Posted on 02/28/2014 10:54:30 AM PST by EveningStar
Firefox with Clint Eastwood. Pretty good movie.
No, I’m Roger Murdock.
I love it when Jimmy Lydon discovers - after all the whining he’s been doing - that the Duke has a family and children too!
...I mean wife and family.
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines.
You must include The High and the Mighty with John Wayne. No best airplane movie can be complete without this one.
Splash the Zeros. I say again, splash the Zeros.
I bet most people don't know what you(we) are talking about.
Great movie.I have a copy of it on VHS.
Awesome movie.
“Damn, the Japs are gonna do it again...”
How about the original flight of the phoenix
agree with original flight of the phoenix
That aircraft carrier could have won the war in Pacific all on it’s own.
Oh. forgot:
Flight of the Intruder
Bat 21
The High and the Mighty
Twelve O'Clock High
No Highway in the Sky
Airplane was not an "Airplane Movie." It was a comedy and one hell of a Comedy. For comedy it is near the top of my list. Leslie Nelson and Robert Stack were absolutely Brilliant. Airplane Movies. 1. Bridge at Toko Ri. Acting was Superb. The aircraft did what those aircraft could do at the time, no more and no less. The movie was patriotic as were those actors, i.e. William Holden, John Ford, Mickey Rooney etc. 2. Battle of Britain. No explanation needed. 3. Blue Max. Good actors, aircraft performing in battle situations that are realistic, good plot with intrigue and Ursela Andress was smoking ass hot as the countess, George Peppard as the ace but from a common background, he crossed the barriers between upper and lower class and paid for it with his life, George Mason as the aristocratic general trying to keep the whole damn mess in proper order. His last orders put things back to normal. George Peppard flew a new aircraft with a design defect known to the general but not George Peppard. 4. The original "Flight of the Phoneix" 5. Although nor an airplane, I will put Apollo 13 in the mix. Great Acting by all. If you know what was going on in Houston Control after the fuel cell explode you would be amazed. Houston Control saved those men as did those men's heroic actions. Houston had a few days to calculate and design a trajectory using the Lunar Excursion Model as the rocket to bring them home. The astronauts were taking star shots and using points on their spacecraft to line it up for the burn to put them on the proper course. Super geniuses on the ground devised the plan and master pilots of the air and space carried them out.
A Guy Named Joe
no Flight of the Phoenix?
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sorry that one is just too unbelievable..
The Great Santini
The Great Waldo Pepper
Airplane! should be #1
Someone on the script team had insight to the Houston Control first person stories ... when they were going around the room for everyones go/no-go call ... damn right the telemetry guys voice cracked when he squeaked out “go” .. if they didn’t “go” he had no clue how to save them. (My father was with IBM at the cape).
I was wondering if anyone would mention A Guy Named Joe. One of my top favorites is Always, a modern remake of it, but then being a woman pilot, some of the war related aviation movies fall towards the bottom of my list. Always and Air America, along with Top Gun are the only aviation movies I think I’ve owned, and Always and Air America I’ve had to buy more than one copy of. Hubby and I both also like The High and The Mighty. I know on more than one occasion he’s wanted to bitch slap someone in the cockpit.
The glider instructor I mentioned earlier was Derek Piggott and this is what wiki says about the Blue Max.
Pilots from the Irish Air Corps helped recreate the live dog-fight scenes, supported by number of civilians, including Charles Boddington and Derek Piggott. Piggott was the only pilot willing to fly beneath the spans of a bridge. Taking the role of both German pilots and with multiple takes from contrasting camera angles, he ended up flying 15 times under the wide span of the Carrickabrack Railway Viaduct in Fermoy, County Cork, Republic of Ireland, and 17 times under the narrower span.
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