Final Countdown Dogfight Scene

My all time favorite aviation movie is,  The Final Countdown.   It was produced in 1980, and starred Kirk Douglass and the US Navy supercarrier Nimitz. Simple premise: what if a modern era US Navy carrier taskforce found itself in a time warp and ended up poised to resist the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor that triggered World War Two?

The scene that never fails to thrill involves World War Two era Japanese zero fighter aircraft attacking a defenseless cabin cruising yacht. 

The propeller driven zeros are then confronted by two modern era F-14 Tomcat fighter jet aircraft.  The Tomcat is now retired from duty, but 33 years ago, when The Final Countdown was made, it was the Navy's 'Top Gun' airborne, lethal weapon.
 
The thing I like about this aerial combat sequence is the morality dance at play  The zeros cravenly attack an unarmed civilian vessel and blow it up.  Enter the US Navy jets with vastly superior performance and the moral high ground to boot.  The overmatched, bad boy Zeros get what's coming to them. Not complicated; stirring music, good versus evil, designed to elicit cheering and emotion.

Japanese Zero Fighter

F-14 Tomcat Navy Fighter Jet

Here is a link to this very exciting movie example of aerial combat. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyjNInIH4Hw