Aviation Movies - your top 5?

I don't know of any movies, I do own a book though titled Heaven Next Stop,
A Luftwaffe Fighter Pilot at War by Gunther Bloemertz. A personal story of
one of the Abbeville Boys who flew FW 190s.

One of those books that you start to read after dinner and before you know
it it is the early hours of the morning.

Well worth the read, amazing stories.

Ric

"Jim Hawkins" wrote in message
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"news.ozemail.com.au" wrote in message
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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.



Are there no good German ones ?
If they could make a superb submarine epic like 'Das Boot' they must have
had the potential to make some good aviation stuff.

Jim Hawkins

wrote:
Sla#s wrote:


Bird of prey. (I love Lamas!)
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And for the best ever aerial shot: Where the Lama breaks through the
roof in the opening secquence of Bird of Prey 2.
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http://www.imdb.com lists several movies with the title _Bird of Prey_
and one _Bird of Prey 2_, but none with Lamas.

I (barely) remember _Birds of Prey_ with David Janssen from 1973.

In particular there is a scene in which he is riding on the wing of
a biplane while it banks over and dives into a canyon. Fantastic!

In BOP 1 the Lama was N13583 and the 500 N9103F
The Lama crashed and was destroyed the next year with water in the fuel
causing a flame out!

Slatts

Sla#s wrote:
wrote:
Sla#s wrote:


Bird of prey. (I love Lamas!)
...

And for the best ever aerial shot: Where the Lama breaks through the
roof in the opening secquence of Bird of Prey 2.
...

http://www.imdb.com lists several movies with the title _Bird of Prey_
and one _Bird of Prey 2_, but none with Lamas.

I (barely) remember _Birds of Prey_ with David Janssen from 1973.

In particular there is a scene in which he is riding on the wing of
a biplane while it banks over and dives into a canyon. Fantastic!

In BOP 1 the Lama was N13583 and the 500 N9103F
The Lama crashed and was destroyed the next year with water in the fuel
causing a flame out!


LOL! I thought you meant Lorenzo Lamas...

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FF

Dave Eadsforth wrote:
In article .com,
Flyingmonk writes
My top 5:
1. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

A truly scrumptious movie...

2. Flight of the Phoenix [old version].
3. Memphis Bell.
4. Air America.
5. Apocalypse Now .

The Monk

Cheers,

Dave

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Yeah, I really lighted that movie and D Van Dyke too.

The Monk
Dave Eadsforth

Bernd Felsche schrieb:


You mean like "Quax, der Bruchpilot"? :-)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034076/


I've seen it a couple of times. Not a bad "Zeitdokument". My
favourit scene is when the instructor dismantles his joystick and
throws it overboard, and Rühmann promtly does the same with his.
P.

"Steve S" wrote in message
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I did a gliding course at Lasham back when Derek Piggott was CFI. On a wet
afternoon with no flying he got the video out and showed us how he did it.
Look carefully for poles stuck in the river bed.

Oh *now* you tell me! I didn't record it. C'mon, spill the beans: what were
the poles for?


He also regaled us with stories from "Those Magnificent Men..." etc., etc.
What a guy!

I wish they still used real aircraft in films today.

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Paul

On Sun, 30 Apr 2006 at 08:33:10 in message
, JW²
wrote:
Who remembers "No Highway"? Jimmy Stewart, I seem to remember. Anything
of Nevil Shute's had to be good, in my eyes!

JW²

I remember it well! Nobody has yet mentioned Howard Hugh's Hell's
Angels yet have they? That had some amazing dog fight scenes and
enormous effort went into it - all real aircraft and made in 1930.
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David CL Francis

("David CL Francis" wrote)
I remember it well! Nobody has yet mentioned Howard Hugh's Hell's Angels
yet have they? That had some amazing dog fight scenes and enormous effort
went into it - all real aircraft and made in 1930.


I haven't seen it, except for the making of Hell's Angels scenes in The
Aviator (2004)


Montblack

"Montblack" wrote in message
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("David CL Francis" wrote)
I remember it well! Nobody has yet mentioned Howard Hugh's
Hell's Angels yet have they? That had some amazing dog fight
scenes and enormous effort went into it - all real aircraft
and made in 1930.


I haven't seen it, except for the making of Hell's Angels scenes
in The Aviator (2004)


I mentioned it in another thread. I rented it after watching The Aviator,
and it is a good movie. The DVD restoration has great quality, and it even
has the 10 minute intermission on the DVD. I guess people couldn't sit
still for 2 hours back then.

Montblack wrote:

I remember it well! Nobody has yet mentioned Howard Hugh's Hell's Angels
yet have they? That had some amazing dog fight scenes and enormous effort
went into it - all real aircraft and made in 1930.


I haven't seen it, except for the making of Hell's Angels scenes in The
Aviator (2004)

it is available in DVD,

--Sylvain