Everything about Iron Eagle totally explained
Iron Eagle is a
1986 action film about a teenage boy named Doug Masters (
Jason Gedrick) who commandeered two American
F-16 fighter jets, embarking on a heroic rescue mission to save his father (
Tim Thomerson), a
prisoner of war being held in a hostile, unnamed Middle-Eastern nation. The film also stars Academy Award winner
Louis Gossett, Jr. as Col. Charles 'Chappy' Sinclair and features the hit songs "
One Vision" (by Queen) and "
We're Not Gonna Take It" (by Twisted Sister) as part of its soundtrack.
The US Air Force has a long-standing policy about not cooperating on any film involving the theft of an aircraft. Consequently, the film-makers turned to the Israeli Air Force for the necessary aerial sequences. The
delta-winged hostile aircraft featured in the movie are identified as
MiG-23s, but are actually
IAI Kfirs, a
Dassault Mirage variant flown by the
Israeli Air Force (The
US Navy and
US Marine Corps used to use Kfirs as adversary aircraft, simulating Soviet aircraft).
Iron Eagle was released in the same year as another popular aviation-based action film,
Top Gun, thus forcing a shift in release dates as to avoid competition at the
box office with each other. The film was followed by three sequels:
Iron Eagle II, and
Iron Eagle IV.
The movie holds
cult classic status among action movie and aerial-combat fans.
In Popular Culture
The film was referenced on an episode of
Family Guy In
Movin' Out (Brian's Song), Brian reveals the plot for his novel (entitled "Faster Than the Speed of Love") which turns out to be identical to the plot of this film, which Brian had never heard of.
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