Top 10 Greatest Airplane Movies

YouTube ^ | February 28, 2014 | WatchMojo.com

[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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[tophat9000]

This is a list for people that know jack about aircraft....Howard Hawks alone made 8 better airplane movies then this list

[skeptoid]

How could my fellow Freepers leave out this MAJOR OMISSION:

Catch 22

with the large fleet of B-25's, filmed from runway and air to air

Also, the classic Beech 18 sequence in Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World(although not an "aviation" flick.

There was also an obscure film titled Deception which had some exceptionally beautifully filmed flight scenes, including the opening sequence dramatic slip over the trees to land on a lush grass strip.

[CommerceComet]

I wouldn't call it a classic but I have always enjoyed High Road to China with Tom Selleck and Bess Armstrong. After watching it a couple of years ago, even my teenaged sons admitted it was a good movie.

[SES1066]

Problem is that it would NOT work. The pilot for the version they built (in a real airplane workshop) crashed it and died.

That pilot was a very experienced one, Paul Mantz, co-owner of Tallmantz Aviation, one of Hollywood's premier aviation shops of the time, 1965. I would dispute that "it would NOT work", as it did work for much of the movie. The crash came from a too-low pass that dragged on the ground and over-stressed the specially designed movie-use airplane so that it structurally failed when Mantz tried to power up for altitude afterwards.

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

Has to be the -original- Flight of the Phoenix, right??

Oh, God, yes. I've tried to blot the remake from my mind.

[skeptoid]

Correct, sir

The aircraft fuselage broke right behind the cockpit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n82nN_lqn58

[RaceBannon]

I had totally forgot about Phoenix and also Strategic air command and Island in the sky

[tanknetter]

I bet most people don't know what you(we) are talking about.

Great movie.I have a copy of it on VHS.

Well, if anyone wants to see it, it's on youtube, here It's SO worth the 7 minutes or so to watch.

You should get a copy on DVD or BluRay. Go for the special edition with the extra features. The interviews with the VF-84 Tomcat drivers who filmed the scenes are great, especially them recounting how the CNO chewed their a**es out in the lobby of DC's Uptown Theater after the premiere because of that one part where the F-14 stalls out and almost goes into the drink.

[PAR35]

Wings
12 O’clock High
No Highway in the Sky
30 Seconds over Tokyo

[tanknetter]

Figured I'd whet some appetites for checking out the youtube video, above.

[PLMerite]

I saw that in the theater and waited for it come out on VHS and then DVD. I’ll give the Blu-ray a chance to get cheaper. :)

[ReformationFan]

Only Angels Have Wings(1939) with Cary Grant, Rita Hayworth and Jean Arthur-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcDy-mb9Coo

[RaceBannon]

OH!!
I was thinking of this movie for soem time, I saw it when it played first time, but forgot the title!

[RaceBannon]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmzBZ98fVWw

[Conspiracy Guy]

I picked the wrong day to give up cocaine.

[stubernx98]

One of the best is the “622 Squadron” one of the greatest plans the British Mosquito. It is about training to bomb the Nazi heavy water plant in Norway. Also liked “Dam Busters”. they did a test run a few years ago on one of the Ed channels.

[RaceBannon]

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL88-nF8r4dT9kyqXp0S3A7xEpBy8AQfps

[PhiloBedo]

You have good taste! My favorites as well. I like John Wayne’s character’s idea of CRM.

[a fool in paradise]

Damn, between 1930 and 1980, they only made one airplane film worth mentioning? Sure glad to see things improved so much from in the last 25 years, they dominate the list! < /sarc >

[eartrumpet]

I’ll take Fight for the Sky. I got a VHS copy from Dillon Precision 25 years ago. Mike Dillon had found a copy of the film on an airbase and saved it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idfMaeAk9z4