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.
Read more about this topic: Missing Man Formation
Famous quotes containing the word culture:
“It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age of perversions of Dewey-style education: everyone gets a ribbon, and praise becomes a meaningless narcotic to soothe egoistic distemper.”
—Gerald Early (b. 1952)
“Let a man attain the highest and broadest culture that any American has possessed, then let him die by sea-storm, railroad collision, or other accident, and all America will acquiesce that the best thing has happened to him; that, after the education has gone far, such is the expensiveness of America, that the best use to put a fine person to is to drown him to save his board.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)