Must have aviation movies

Looks like no one mentioned "Dark Blue World" which is a story about two
Spitfire pilots that fall in love with the same woman (it came out before Pearl
Harbor!). Excellent flying sequences and some great shots of the Spitfires. I
believe this movie came out in early 2001.

http://www.sonyclassics.com/darkblue...withflash.html

TooPlaneCrazy7 wrote:

Looks like no one mentioned "Dark Blue World" ....

If you try to rent this instead of buying it, be aware that some outfits put this
in the foreign language section.

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

I did! But in a different thread.

http://groups.google.co.uk/groups?q=...UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
&scoring=d&selm=buom9u%24ni4%241%40newstree.wise.e dt.ericsson.se&rnum=3

Or

http://makeashorterlink.com/?L17522237

I've got the DVD.

Anyone mentioned "Air America" yet?

Paul

"TooPlaneCrazy7" wrote in message
...
Looks like no one mentioned "Dark Blue World" which is a story about two
Spitfire pilots that fall in love with the same woman (it came out before
Pearl
Harbor!). Excellent flying sequences and some great shots of the
Spitfires. I
believe this movie came out in early 2001.

http://www.sonyclassics.com/darkblue...withflash.html

"Only Angels have Wings" is my favorite. Good ole fashion flying by
the seat of the pants try to esablish a mail route in the middle of
nowhere. You even get to see a Ford Trimotor spin.

I recently saw "Flying Tigers" (John Wayne) and was not impressed. Too
much talking, not enough flying.

-Robert

Ian wrote in message ...
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.

Thanks

"Robert M. Gary" wrote in message
om...

I recently saw "Flying Tigers" (John Wayne) and was not impressed. Too
much talking, not enough flying.

The three CW test pilots who did the flying for that movie were a first rate
team; Herb Fisher, Dan Reid, and Dick Griffin. Herb was a friend of mine for
many years and a charter member of the IFPF. They got a real kick out of
doing the movie, although as you have so correctly said, much of what they
actually got to do was restricted to takeoffs and landings. :-)
Dudley Henriques
International Fighter Pilots Fellowship
Commercial Pilot/ CFI Retired
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I recently saw "Flying Tigers" (John Wayne) and was not impressed. Too
much talking, not enough flying.

Too much bullfeathers, not enough history.

There was absolutely nothing in the film remotely connected to reality
except for the shots (evidently taken from Japanese footage) of the
NAH-KAH-JEEM-AH fighters.


all the best -- Dan Ford
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CD

Robert L Scott who wrote "God is my co-pilot" was the Base Commander
where I was stationed.

One night at the club a drunken Ace from WWII cornered him and gave
him a hard time about writing the book and what it contained.

Scott's reply was:

quote

"I can sit down right now and write a check for $100,000, can you?"

End of quote and end of discussion.

Big John


On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 07:55:36 -0500, Cub Driver
wrote:


I recently saw "Flying Tigers" (John Wayne) and was not impressed. Too
much talking, not enough flying.

Too much bullfeathers, not enough history.

There was absolutely nothing in the film remotely connected to reality
except for the shots (evidently taken from Japanese footage) of the
NAH-KAH-JEEM-AH fighters.


all the best -- Dan Ford
email:

see the Warbird's Forum at www.warbirdforum.com
and the Piper Cub Forum at www.pipercubforum.com

"Big John" wrote in message
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CD

Robert L Scott who wrote "God is my co-pilot" was the Base Commander
where I was stationed.

One night at the club a drunken Ace from WWII cornered him and gave
him a hard time about writing the book and what it contained.

Scott's reply was:

quote

"I can sit down right now and write a check for $100,000, can you?"

End of quote and end of discussion.

Big John

Tell you how GIMCP was written BJ. Bob was approached by Charlie Scribner.
Scribner told Bob he had a great story to tell and handed Scotty a bunch of
those cylinder things for the talking machines and locked Bob in a room at
the Waldorf in New York. Bob wrote the whole damn story in one weekend
locked in that room! Then Jack Warner got in on it and the rest is history.
A funny aside to all this is that Warner Bros hired Richard Loo, the great
Asian actor to do the Tokyo Joe "ace" part in the picture and Bob has spent
the rest of his life on the lecture circuit telling people that he didn't
ACTUALLY shoot down Tokyo Joe!! :-))
Dudley

Tell you how GIMCP was written BJ. Bob was approached by Charlie Scribner.
Scribner told Bob he had a great story to tell and handed Scotty a bunch of
those cylinder things for the talking machines and locked Bob in a room at
the Waldorf in New York. Bob wrote the whole damn story in one weekend
locked in that room! Then Jack Warner got in on it and the rest is history.
A funny aside to all this is that Warner Bros hired Richard Loo, the great
Asian actor to do the Tokyo Joe "ace" part in the picture and Bob has spent
the rest of his life on the lecture circuit telling people that he didn't
ACTUALLY shoot down Tokyo Joe!! :-))
Dudley



Sadly, it seems that much of the average American's knowledge of history
is gained via the silver screen. Ever since I was 10 or 11 and saw a
blatant historical error in a movie, it's ****ed me off when I think
that someone got paid mega bucks to create an enduring version of
history that any literate person would know is false.
--
Jeff 'The Wizard of Draws' Bucchino

"Cartoons with a Touch of Magic"
http://www.wizardofdraws.com
http://www.cartoonclipart.com

"I can sit down right now and write a check for $100,000, can you?"

Seems to me, that pretty much proved the drunk's point.

all the best -- Dan Ford
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