Willem Dafoe Flight of the Intruder Prep Navy News This Week

To prepare for his role as Lieutenant Commander Virgil "Tiger" Cole in the movie "Flight of the Intruder", Actor Willem Dafoe went through a pilot survival school program at NAS Barber's
Point, Hawaii. The film was released in 1991. This was a piece produced for Navy News This Week.
From wikipedia: "The A-6 Intruder is an American twin jet-engine, mid-wing attack aircraft built by Grumman Aerospace."
Produced/reported/edited Cathy Hines; videographer was either Tony Ozoa or Scott Ginkins.

Navy Broadcasting Service Fleet Support Detachment Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
A6 ejection seat training and water floatation survival .

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[josephdupont]

Dafoe is really cool.. i loved him in this part.

[fushheads]

Willem Dafoe is so cool, his gay characters seem straight. 

[bc9021010001]

This movie cost $35,000,000 and made less than $15,000,000. Why make crap like this?

[PInk77W1]

this guy can really play a bad guy good

[FYTYTY]

I totally forgot Dafoe was in this movie!

[sucutraco1]

thanks for sharing this.

[1939PlymouthRatRod]

I love him in this and the start of a wonderful career.

[chuckolove]

I lived at Barbers Point during the middle Nineteen-Sixties. It was a cool place back then. The beaches there, back then, were beautiful. WWII refuge was still strewn up and down the shoreline. Cement pillboxes; rusted-out vehicles. Gun mounts. The old, dome-shaped persuit-plane hangers were still there, at Barbers Point, back then. Hangers still had WWII gear in them, back during the Sixties. My Father used to bring me home real cool stuff. Barbers Point was cool, back in the Sixties.

[galatian5]

I loved his portrayal of Virgil Cole. He was like the Cool Hand Luke of pilots.

[dobravery]

@GomerSanchez You just set yourself up for a Flight of the Intruder quote. Lt. Jake Grafton: "Fighter pukes make movies. Bomber pilots make... HISTORY!"

Both movies are great when you consider that most movies since are strictly computer animation/CGI for the flight scenes.

[GomerSanchez]

@thedreamdealer Wow I wouldn't go that far, I love Willem and hate Cruise but let's be real here...Top Gun is and was THE fighter pilot movie.