Best all time fly boy pictures

On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 05:33:46 GMT, Richard Lamb
wrote:

There was a Cliff Robertson film about an alcoholic airline pilot
that I saw once.

Great story AND great flying.

Somebody remember it for me?

"The Pilot"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079719/

IIRC, the studio's behavior after the release of this film triggered
Robertson's fight against the financial shenanigans the studios were using
to shaft actors. Richard Riley probably has a better summary of that than
I do....

BTW, the IMDB listing for "Birds of Prey," the David Janssen helicopter
movie, can be found at:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069787/

It's funny to see how MANY movies have had the title "Birds of Prey."
Eleven, between 1917 and 2002.

Ron Wanttaja

On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 05:33:46 GMT, Richard Lamb
wrote:

:There was a Cliff Robertson film about an alcoholic airline pilot
:that I saw once.
:
:Great story AND great flying.
:
:Somebody remember it for me?

"The Pilot" 1979. On video it's called "Danger in the Skies."
Robertson directed, co-wrote, and flew the DC-8 in some scenes.

Was it "Fargo"? Oops, wrong story (Fargo is where the Northwest
pilots had a few cocktails before continuing their flight to Minneapolis
a few years back). Sorry, couldn't resist...

Scott


Richard Lamb wrote:
Ron Wanttaja wrote:

On Mon, 23 Feb 2004 18:18:20 -0600, "plasticguy"
wrote:


And thatmovie about the Radio Station guy in a Hughes 500
chasing the Bank robbers in the Alouette 2.

"Birds of Prey" with David Janssen.

Ron Wanttaja


There was a Cliff Robertson film about an alcoholic airline pilot
that I saw once.

Great story AND great flying.

Somebody remember it for me?

ichar

Richard Lamb wrote:

There was a Cliff Robertson film about an alcoholic airline pilot
that I saw once.

Great story AND great flying.

Somebody remember it for me?

ichar
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Piece of cake.

** THE PILOT **

More than you want to know at....

http://www.avweb.com/news/profiles/182957-1.html

Richard Lamb wrote:


There was a Cliff Robertson film about an alcoholic airline pilot
that I saw once.

Great story AND great flying.

Somebody remember it for me?

Gidget! Well, he was an airline pilot hiding out as the Big Cahuna : ) And
don't forget 61 Squadron or whatever it was called that inspired the Deathstar
attack in Star Wars.

-- Charlie Springer

George Pal's "War of the Worlds". Northrop YB49 attacks Martian war
machines.

I think the SF film "This island Earth" had a lightplane sequence in it
as well.

And a favorite movie scene I remember (forget the title of the 1942 B film)
stars my home base of Brackett field in LaVerne, Ca. as a WWII training
field. It's rotating beneath a spinning fighter while the pilot pulls back
on the stick for all he's worth, as the radio voice screams "pull out".

Jeff

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On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 23:53:31 GMT, "Dale Alexander"
wrote:

Hi all,

I'm trying to put together some kind of plan to increase our EAA chapter
membership. To that end, I would like to pick everyone's brains for their
favorite big screen movie that involves airplanes, either main to the
plot
or of any background significance. Examples would be like "Flying Tigers"
with John Wayne or "Indiana Jones and the Search for the Holy Grail".

Thanks in advance,

Dale Alexander
"Birds of Paradise" EAA 735
Paradise, Ca.

On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 03:41:22 GMT, "Jeff Schroeder"
wrote:

I think the SF film "This island Earth" had a lightplane sequence in it
as well.

Not only several lightplane scenes, but an air-launch of a Stinson from a
UFO.

Rent the 'Mystery Science Theater 3000" version of this film....

Ron "Agggh, the Kingdome!" Wanttaja

Ron Wanttaja wrote in message . ..
On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 03:41:22 GMT, "Jeff Schroeder"
wrote:

I think the SF film "This island Earth" had a lightplane sequence in it
as well.

Not only several lightplane scenes, but an air-launch of a Stinson from a
UFO.

Rent the 'Mystery Science Theater 3000" version of this film....

Ron "Agggh, the Kingdome!" Wanttaja


Some others to consider

1. Gathering of Eagles (SAC in the 60's)

2. High Road to China (plot is a little far-fetched, but man, what
aerial photography. It was stunning.

Blue skies

John

Ron Wanttaja wrote:


I think the SF film "This island Earth" had a lightplane sequence in it
as well.

Not only several lightplane scenes, but an air-launch of a Stinson from a
UFO.

Rent the 'Mystery Science Theater 3000" version of this film....

"This Island Earth" was one of the better SF films of the '50s. MST
3000 should have chosen a more worthy candidate to ridicule. Still, I
found the MST 3000 version suitably entertaining.

David O -- http://www.AirplaneZone.com