Culture
Several movies and TV series show the missing man formation.
- Courage Under Fire, with four fighters for a helicopter pilot
- The McConnell Story: Squadron with blank
- Several episodes of JAG (in the US Navy)
- Iron Eagle, requested over radio by the friend of a missing pilot
- Heroes: Season 4, Episode 14, "Upon This Rock", ends with a missing man formation over a funeral
- Babylon 5: The episode "Legacies" directly refers to the human traditions of the riderless horse and the missing man formation
- The Right Stuff
- Armageddon: Flyby at the end of the film. 6 fighters with 1 peeling away
- Transformers: Beast Wars: Flying Maximals after Dinobot's death (Code of Hero)
- Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War: 4 fighters with 1 peeling away following Captain Alvin "Chopper" Davenport's demise.
- The Red Baron (movie): The "Red Baron" does a fly-over for an enemy funeral, along with several of his friends.
Echoes of Honor, by David Weber, opens with a funeral in which this formation is performed by five Javelin Training Aircraft.
The AFOL Lego Community organized a Lego version of the Missing Man Formation with Lego Vic Vipers in honor of Nate "nnenn" Nielson, a popular AFOL who died in a car accident.
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“The time will come when the evil forms we have known can no more be organized. Man’s culture can spare nothing, wants all material. He is to convert all impediments into instruments, all enemies into power.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“If you’re anxious for to shine in the high esthetic line as a man
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You must lie upon the daisies and discourse in novel phrases of your
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The meaning doesn’t matter if it’s only idle chatter of a
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—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)