Missing Man Formation - Culture

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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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