 747[]

Boeing 747 of Pan Am-Pan American World Airways and JAL-Japan Air Lines.

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Bell UH-1D Iroquois "Huey"[]

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Grumman F-14 Tomcat[]

F-14s bombing ? The dedicated variant (the 'Bombcat') should flew only in 1992.

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