Posted on 07/06/2013 4:42:52 PM PDT by ken5050
Well, the cable news networks are non stop with their coverage of the air crash in San Francisco. Looking at the pictures, it seems a miracle that the number of fatalities is so low. If there is one unintended consequence of this crash..at least we will be spared talk about Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman for the next few days. As the networks are talking aviation and nothing but, I thought it would be a slight diversion to discuss our favorite aviation themed movies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyf059psVew
Why can't they make films like this anymore?
"Well, that might be the smart play, Commander. Trouble is, I *want* that fourth carrier."
I nominate this for the best "plane under bridge" scene in history...
Ted Striker: My orders came through. My squadron ships out tomorrow. We’re bombing the storage depots at Daiquiri at 1800 hours. We’re coming in from the north, below their radar.
Elaine Dickinson: When will you be back?
Ted Striker: I can’t tell you that. It’s classified.
The Battle of Britain
Have not seen that one yet.
Absolutely.
Here is a primer for the full episode you linked to (for the uninitiated). Midair refueling, corn detasseling, and poopie suits for everyone!
The Doolittle raiders recently held their final reunion at Eglin AFB. I think there are only four left.
Sorry to say Thomas C Griffin, aged 96 died just before the reunion so there were three.
My favorite scene from “Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo” is when he finds out he is a father, and they start rocking that beautiful B-25 from side to side in the sky as they sing “Rock A Bye Baby”...:)
Next best scene is the going away party when the all sing “Deep in The Heart of Texas”...
Man, I love that movie.
The one with Jimmy Stewart and David McCallum.
Quentin Tarantino explains Top Gun
(Warning: lots of bad language)
There is a great book by Bob Greene about Paul Tibbetts called “Duty: A Father, His Son, and the Man Who Won the War”. I read it years ago...but bought it just last year or so. It had a whole new meaning after my father passed away. http://www.amazon.com/Duty-Father-His-Son-Man/dp/B000C4SILM
Officer and a Gentleman
Louis Gossett, Jr. was superb.
flight of the phoenix
Yes. It is an exciting movie...one of my favorites as well.
I wish Harrison Ford wasn’t such a brain-dead lefty, though.
Of course, there have been many other films with some great aviation stunts, footage, and ‘feel of flying’, but not really full aviation films.
What comes to mind are clips from Tora, Tora, Tora ; Midway; and depictions of the Battle of the Coral Sea.
Apocalypse Now’s infamous Ride of the Valkyries scene; Many World at War and Victory at Sea film cuts actual combat footage;
I sort of liked Jimmy Stewart’s ‘No Highway In The Sky’, which is somewhat apropos today with the Boeing 777 loss of its tail when it landed.
WINGS
HOT SHOTS
John Ford’s documentary on Midway
THE BRIDGES AT TOKO RI
The movie they show in the movie “Airplane”.
Officer and a Gentleman
Louis Gossett, Jr. was superb.
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Great movie. Thanks for the reminder.
All of the Larry “Buster” Crabbe Flash Gordon/Buck Rogers serials...
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