They're speakin' jet driver shorthand, Billy. While doin' three axis navigation... they give new meaning to th' term "multitasking". :laugh:
I could ~almost~ feel the G-loads. Apparently the Major stitched that footage together, they didn't have a combat camera guy involved. It was all done with cameras like the one Nial uses to record his racing exploits. From a production viewpoint it was a bit amateurish but HOLY COW, they have GREAT air-to-air sequences! There is (or, was) a B-model airframe but I never got that ride. Only gig close was as back-seat baggage in F-4's on occasion.
I miss it.