Real Genius 1985
When teenage geniuses Mitch Taylor and Chris Knight, working on an advanced laser project, learn that the military wants to use it as a weapon, they decide to thwart the plan.
When teenage geniuses Mitch Taylor and Chris Knight, working on an advanced laser project, learn that the military wants to use it as a weapon, they decide to thwart the plan.
This short film looks at the purpose and methods of the U.S. Air Force, and the difficulties of getting along with civilian neighbors. The story involves members of an Air Force base proving their worth to the mayor of a nearby town who would like to see them gone due to noise pollution.
Pilots, bombardiers, and navigators tell their own story of the air war over North Vietnam through on-the-spot interviews filmed between actual combat missions. Tension-packed pilot briefings, ground preparations of B-52 bombers and F-105 fighters, and exciting take-off and landing scenes highlight the action sequences of this film.