-PJ
Posted on 02/28/2014 10:54:30 AM PST by EveningStar
Excitement always seems to happen at ten thousand feet! Join http://www.WatchMojo.com as we count down our picks for the top 10 greatest airplane movies. Special thanks to our users viliguns and Andy Roehl for submitting the idea on our Suggestions Page at WatchMojo.com/suggest!
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Just watched,great part in the movie.
-PJ
Such great footage of vintage planes...loved it!
Dawn Patrol
Alive
Planes,Trains and Automobiles
The Flight of the Intruder
What! And you skipped the Strategic Air Command?
It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad World - Honorable Mention.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xeuiGcLdcs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Cq7hf4ylvY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Bu2wm0Z7yM
Top Gun #1? Pish!
The Right Stuff deserves to be on that list, if not very high up on that list.
I is among my favorite movies of all time; in my top ten favorite movies. Although I will say that Airplane! is one of my favorite comedy movies, right up there with Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Monty Python And The Holy Grail and Bringing Up Baby.
As a retired engineer who spent a career working on metal fatigue, first place is “No Highway in the Sky” (1951). There is no second place.
My FIL was an aircraft mechanic on a flat top in WWII. His ship, the Corregidor, was caught with many others in Halsey's Typhoon for several days. An airplane had been tied on the front of the ship and caught many of the direct waves from the typhoon.
He bet a number of others on the ship that he could start the engine on the first try, with only one cartridge. Since no where in the bet did it state how much he could do to the engine BEFORE the cartridge, he spent hours and hours cleaning the engine, carburetors, magnetos, and anything else damaged by the water. He also propped the engine over dozens of times, making sure it has spark and fuel. It started on the first cartridge, and he was paid a good share of his college tuition.
Rest assured that this story has NOT been enhanced by 65 years of memories.
Thanks for ping Evening Star.
Good lists and good suggestions from others of flicks not on list. Everyone has their own ideas..I haven’t seen many of the older movies and most are not easy to find are they?
Hope all are doing well.. Oscars on Sunday.
Non-Stop was pretty good. Can’t wait to see where that falls on your list.
Strategic Air Command. Great movie. My dad was a B-36 Peacemaker crew member in the early 50’s. Stationed in Texas. TDY’d in the Pacific. 6 turning, 4 burning. Biggest bomber ever built.
When we lived on Lake Worth, opposite the end of the runway at Carswell AFB, the B-36s (which were built there) took off directly over our house.
They didn't make that loud a noise -- instead, a deep incessant "buzz" -- but the vibrations from their passage often shook china and glassware out of the kitchen cabinets, to break on the counter.
I grew up a mile from BDL (Windsor Locks) in CT. Pratt and Whitney leased a B-52 there for testing engines. They were a magnificent sight to see coming in and taking off. My dad work for that company 35 years after leaving the USAF.
I haven’t seen “Airplane!” in a long time. I just pulled it up on Netflix; my teenagers will love it.
Twelve O’clock High? Not there? Hmmmm....
Mark
And don’t call me Shirley!
“...one of our aircraft is missing” That is the title. Available on youtube, make sure to watch the longer version. WWII Wellington aircraft. Done by the great team of Pressburger and Powell. A great airplane movie, a great war movie and a great ensemble cast.
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