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11/6/2011 8:53:23 AM
As a companion to the Aviation Books thread, let's list our favorite aviation movies.
I'll start with two from one of Hollywood's greatest men, Jimmy Stewart.
The Spirit of St. Louis. I like the pioneering spirit in aviation in that day. A man with a vision, who was able to see it come to fruition in the face of opposition and discouragement.
Flight of the Phoenix. I really like his attitude in this one. Especially when he was using the starter cartidges to "clear the carbs", leaving just one for starting the engine.
I'll start with two from one of Hollywood's greatest men, Jimmy Stewart.
The Spirit of St. Louis. I like the pioneering spirit in aviation in that day. A man with a vision, who was able to see it come to fruition in the face of opposition and discouragement.
Flight of the Phoenix. I really like his attitude in this one. Especially when he was using the starter cartidges to "clear the carbs", leaving just one for starting the engine.
11/6/2011 9:21:24 AM
The original movie Airport
Fate is the Hunter
Fate is the Hunter
11/6/2011 5:00:37 PM
The Right Stuff
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Flyboys
Top Gun
Iron Eagle
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Flyboys
Top Gun
Iron Eagle
11/6/2011 5:13:04 PM
12 O'Clock High
Flying Leathernecks
Top Gun
Tora Tora Tora
One Six Right
Flying Leathernecks
Top Gun
Tora Tora Tora
One Six Right
11/6/2011 5:17:49 PM
Airplane!
The Right Stuff
The Final Countdown wasn't bad at all, used to love it as a kid
The Right Stuff
The Final Countdown wasn't bad at all, used to love it as a kid
11/6/2011 5:31:18 PM
Tuskegee Airmen
11/6/2011 5:34:11 PM
11/6/2011 7:57:34 PM
The Battle of Britain
11/6/2011 8:17:42 PM
Polk County Pot Plane
11/6/2011 8:19:57 PM
Strategic Air Command
Bombers B52
Bombers B52
11/6/2011 9:20:57 PM
Blue Max
Waldo Pepper
Waldo Pepper
11/6/2011 10:21:57 PM
Originally Posted By RED_5:
Strategic Air Command
Strategic Air Command
This!
One Six Right!
11/6/2011 10:32:40 PM
Flight of the Intruder
11/6/2011 10:37:04 PM
Soul Plane
Snakes on a Plane
Snakes on a Plane
11/7/2011 1:48:34 AM
Originally Posted By CFII:
Flight of the Intruder
Flight of the Intruder
Ah yes, forgot about that one. Great flying action there.
11/7/2011 2:29:05 AM
Air America
11/7/2011 3:08:02 AM
Originally Posted By QUIB:
Air America
Air America
Theres an old face!
11/7/2011 8:29:18 AM
Originally Posted By JustinOK34:
Ah yes, forgot about that one. Great flying action there.
Originally Posted By CFII:
Flight of the Intruder
Flight of the Intruder
Ah yes, forgot about that one. Great flying action there.
I bought that movie just for the Sky Raider scenes
11/7/2011 8:37:23 AM
"The Gypsy Moths" and "Fandango" are couple with a skydiving bent.
11/7/2011 9:04:39 AM
11/7/2011 9:32:31 AM
Old film...Lady Takes a Flyer-Romance but very well done aviation
A view from the top. Also kind of a chick flic but if you want to know what it's like to fly for a regional airline...they had an inside source
Pandora's Clock/Medusa's Child-Made for TV films based on John Nance books. When they take the time to get ILS freq's right it's gotta be good.
John Wayne in Jet Pilot. Cheesey movie but Chuck Yeager himself did the stunts
Bridges at To-Ko-Ri. F9F Panthers. Need I say more
ka
ps, Forgot to add...The Day All Hell Broke Lose. FAA windshear training film. Airline guys sit through this every year in recurrent. It's got the guy from DiTec Morgage narrating.
A view from the top. Also kind of a chick flic but if you want to know what it's like to fly for a regional airline...they had an inside source
Pandora's Clock/Medusa's Child-Made for TV films based on John Nance books. When they take the time to get ILS freq's right it's gotta be good.
John Wayne in Jet Pilot. Cheesey movie but Chuck Yeager himself did the stunts
Bridges at To-Ko-Ri. F9F Panthers. Need I say more
ka
ps, Forgot to add...The Day All Hell Broke Lose. FAA windshear training film. Airline guys sit through this every year in recurrent. It's got the guy from DiTec Morgage narrating.
11/7/2011 10:03:39 AM
High Road To China
11/7/2011 10:32:14 AM
The Hunters––1958
Korea––Great flying scenes, F-84Fs as the MiGs
Korea––Great flying scenes, F-84Fs as the MiGs
11/7/2011 12:05:56 PM
There's a movie I bought that my grandmother recommended to me. I haven't watch it yet; it has Errol Flynn in it and I think it's called "Dive Bomber."
11/7/2011 12:37:31 PM
Memphis Belle
Always (sure its a sappy love story also, but I like the flying in it)
Always (sure its a sappy love story also, but I like the flying in it)
11/7/2011 1:10:05 PM
A Piece of Cake. A few years after this aired on PBS as a series, I found a copy of the book at the annual book fair. I enjoyed both.
Here's a web site with a pile of movies. I've seen many of them, and forgotten about many : http://www.coastcomp.com/av/fltline2/avmovie.htm
Last week, the local PBS showed Barnstormer. I used to pal with one of the pilots in this movie, back in the 80's. I didn't get to see the entire show, but it surely made me pine for a Cub or a Hatz Classic.
11/7/2011 2:17:56 PM
"The Right Stuff" most definitely. I like seeing the real Yeager appearing in the scenes at Pancho's.
I'm probably sticking my neck out here. My wife has a copy of "Always." Forgetting all the cheesy, new-agey, chick flick stuff, the fire bombing with old warbirds is pretty good, along with seeing John Goodman get taken out with a load of slurry.
"The Battle of Britain" is great. You'll never see so many of those planes together again. Early in the movie when the Germans are coming in to beat up the British airfield, one of the 109 pilots barely clears a fence. Great flying.
I'm probably sticking my neck out here. My wife has a copy of "Always." Forgetting all the cheesy, new-agey, chick flick stuff, the fire bombing with old warbirds is pretty good, along with seeing John Goodman get taken out with a load of slurry.
"The Battle of Britain" is great. You'll never see so many of those planes together again. Early in the movie when the Germans are coming in to beat up the British airfield, one of the 109 pilots barely clears a fence. Great flying.
11/7/2011 4:09:43 PM
Originally Posted By a555:
There's a movie I bought that my grandmother recommended to me. I haven't watch it yet; it has Errol Flynn in it and I think it's called "Dive Bomber."
There's a movie I bought that my grandmother recommended to me. I haven't watch it yet; it has Errol Flynn in it and I think it's called "Dive Bomber."
Plenty of great Technicolor goodness of SB2Us, TBDs, and F3Fs, with those incredible and colorful pre-war paint schemes in that one. USS Enterprise (CV-6) in also featured in the movie. It was filmed at the beginning of 1941, so it is also an important historical document.
11/7/2011 4:30:22 PM
I have to agree with most here. My tops are:
The Right Stuff
Memphis Belle
Flight of the Intruder
But I've got one to add that is an all time favorite: Midway.
I remember seeing that in the theater as a kid. The Sensurround at the beginning (Doolittle's Raid taking off from CV-8) scared the hell out of me.
E-95
The Right Stuff
Memphis Belle
Flight of the Intruder
But I've got one to add that is an all time favorite: Midway.
I remember seeing that in the theater as a kid. The Sensurround at the beginning (Doolittle's Raid taking off from CV-8) scared the hell out of me.
E-95
11/7/2011 6:39:56 PM
Originally Posted By Brohawk:
"The Right Stuff" most definitely. I like seeing the real Yeager appearing in the scenes at Pancho's.
"The Right Stuff" most definitely. I like seeing the real Yeager appearing in the scenes at Pancho's.
Wait...how'd I miss that!?
11/7/2011 7:26:10 PM
Originally Posted By a555:
Wait...how'd I miss that!?
Originally Posted By Brohawk:
"The Right Stuff" most definitely. I like seeing the real Yeager appearing in the scenes at Pancho's.
"The Right Stuff" most definitely. I like seeing the real Yeager appearing in the scenes at Pancho's.
Wait...how'd I miss that!?
"Y'all want some whiskey?"
11/7/2011 7:30:23 PM
What? No "Dawn Patrol"?
Turn the volume up and LISTEN. It's great.
Turn the volume up and LISTEN. It's great.
11/7/2011 7:31:43 PM
One of my favorites is Strategic Air Command with Jimmy Stewart. There is a scene where they go through a small man door in a larger hangar door. That hangar is the experimental flight hangar at Boeing Wichita, I used to work there.
11/7/2011 8:36:39 PM
Howard Hughes "Hells Angels",also "Jet Pilot"
11/7/2011 8:41:29 PM
Originally Posted By a555:
Wait...how'd I miss that!?
Originally Posted By Brohawk:
"The Right Stuff" most definitely. I like seeing the real Yeager appearing in the scenes at Pancho's.
"The Right Stuff" most definitely. I like seeing the real Yeager appearing in the scenes at Pancho's.
Wait...how'd I miss that!?
Watch for an older guy with a little grin of "I was there" on his face.
11/7/2011 8:48:24 PM
"Ride of the Valkyries" and "Helicopters" 
11/7/2011 8:49:13 PM
Firebirds.
11/7/2011 8:50:12 PM
Originally Posted By valheru21:
Firebirds.
Firebirds.
Sigh. Not that one.
11/7/2011 8:50:46 PM
Originally Posted By CFII:
Sigh. Not that one.
Originally Posted By valheru21:
Firebirds.
Firebirds.
Sigh. Not that one.
time for the ban hammer
11/7/2011 8:51:21 PM
Originally Posted By RED_5:
time for the ban hammer
Originally Posted By CFII:
Sigh. Not that one.
Originally Posted By valheru21:
Firebirds.
Firebirds.
Sigh. Not that one.
time for the ban hammer
11/8/2011 12:20:21 AM
Originally Posted By valheru21:
Originally Posted By RED_5:
time for the ban hammer
Originally Posted By CFII:
Sigh. Not that one.
Originally Posted By valheru21:
Firebirds.
Firebirds.
Sigh. Not that one.
time for the ban hammer
The ONLY good thing about that movie was Sean Young in a flight suit.....IF you could have shut her pie hole, it would have been better....
Otherwise, the movie SUCKED.....
11/8/2011 4:06:03 AM
Wow, too many to list right this second. One movie that I saw once back in the 80's that was the best SR-71 film I have ever seen, either then or now. It was called "Black Bird The Movie". I havn't seen it since, and would love to track down a copy on DVD. If anyone can help me find it I would be very grateful!!
Blackbird The Movie
Firebirds...Great spoof on Top Gun, using AH-64's, and Nick Cage...
Final Count down
SAC with Jimmy Stewart
Tagged for more later....
ETA: I didn't read through the posts, so sorry if I duped anyones movie. Just make it a +2.....
Blackbird The Movie
Firebirds...Great spoof on Top Gun, using AH-64's, and Nick Cage...
Final Count down
SAC with Jimmy Stewart
Tagged for more later....
ETA: I didn't read through the posts, so sorry if I duped anyones movie. Just make it a +2.....
11/8/2011 6:23:33 AM
Originally Posted By Brohawk:
Watch for an older guy with a little grin of "I was there" on his face.
Originally Posted By a555:
Wait...how'd I miss that!?
Originally Posted By Brohawk:
"The Right Stuff" most definitely. I like seeing the real Yeager appearing in the scenes at Pancho's.
"The Right Stuff" most definitely. I like seeing the real Yeager appearing in the scenes at Pancho's.
Wait...how'd I miss that!?
Watch for an older guy with a little grin of "I was there" on his face.
The guy serving Scott Crossfield the steak.
Oh, from the period pictures I've seen, Pancho was an UGLY chick.
ka
11/8/2011 6:28:25 AM
Originally Posted By kingairpilot:
The guy serving Scott Crossfield the steak.
Oh, from the period pictures I've seen, Pancho was an UGLY chick.
ka
Originally Posted By Brohawk:
Watch for an older guy with a little grin of "I was there" on his face.
Originally Posted By a555:
Wait...how'd I miss that!?
Originally Posted By Brohawk:
"The Right Stuff" most definitely. I like seeing the real Yeager appearing in the scenes at Pancho's.
"The Right Stuff" most definitely. I like seeing the real Yeager appearing in the scenes at Pancho's.
Wait...how'd I miss that!?
Watch for an older guy with a little grin of "I was there" on his face.
The guy serving Scott Crossfield the steak.
Oh, from the period pictures I've seen, Pancho was an UGLY chick.
ka
Good thing she had a winning personality.
While the movie "The Right Stuff" was great, I highly recommend the book.
11/8/2011 8:24:57 AM
Pilots, booze, aviation groupies, booze. Pancho's sounds like heaven
11/8/2011 10:52:32 AM
Originally Posted By kingairpilot:
The guy serving Scott Crossfield the steak.
Oh, from the period pictures I've seen, Pancho was an UGLY chick.
ka
Originally Posted By Brohawk:
Watch for an older guy with a little grin of "I was there" on his face.
Originally Posted By a555:
Wait...how'd I miss that!?
Originally Posted By Brohawk:
"The Right Stuff" most definitely. I like seeing the real Yeager appearing in the scenes at Pancho's.
"The Right Stuff" most definitely. I like seeing the real Yeager appearing in the scenes at Pancho's.
Wait...how'd I miss that!?
Watch for an older guy with a little grin of "I was there" on his face.
The guy serving Scott Crossfield the steak.
Oh, from the period pictures I've seen, Pancho was an UGLY chick.
ka
Which of these two Pancho Barnes are you speaking of? Hint: One is the REAL Pancho Barnes and the other is Valerie Bertinelli playing Pancho Barnes . . . Really close, ain't it?
11/8/2011 10:58:44 AM
Don't forget all of the movies listed here
11/8/2011 11:51:18 AM
Originally Posted By kingairpilot:
The guy serving Scott Crossfield the steak.
Oh, from the period pictures I've seen, Pancho was an UGLY chick.
ka
Originally Posted By Brohawk:
Watch for an older guy with a little grin of "I was there" on his face.
Originally Posted By a555:
Wait...how'd I miss that!?
Originally Posted By Brohawk:
"The Right Stuff" most definitely. I like seeing the real Yeager appearing in the scenes at Pancho's.
"The Right Stuff" most definitely. I like seeing the real Yeager appearing in the scenes at Pancho's.
Wait...how'd I miss that!?
Watch for an older guy with a little grin of "I was there" on his face.
The guy serving Scott Crossfield the steak.
Oh, from the period pictures I've seen, Pancho was an UGLY chick.
ka
I've seen photos of Pancho when she was young, and she could hold her own. But that ship sailed when she discarded her society upbringing and took up with pilots and other ne'er do wells. She was independent, and by God, she was going to stay independent.
I have a feeling both Yeager and Hoover have stories about Pancho that they've never told to anyone except a close circle of friends that were likely there, too.
11/8/2011 3:18:40 PM
Married 5 or 6 times as well. Just goes to prove that even ugly women can get
a husband
a husband
