Must have aviation movies

Tom Sixkiller wrote:

He actually did some flying for the movie (wing mounted camera shots), and
liked the D-H so much he bought one for himself shortly thereafter.

That's the one where they're carrying on a conversation without headsets in a
normal tone of voice in a Beaver while in the air, right?

George Patterson
Great discoveries are not announced with "Eureka!". What's usually said is
"Hummmmm... That's interesting...."

Almost every movie that somebody suggests will be panned by somebody else
because of 'inaccuracies.' Here is a list of all the movies that contain no
inaccuracies:

"Tom Sixkiller" wrote:
"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
Hot Shots, while occasionally funny, is almost unwatchable.

You need to pay closer attention.

He has his father's eyes, y'see....

Oh, never mind.

Rob

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(B25flyer) wrote:

Not seen much and so far not mentioned from the early 80s, "The Pilot" with
Cliff Robertson. Story line of a drunk airline pilot with some decent flying
in
a Pitts thrown in.

Best line in the move, "There I was in the Sea of Cotez, floating on a bunch
of
titties". You have to see it too understand. Mentioned the movie to Cliff at
OSH about 10 years ago and he said he had a blast making it.
Walt

Yep, a good one. What about the cockpit scene where Robertson pulls a
cover plate off a control of some sort, briefly looks at the underside
of the cover, and then replaces it. How many of you know what that was
about? ; )

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(Corky Scott) wrote:

On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 19:00:02 +0100 (CET), Nomen Nescio
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From: "Tom Sixkiller"

Fighter Squadron
12 o'clock High
Gathering of Eagles
Strategic Air Command
Flight of the Phoenix
The Hunters
Jet Pilot
Airplane...okay, maybe not, along with those it satirizes*.
Flying Leathernecks
*Top Gun (....barf) & Hot Shots
Bridges at Toko Ri
Tuskegee Airmen
Captain Eddie

* Not a "Must Have".

You forgot "The Right Stuff"!

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I have a couple of obscure but very good aviation specific movies no
one has mentioned yet:

"Island in the sky" from the book by the same name written by Ernest
K. Gann. Directed by William Wellman with Gann providing technical
expertise, I thought this was one of the most accurately made aviation
movies I've ever seen. John Wayne starred with Lloyd Nolan. Look for
Andy Devine in the cockpit of one of the search C-47's.

It's the story of a downed C-47 in northern Canada during winter circa
1943 or so and the search and rescue of the crew. Taken from an
incident that Gann played a small part in in real life.

"Cloud Dancer" starring David Carrodine and Jennifer O'Neil.
Carrodine portrays a competition aerobatic pilot who begins to suffer
consequences from the constant negative G's in the various
competitions.

The story goes all over the place but includes some scenes with a P-51
that has all it's machine guns being used to protect a drug route.

It was a while ago since I saw it but it was absolutely full of flying
scenes.

Corky Scott


How about the scene where Carradine has to "dogfight the P-51 in a (I
think) Cherokee and wins?

The best thing about the not-yet-listed "Battle of Britain" is knowing that
they shot some of the scenes with models upside down, so that you couldn't
see them hanging from wires. Of course, it's easy to see the wires hanging
*down* from the bottoms of the planes.

-- David Brooks

"C J Campbell" wrote in message
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Flight of the Phoenix
Strategic Air Command
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (due out on DVD March 6th!)
The Dawn Patrol
The Blue Max
Twelve O'Clock High
The Dam Busters
Six Days Seven Nights
Fate is the Hunter
The Right Stuff
The Great Waldo Pepper
Midway
Tora Tora Tora
The Wings of Eagles
Five Weeks in a Balloon (1962 version)
Space Cowboys

"Ralf S." wrote in message
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Anybody knows that movie with Robert redford about this Barnstorming
Period
before and after WWI?

I only know the German title "Die tollkühnen männer in Ihren fliegenden
Kisten"

"The daring men in their flying crates" is too close to the title of a
completely different movie. What was wrong with "Der Große Waldo Pfeffer"
anyway?

-- David Brooks

"Ian" wrote in message
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What are some "must have" movies that have an aviation theme in them? I
want to get a collection together and I was wanting some input from the
group.

Believe it or not, this thread has already been done to death. A few times.
Check out:

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=e...6162fd&rnum=16
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=e...dd48aa&rnum=10
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=e...edf300a&rnum=8
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=e...db87a6f&rnum=7
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=e...e3894b1&rnum=4

Here are short URLs for the above:

http://makeashorterlink.com/?X3C763B27
http://makeashorterlink.com/?P2D731B27
http://makeashorterlink.com/?G4E721B27
http://makeashorterlink.com/?T4F721B27
http://makeashorterlink.com/?X11862B27

There are probably others. Google is your friend.

Pete

"G.R. Patterson III" wrote in message
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Tom Sixkiller wrote:

He actually did some flying for the movie (wing mounted camera shots),
and
liked the D-H so much he bought one for himself shortly thereafter.

That's the one where they're carrying on a conversation without headsets
in a
normal tone of voice in a Beaver while in the air, right?

Can you imagine how that scene would play out on a THX sound system in the
theater?

"Michael 182" wrote in message
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Never saw the movie - is Stephen Coonts Flight of the Intruder any good? I
like his books - seems like they would make good movies. Also, some of
John
Nance's books seem like natural movie fodder.


I liked it, but it had so many places that lagged enough to put you to
sleep...