Best all time fly boy pictures

On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 17:26:56 GMT, Ron Wanttaja
wrote:

:Got to admit two of my guilty pleasures are "633 Squadron" and "Battle of
:Britain"...both good movies featuring planes that are very rare, nowadays.
:I've got a copy of a 1960's book titled, "The Making of the Battle of
:Britain," and getting those air fleets together was a fascinating process.
:Having the CAF pilots work directly with the Spanish was a good idea
:because they spoke the language, what they DIDN'T think of is that the
:Texans spoke it was a rather strong Mexican accent...
:

To throw in a few off the top of my pointed head -

Proof - if you can find it. Kevin Reynolds student film, expanded
into Fandango.
Fly Away Home (Geese and ultralights)
Cloud Dancer (Aerobatics)
No Highway in the Sky (metal fatigue and airliners)
Air America (The few, the proud, the totally insane)
Fate is the Hunter (the coffee syndrome)
Capricorn One (escape sequence, crop duster vrs helo gunships)
Point Break (sky diving)
Drop Zone, Terminal Velocity (more sky diving)
A Guy Named Joe (remade as Always)
Spitfire!
Breaking the Sound Barrier (my personal favorite - directed by David
Lean)
Dambusters!
Memphis Belle (both the original documentary and the recent fiction
film)
Tmavomodrý sve(t ("Dark Blue World" 2001)
Firebirds (Like Top Gun, but with Apaches)
Iron Eagle 3 (turn off the sound, fast forward through the non-flying
stuff)

Dale,

You gotta have "Those Magnificant Men and their Flying Machines" in
your collection. Haven't seen that flick in decades... kinda like
"the great race."

I remember a scene after the pilot of the crout entry to the race
get's taken out and the military political officer grabs the
how-to-fly-book: "There is nothing a German Officer can not do!"

cheers

pacplyer










"Dale Alexander" wrote in message .com...
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.

Here are some more threads on this subject


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

Of perhaps more immediate interest is non-flying films that include scenes
or subplots of interest to the pilot. "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" is
a classic example, with Paul Mantz flying the twin Beech through the
billboard.

That was actually Mantz' partner Frank Tallman flying through the billboard.
The board was balsa wood but the frame was all steel. The leading edges of the
wings were so badly distorted afterward it took full power to fly it back to
the runway. Tallman also flew the Beech through an open hangar something Mantz
had done about 30 years before with a biplane.

John Dupre'

Cloud Dancer (Aerobatics)

Remember when this came out. Couldn't wait to see it but it never came near my
theater. Years later saw it at Oshkosh. What a disappointment! It really
sucked. With Jennifer O'Neil and Timothy Bottoms no wonder. David Carradine
was the best thing in it besides the flying but of course they had to throw in
an armed Mustang flying top cover for drug runners etc.

My theory is this. They need to make an aviation oriented film that could just
as easily be about truck drivers or tug boat captains or railroads. In other
words I think people get carried away with the visual effect of the aircraft
and forget the plot and narrative. A surprising number of aviation films
really stink when considered just as films.

John Dupre'

"Dale Alexander" wrote in message .com...
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.


"The Road Warrior", starring Bruce Spence as the The Gyro Captain.
Mel Gibson had a part in it too. :-)

"Midway", Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, and everyone else in
Hollywood, except Mel Gibson.

"Memphis Belle", Matthew Modine loses his tomato soup to AAA.

"Dr. Strangelove", B-52's and Slim Pickens riding a 'noo-kler' weapon.

"Dale Alexander" wrote in message
. com...
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".

"Bridges at Toko-Ri"

All true... but since it's the only film with so many Pitts' in it,
it'll always be a favorite of mine.

-j-

"If you're not flying on the edge, you're taking up too much air!"



On 23 Feb 2004 00:02:27 GMT, (JDupre5762) wrote:

Cloud Dancer (Aerobatics)

Remember when this came out. Couldn't wait to see it but it never came near my
theater. Years later saw it at Oshkosh. What a disappointment! It really
sucked. With Jennifer O'Neil and Timothy Bottoms no wonder. David Carradine
was the best thing in it besides the flying but of course they had to throw in
an armed Mustang flying top cover for drug runners etc.

My theory is this. They need to make an aviation oriented film that could just
as easily be about truck drivers or tug boat captains or railroads. In other
words I think people get carried away with the visual effect of the aircraft
and forget the plot and narrative. A surprising number of aviation films
really stink when considered just as films.

John Dupre'

Most everyone has listed the majority of my collection, or the ones on
my short list to purchase. However...

One film I highly recommend is the recent Czech flick "Dark Blue
World". Excellent film, some re-hashed clips from "Battle of Britain"
and "Memphis Belle", but some great new footage too.

Other flying films (or films with flying clips) that I can think of
include:

Tora, Tora, Tora
Forever Young
Fighter Squadron
Dragonfly Squadron
Apocolypse Now
Blue Thunder
Flight of the Intruder
Men with Wings
Dawn Patrol
Empire in the Sun
Air Force

-j-


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.

A few more for the roster.......

High Road to China - Tom Selleck
Jet Pilot - John Wayne
The High & the Mighty - Ditto
Island in the Sky - Ditto
Strategic Air Command - Jimmy Stewart

Rich S.