Favorite Aviation Films

Lockdown and self isolation continues in Telluride Colorado
What are your favorite Aviation based movies?
A couple of mine are Jimmy Stewart in the original Flight of the Phoenix.
Another, made more recently, is Tom Cruise in Made In America, if you haven't seen this its well worth a watch, lotta good flying in there.
Top Gun, of course, is on this list too. Motorcycles, Fighters, smoking HOT women, what more is there to life?
What are some of your favorites?
Nick
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Memphis Belle

DC

Cloud Dancer
Fly Away Home
The Right Stuff

I should explain. Memphis belle was released in 1991 and I was competing in the Hang Gliding East Coast Championships in the Sequatchie Valley. It was a fun contest that had colorful characters from a group called the “Green Team� (pun intended). I was staying in a hotel with some flying buddies and on one of the rain days and we rented this movie. -

DC

On Friday, April 17, 2020 at 10:20:10 AM UTC-4, Nick Kennedy wrote:
Lockdown and self isolation continues in Telluride Colorado
What are your favorite Aviation based movies?
A couple of mine are Jimmy Stewart in the original Flight of the Phoenix.
Another, made more recently, is Tom Cruise in Made In America, if you haven't seen this its well worth a watch, lotta good flying in there.
Top Gun, of course, is on this list too. Motorcycles, Fighters, smoking HOT women, what more is there to life?
What are some of your favorites?
Nick
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Point Break(not the horrible remake) Fandango- brilliant flying in that one and a quick first jump course in case anyone ever needs to know. Neither are aviation centric movies.

Dennis- If you haven't had heard of it, I highly recommend a book by Erik Kaye called "Eagles In The Flesh," about the wild adventures of the Green Team. Erik was one of those crazies from Day One, and his account is absolutely hilarious. He includes a chapter on the East Coast Champs, as well as the US Nationals at Dinosaur, Sandia Classic, Telluride, flying in Brazil and other spots. Not a book for children or your Mom.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FO90FE8...ng=UTF8&btkr=1

Available on Kindle ($3.99) but the paperback is worth having ($14.95). I recognized almost everybody in the book, despite the use of aliases to disguise the perpetrators. I'm not in the book, but I was there for a lot of the stories.
In fact, Erik stopped by my house in Moriarty just a few days ago. Hadn't seen him in 20 years!

Flight of the Phoenix was neat, especially as they actually built and flew the aircraft - but a black spot is that Mantz was killed doing so. The film wasn't worth that. Which reminds me, Scholl died doing shots for Top Gun - jeezthis make-believe is dangerous!

How about Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines. Great Waldo Pepper. Twelve O'clock High.

On Friday, April 17, 2020 at 1:50:20 PM UTC-4, wrote:
How about Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines. Great Waldo Pepper. Twelve O'clock High.

Battle of Britain. Dam Busters.

On Fri, 17 Apr 2020 11:02:14 -0700, Dan Daly wrote:

Battle of Britain.

Lost a bit of its shine for me seeing those yellow plastic Tornado props
on some the planes being shot tp pieces in the air.

Dam Busters.

Yeah, that was good.

So was "The Blue Max" - Derek Piggott was one of the stunt pilots in that.


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