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What's your favorite movie about aviation?
one man's opinion...
Posted on 03/14/2014 6:13:28 AM PDT by ken5050
Aviation and movies pretty much got their start about the same time, and ever since, they've been making movies about the drama of flight. With the mystery of the lost Malaysia Airlines 777 dominating the news, (and no doubt there are already plans being made for a movie) I was wondering what movies about airplanes and flight are FReepers' favorites?
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To: ken5050
Strategic Air Command, Always, No Highway In The Sky
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posted on
03/14/2014 6:34:49 AM PDT
by
CARTOUCHE
(I will not comply !!!! No gov't care for me! No oversight, no insight, no meal site!)
To: GreenHornet
I am serious. And stop calling me Shirley.
To: ken5050
The Right Stuff. A definite desert island disc, and now available on a very nicely done Blu-ray.
cheers
Jim
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posted on
03/14/2014 6:36:35 AM PDT
by
gymbeau
(Tagline under consideration)
To: ken5050
Those Magnificent Men and Their Flying Machines was fun...
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posted on
03/14/2014 6:37:12 AM PDT
by
trebb
(Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
To: ken5050
Chiming in with The Final Countdown.
To: ken5050
“Shouldn’t we turn on the runway lights now?”
Robert Stack: “No! That’s just what they’re expecting.”
At that point I was laughing so hard I was crying. The control tower part is my fav.
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posted on
03/14/2014 6:37:55 AM PDT
by
St_Thomas_Aquinas
( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
To: miss marmelstein
Pearl Harbor has some darn good flying footage in it, plus there's this mouth-watering extra:
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posted on
03/14/2014 6:49:10 AM PDT
by
Mich Patriot
(PITCH BLACK is the new "transparent")
To: miss marmelstein
The Wings of Eagles... John Ford, John Wayne, and Maureen O'Hara at their best. Great supporting cast too.
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posted on
03/14/2014 6:50:30 AM PDT
by
Rummyfan
(Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
To: high info voter
“Always” Unfortunately I can't sit through two hours of Richard Dreyfus and Holly Hunter. Spielberg's worst. watch the original with Spencer Tracy and Irene dunne A Guy Named Joe...
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posted on
03/14/2014 6:52:28 AM PDT
by
Rummyfan
(Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
To: ken5050
Con Air!Nobody move, or the bunny gets it!
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posted on
03/14/2014 6:54:13 AM PDT
by
Rummyfan
(Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
To: tanknetter
Not long after the movie came out, I talked to one of the guys that flew the “Zeros” PT19’s in the scene where the jet flies between them.
They were told to expect some vortexes off of the ends of the wings.
He said that he was just merely a passenger for what seemed like an eternity.
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posted on
03/14/2014 6:55:13 AM PDT
by
Clay Moore
("To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize." ~Voltaire)
To: ken5050
And maybe it's a stretch to say it's about aviation except tangentially, but Gravity.
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posted on
03/14/2014 6:56:41 AM PDT
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Rummyfan
(Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
To: puppypusher
The photography in Strategic Air Command was spectacular. Truly artistic in every sense. And John Wayne in “Island in the Sky”.
Those C-47 cargo planes were the other stars of the movie. The flights scenes were amazingly filmed too.
And a recent one “The Aviator”, about Howard Hughes, beautifully depicted some spectacular flying scenes of US history.
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posted on
03/14/2014 6:57:06 AM PDT
by
DesertRhino
(I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
To: miss marmelstein
The Tuskegee Airmen (HBO)
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posted on
03/14/2014 6:58:19 AM PDT
by
markoman
(The man with the rubber glove was....surprisingly gentle.)
To: Mich Patriot
Kate Beckinsale... yum yum.
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posted on
03/14/2014 6:59:24 AM PDT
by
Rummyfan
(Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
To: ken5050
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posted on
03/14/2014 7:00:41 AM PDT
by
DickBrannigan
(When did logic become reversed, and right became wrong, and wrong became right?)
To: ken5050
The Blue Max. I first saw this movie when it came out in a theater.
To: BulletBobCo
Air America, Mel Gibson and Robert Downey Jr.
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posted on
03/14/2014 7:03:48 AM PDT
by
Busko
(The only thing that is certain is that nothing is certain.)
To: ken5050
“No Highway in the Sky” (1951) with Jimmy Stewart.
A real actor, a real pilot and a real HERO.
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posted on
03/14/2014 7:05:53 AM PDT
by
SJSAMPLE
To: ken5050
“Note: If you’re curious, in the film, the tail of the plane falls off because of metal fatigue. The actual Comet also came apart due to metal fatigue, but it was due to the windows being too large. They couldn’t survive the stresses of multiple pressurization cycles.”
Too large and too SQUARE.
Stress formations just LOVE sharp edges.
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posted on
03/14/2014 7:07:09 AM PDT
by
SJSAMPLE
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