“When we have mastered these tactics, we will use them to seek out and confront the forces of evil and kill 'em deader than hell!”

In 1986 Top Gun took the breath away of film fans around the world, but the movie had one noticeable flaw: no helicopters.

Fortunately, that error was corrected in 1990 with Fire Birds – Wings of the Apache. It took the Top Gun’s formula, added helicopters and a scenery chewing Nicolas Cage to make cinematic gold (or possibly tin).

On episode #8 Exploding Helicopter is joined by Nick Rehak from French Toast Sunday to discuss whether Fire Birds is the greatest exploding helicopter film of all-time.