Aviation Movies - your top 5?

("Morgans" wrote)
Good flick. I had forgotten about that one. If you don't want to know
about the central conflict and resolution of the plot, don't read this
post any further, because I am about to give it away. Others, scroll
down.




Jimmy Stewart is a man!


Col: You could always make it up to her. When a girl runs out like that, she
generally wants to be followed.
Fergus: She's not a girl, Col.
Col: Whatever you say.


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On Sun, 30 Apr 2006 01:09:12 -0000, Jim Logajan wrote:

I still vividly
remember the scene where Stewart's character retracts the airplane's
landing gear while it's on the ground.

Friend of my father did that in rather more spectacular style. During the
Berlin airlift they were in the habit of drinking until the small hours
before setting off back to England. They did the usual of going to a show,
drinking lots and getting little sleep, and set out at dawn with his
co-pilot playing host to a monumental hangover.

They taxied with the co pilot slumped in his seat looking green, and he
decided to leave him to it. As they turned onto the runway he looked at the
co pilot and said "c'mon mate, cheer up!"

"Righto skip, gear up."

Crunch, splinter, grind

"No mate I said cheer up."

Try this list!


http://www.coastcomp.com/av/fltline2/avmovie.htm


regards


ian

Have a look at "Cloud Dancer" - lots of aerobatic stuff in Pitts's.

Also "Men of the Fighting Lady" - 1950's

My top 5 aviation movies:
Top Gun
Die Hard 2: Die Harder (does that count?)
If other people get to count space stuff, I count Apollo 13
The Aviator (the new one)
Pushing Tin

NickC wrote:
'Bat 21' with Danny Glover and Gene Hackman has some good Birddog
footage, but maybe the best flying scene I've ever seen is a P-51 (?
from memory) coming in for aerial support and flying about 20' above
the ground, rolling it knifedge to pass between two trees, then rolling
it up and climbing away, with vapour vortexs streaming off the wing
tips. Great visually, and great flying. Made before CGI, too.



NickC,

Oh YEAH! great flick!

good call!

elZee

NickC wrote:
'Bat 21' with Danny Glover and Gene Hackman has some good Birddog
footage, but maybe the best flying scene I've ever seen is a P-51 (?
from memory) coming in for aerial support and flying about 20' above
the ground, rolling it knifedge to pass between two trees, then rolling
it up and climbing away, with vapour vortexs streaming off the wing
tips. Great visually, and great flying. Made before CGI, too.



It was an A-1 Skyraider I beleive. Korean vintage attack aircraft that
came into it's own in SE Asia. Basically from I've been told it was a
flying tank. Low, slow and could take a beating!

Steve Firth wrote:

On Sat, 29 Apr 2006 19:09:27 +0800, news.ozemail.com.au wrote:


I want to stock up on some aviation themed videos. Would anyone want to
volunteer their top five aviation movies? Mine a

1. Top Gun.
2. Angels One 5.
3. Memphis Bell.
4. Air America.
5. The Blue Max.

Most aviation related movies have a war theme but there must be interesting
non military movies or documentaries with realistic flying action.


1. Catch 22
2. The Dam Busters
3. Battle of Britain
4. The Right Stuff
5. The Sound Barrier (1952) Not any of the later films with the same name.
6. The Spirit of St. Louis

Sorry, couldn't get it down to five.

Still trying to make my list make 5 but was wondering how long it would
take for The Right Stuff to show up.

"Chris Ehlbeck" wrote in message
...

Still trying to make my list make 5 but was wondering how long it would
take for The Right Stuff to show up.

Or "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo"

"Ian Donaldson" wrote in message
...
Try this list!

http://www.coastcomp.com/av/fltline2/avmovie.htm

I don't know how many other movies are missing from that list, but these a

1. Pearl Harbor (yeah I know, but it doesn't say *good* aviation movies)
2. Dark Blue World
3. Thirteen Days (not an aviation movie, but some rather nice CGI'd scenes of a
U-2 spy plane and a low level surveillance run by a couple of F-8s)

--
Paul