but the aircraft tied to the film’s famous bit of dialogue is the Northrop F-5 Freedom Fighter. “I love the smell of napalm in the morning,” Kilgore declares after a five-ship of F-5s ...

The aircraft ... on the model. Initially, the A-1 featured four wing-mounted 20mm cannons as well as the capability to carry up to 8,000 lbs. of rockets, bombs, gun pods, and napalm canisters ...