Bad Aviation Films

So, in which thread does "Airplane!" belong? :-)

Steve Leonard
Do you like Gladiator movies?

All new aviation movies are bad because they have moved away from filming real aircraft to computer generated crap.

So, in which thread does "Airplane!" belong? :-)

Both, of course! Note that the categories are "Favorite" and "Bad." Not "Good" and "Bad."

1982, Clint Eastwood, Firefox.....poor airplanes but very close to he book which I read.

On Sunday, April 19, 2020 at 11:37:01 AM UTC-4, Dan Marotta wrote:
Since we've had favorites, how about bad ones?

Someone mentioned Top Gun.Â* I thought that was horrible.Â* Yeah, there
was eye candy for both of the only two real genders, and there were a
bunch of great shots of aircraft, but the story line was total crap.

So for one of my favorite bad aviation films, I nominate:Â* Jet Pilot
with John Wayne, Janet Leigh, and believe it or not, Mamie Van Doren.

Dan, 5J

Family Flight starring Rod Taylor (1972). Their Navion’s prop gets bent during a forced landing in Baja. They bang it straight with a rock. Goes downhill from there.

Pretty sure there was something along the lines of this on TV during the
school holidays (Mid-Late 70s UK)


At 18:53 19 April 2020, wrote:
My vote goes to "Les Chevaliers du Ciel" ("Sky Fighters" in the English
ver=
sion), a 2005 film by G=C3=A9rard Pir=C3=A8s. Very good airplane scenes,

The picture was based on a comics series, "Tanguy et Laverdure", more or
less the French equivalent of "Steve Canyon". But for reasons unknown, the
principal characters were changed, and their replacements were very dull,
the actors below average. "Tanguy et Laverdure" without Tanguy nor
Laverdure..=
..=20

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_Fighters

Con Air with Nicolas Cage had one of the cheesiest crash scenes ever.
They took a junker C-123K transport plane, put it on rails, and slammed
it into the Sands Hotel in Vegas for the grand finale. That was before
the hotel was imploded in real life.

They actually used three different planes in the filming, one was
outfitted with a diesel engine from a bus along with its automatic
transmission, driving the nose wheel. It was used to film taxiing
scenes , now open to visitors at the Wendover UT airport, which was a
monster air base used for training nuclear bomber crews in WW II.

A third plane was privately owned, airworthy, which crashed in Denali
National Park after the filming. With Hollywood magic, it looked huge
on the inside, with two decks, and cells for prisoner transport.

-Dave

Family Flight starring Rod Taylor (1972). Their Navion’s prop gets bent during a forced landing in Baja. They bang it straight with a rock. Goes downhill from there.

This plot was recycled into a 6 Million Dollar Man episode called "Pilot Error". Equally bad. Steve Auston unbends the prop with his bionic arm.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0702072/

Family Flight starring Rod Taylor (1972). Their Navion’s prop gets bent during a forced landing in Baja. They bang it straight with a rock. Goes downhill from there.

That plot and footage were recycled into a 6 Million Dollar Man episode called "Pilot Error". It was no better than the original. Only in this episode, Steve Austin unbent the propeller with his bionic arm. Then, once airborne, he sent Morse code to the ground controllers via the ident button on the transponder.

Like fine wine, it's a movie that improves with time.

https://www.indiewire.com/2013/06/je...effect-127727/



On 4/22/20 8:44 AM, kinsell wrote:
Con Air with Nicolas Cage had one of the cheesiest crash scenes ever.
They took a junker C-123K transport plane, put it on rails, and slammed
it into the Sands Hotel in Vegas for the grand finale. That was before
the hotel was imploded in real life.

They actually used three different planes in the filming, one was
outfitted with a diesel engine from a bus along with its automatic
transmission, driving the nose wheel.Â* It was used to film taxiing
scenes , now open to visitors at the Wendover UT airport, which was a
monster air base used for training nuclear bomber crews in WW II.

A third plane was privately owned, airworthy, which crashed in Denali
National Park after the filming.Â* With Hollywood magic, it looked huge
on the inside, with two decks, and cells for prisoner transport.

-Dave