Jim Macklin wrote:
It isn't an aviation film, it is really pretty terrible, but
the first minute or so of Can Hieronymus Merkin Forget Mercy
Humpy and Find True Happiness has an SR 71 in-flight scene
that is worth seeing.

Battle of Britain
Tora, Tora, Tora
The Great Waldo Pepper
Spirit of St. Louis
Dam Busters
Island in the Sky
Flight of the Phoenix [Jimmy Stewart version]
no special order


Anybody care to add to the list of good to great airplane
Hollywood movies?

Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines
Goldfinger (despite the scene where Goldfinger gets sucked out a
window)
Twelve O'Clock High
The Blue Max
Any of the "Over....." series. That PBS series of films always makes me
want to go out and fly.