[EveningStar]

Top 10:

10. Executive Decision (1996)
9. Air America (1990)
8. United 93 (2006)
7. Hell's Angels (1930)
6. Con Air (1997)
5. Up in the Air (2009)
4. Air Force One (1997)
3. The Aviator (2004)
2. Airplane! (1980)
1. Top Gun (1986)

Honorable mention:

Die Hard 2: Die Harder (1990)
Red Eye (2005)
Battle of Britain (1969)
The Blue Max (1966)

[MD Expat in PA]

While The Right Stuff was a movie about the early days of the space program, the Mercury program, nearly the first half of the movie was about the Air Force test pilots during the early days of jet aircraft, especially focusing on Chuck Yeager and his breaking of the sound barrier.

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.

[norwaypinesavage]

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.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Non-Stop was pretty good. Can’t wait to see where that falls on your list.

[Northern Yankee]

Twelve O’clock High? Not there? Hmmmm....

[Professional Engineer]

Bfl

[trisham]

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within feet of the river. Have been sitting here watching the border
patrol patrolling in their riverboats all night and all morning..."

~Jim Robinson

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[cornelis]

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