Admin Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 Came across this news story this morning: http://www.recreationalflying.com/showthread.php/132457-Flying-themed-films-10-best-plane-movies-of-all-time-Skyscanner-News and thought I would ask "What are yours???" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest DJH Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 Old British film, The Sound Barrier. As a kid I saw it at the Coogee Boomerang Theatre when it first came out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ozzie Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 Wow big call there. Impossible to have just one so top three movies. Battle of Britain, The Blue Max, Always. TV serials Sky King, Whirlybirds, Ripcord. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spin Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 Dambusters - hadn't seen it for ages and then tripped over the opening sequence on tv the other night. Acting perhaps a little too "stiff upper lip" for some tastes (although I suspect Tom Cruise's antics won't stand the test of time either) and the we've been spoilt by modern special effects - however the plentiful shots of Lancasters flying right on the deck amply made up for it - not too much trickery there I believe! Out of Africa - Moth flying over the Rift Valley etc in Kenya https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PboA8sP3SFA 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dazza 38 Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 Pretty much the same as Ozzie.Battle of Britain, Blue Max, great DVD's to have in the home collection. Also The final countdown. Where a A/c carrier goes back in time to WW2.Great footage of a Tomcat up against a Zero. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kgwilson Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 Add to Ozzies list "Dark Blue World". Some of the best genuine spitfire aerial shots ever. Mostly in Czech but also a good story. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest burbles1 Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 The Great Waldo Pepper was a classic in my childhood. Those stunts were amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ozzie Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 gypsy moths was pretty good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old man emu Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 C'mon you young whippersnappers! How about Howard Hughes' "Hells Angels", and David Niven in "Dawn Patrol"? Then there were all those 1930's movies about mail plane pilots. James Gagney did the test flying for de-icing boots. Jimmy Stewart was the "Lone Eagle" (Lindburgh). What about flying a twin engined Beech 18 through a signboard in "It's a Mad, Mad,Mad,Mad World?" OME Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
airangel Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 Dambusters and its theme tune..........Top stuff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bandit12 Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 Somebody has got to say it - Top Gun! As corny as it is, still a great flick. I recently acquired Cloud Dancer, haven't had a chance to see all of it yet due to children hogging the television, but if you want to see Pitts Specials doing their thing, it is spectacular. Terrible acting and weak script, great flying, what more could you want! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spin Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 OME - Its a mad, mad etc world, now that brings back memories! Dazza, likewise Final Countdown. Anyone remember Capricorn One - fodder for the moon landing conspiracy crew, the last part with choppers chasing a Stearman or similar was pretty good I thought. Also, Those Magnifient men in their Flying Machines; along with Tora, Tora Tora about Pearl Harbour and what followed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fly_tornado Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 waldo pepper was a great flying movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Posted January 27, 2011 Author Share Posted January 27, 2011 Interesting that no one has mention "The Aviator"...story about Howard Hughs or "Pearl Harbour" (recent remake) which has a lot of flying in it. Apart from some of those already listed I have in my DVD collection: A6M5 Zero Black Hawk Down The High and the Mighty Memphis Bell Midway Mosquito Squadron Spitfire (a movie on the story on how the Spitfire was designed and created) Stealth 633 Squadron Flying High Flying High 2 and all the 10 seasons of the TV series JAG that had a lot of flying in them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ozzie Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 Hmm, a list. Ian you have given me a reminder of something i should have done long ago. Make a list of the dvds and vids i have in my collection. Couple of hundred at least. Most of the vids are aircraft from WW11. Come in handy when i go buying more as a couple of times i have seen something grabbed it and found i already had it. usually because it has a new jacket photo on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spin Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 Yeah Ian, I'll second Pearl Harbour, it may have had a bit of a soppy storyline but I enjoyed the flying sequences. 633 Squadron - there's another I'd forgotten, similar to Dambusters in that it was made back when the real aircraft - and crews to fly the wheels off them, were still freely available. There was some hair raising footage of Mosquitos playing in and around the fjords I recall. JAG was a good series, particularly as many of the stories had some basis in fact - including the back seater inadvertantly ejecting from a Tomcat and going missing in a forest overnight. I've got a photo somewhere of the aircraft returning to base as a cabrio, apparently some rear admiral off for a jolly wasn't strapped in tightly enough and grabbed the lower ejection handle to steady himself when they rolled inverted:yikes:, not the only time that has happened by any means. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Posted January 27, 2011 Author Share Posted January 27, 2011 Some of the other JAG episodes included the landing of the C130 on an Aircraft carrier...no tail hook and it had to reverse engines before it even touched the deck so it stalled itself on, there was the Osprey episode and many more great ones Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest davidh10 Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 I'll add the tv series 12 O'clock High. I'm not sure if "Sound Barrier" is the one, but I recall a British black & white film about breaking the sound barrier and the discovery, by the test pilot, that the controls reversed sense at Mach 1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rgmwa Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 Lots of good movies listed already, but not sure if anyone has mentioned `The Right Stuff'. It was all about pilots and aircraft, as well as astronauts (and they're just pilots of a different sort anyway). rgmwa 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaz3g Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 Interesting that no one has mention "The Aviator"...story about Howard Hughs or "Pearl Harbour" (recent remake) which has a lot of flying in it.Apart from some of those already listed I have in my DVD collection: A6M5 Zero Black Hawk Down The High and the Mighty Memphis Bell Midway Mosquito Squadron Spitfire (a movie on the story on how the Spitfire was designed and created) Stealth 633 Squadron Flying High Flying High 2 and all the 10 seasons of the TV series JAG that had a lot of flying in them I have some of those but also: Hurricane A Yank In the RAAF The real Battle of Britain (not the movie) Reach for the Sky Battle of MidWay Fly Boys War in the Pacific Messerschmidt BF109 kaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stanzahero Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 The series A Piece of Cake. It was a seven part mini series shown on TV when I was a little tacker. It was about a Spitfire squadron during the early stages of WW2 till the end of the Battle of Britain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultralights Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 there is a few good TV series floating around at the moment as well, Ice Pilots Alaskan Wing men Flying Wild Alaska Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dunlopdangler Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 Not one of the greatest shows on TV...but they put crooks behind bars with the help of their trusty Cessna 310 "Songbird"...SKY KING Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanR Posted January 28, 2011 Share Posted January 28, 2011 One I like is Air America - plenty of flying amongst blowing things up ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gnarly Gnu Posted January 28, 2011 Share Posted January 28, 2011 I enjoyed the biplanes in 'Flyboys'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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