Must have aviation movies

On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 19:00:02 +0100 (CET), Nomen Nescio
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From: "Tom Sixkiller"

Fighter Squadron
12 o'clock High
Gathering of Eagles
Strategic Air Command
Flight of the Phoenix
The Hunters
Jet Pilot
Airplane...okay, maybe not, along with those it satirizes*.
Flying Leathernecks
*Top Gun (....barf) & Hot Shots
Bridges at Toko Ri
Tuskegee Airmen
Captain Eddie

* Not a "Must Have".

You forgot "The Right Stuff"!

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I have a couple of obscure but very good aviation specific movies no
one has mentioned yet:

"Island in the sky" from the book by the same name written by Ernest
K. Gann. Directed by William Wellman with Gann providing technical
expertise, I thought this was one of the most accurately made aviation
movies I've ever seen. John Wayne starred with Lloyd Nolan. Look for
Andy Devine in the cockpit of one of the search C-47's.

It's the story of a downed C-47 in northern Canada during winter circa
1943 or so and the search and rescue of the crew. Taken from an
incident that Gann played a small part in in real life.

"Cloud Dancer" starring David Carrodine and Jennifer O'Neil.
Carrodine portrays a competition aerobatic pilot who begins to suffer
consequences from the constant negative G's in the various
competitions.

The story goes all over the place but includes some scenes with a P-51
that has all it's machine guns being used to protect a drug route.

It was a while ago since I saw it but it was absolutely full of flying
scenes.

Corky Scott

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"Island in the sky" from the book by the same name written by Ernest
K. Gann. Directed by William Wellman with Gann providing technical
expertise, I thought this was one of the most accurately made aviation
movies I've ever seen. John Wayne starred with Lloyd Nolan. Look for
Andy Devine in the cockpit of one of the search C-47's.

It's the story of a downed C-47 in northern Canada during winter circa
1943 or so and the search and rescue of the crew. Taken from an
incident that Gann played a small part in in real life.

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0045919/

Shows out of print. :~(



"Cloud Dancer" starring David Carrodine and Jennifer O'Neil.
Carrodine portrays a competition aerobatic pilot who begins to suffer
consequences from the constant negative G's in the various
competitions.

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0080545/ (shows available only with German
over-dubbing??)


The story goes all over the place but includes some scenes with a P-51
that has all it's machine guns being used to protect a drug route.

It was a while ago since I saw it but it was absolutely full of flying
scenes.

Corky Scott

In addition to numerous others mentioned, a film called "No Highway", based
on the Nevil Shute novel "No Highway in the Sky", is pretty good. Glenn
Ford, and a few other name brand actors, dealing with unexplained airline
crashes. Book was better, but that's not unusual.

There's also a Gann novel called "Blaze of Noon" that was pretty
interesting, dealing with the early airmail/airline days, and might convert
to a pretty good film. It was made into a film in 1947, but I've never seen
it. Anyone?

JG

I heard that there's a movie coming out about Mexico's "Aztec Eagles" P-47
fighter squadron of WWII. Supposed to be like Tuskegee Airmen, except these
guys had it worse--they weren't even allowed back into their country after the
war. It supposedly is gonna have some great Pre-WW1 flying stuff dealing with
the Mexican Revolution.

TPC

A bit of errata on Mexician 'Jugs'.

Was at Swea****er Air Base, TX (after the WASP's had left) going
through P-47 RTU.

First morning of check outs and I was one of the first three to fly.
Cranked the R2800 up and called tower for taxi instructions.

They told me to shut down as just received word to transfer all the
birds to Mexico.

Never did get to fly the bird as I then went into P-51's.

The P-47's were the D-20 model and only had 10 or so hours on them
(brand new). Probably replaced the war weary birds Mexico had in the
Aztec Eagles Squadron.

Big John



On 24 Jan 2004 19:59:24 GMT, (TooPlaneCrazy7)
wrote:

I heard that there's a movie coming out about Mexico's "Aztec Eagles" P-47
fighter squadron of WWII. Supposed to be like Tuskegee Airmen, except these
guys had it worse--they weren't even allowed back into their country after the
war. It supposedly is gonna have some great Pre-WW1 flying stuff dealing with
the Mexican Revolution.

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(Corky Scott) wrote:

On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 19:00:02 +0100 (CET), Nomen Nescio
] wrote:

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From: "Tom Sixkiller"

Fighter Squadron
12 o'clock High
Gathering of Eagles
Strategic Air Command
Flight of the Phoenix
The Hunters
Jet Pilot
Airplane...okay, maybe not, along with those it satirizes*.
Flying Leathernecks
*Top Gun (....barf) & Hot Shots
Bridges at Toko Ri
Tuskegee Airmen
Captain Eddie

* Not a "Must Have".

You forgot "The Right Stuff"!

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I have a couple of obscure but very good aviation specific movies no
one has mentioned yet:

"Island in the sky" from the book by the same name written by Ernest
K. Gann. Directed by William Wellman with Gann providing technical
expertise, I thought this was one of the most accurately made aviation
movies I've ever seen. John Wayne starred with Lloyd Nolan. Look for
Andy Devine in the cockpit of one of the search C-47's.

It's the story of a downed C-47 in northern Canada during winter circa
1943 or so and the search and rescue of the crew. Taken from an
incident that Gann played a small part in in real life.

"Cloud Dancer" starring David Carrodine and Jennifer O'Neil.
Carrodine portrays a competition aerobatic pilot who begins to suffer
consequences from the constant negative G's in the various
competitions.

The story goes all over the place but includes some scenes with a P-51
that has all it's machine guns being used to protect a drug route.

It was a while ago since I saw it but it was absolutely full of flying
scenes.

Corky Scott


How about the scene where Carradine has to "dogfight the P-51 in a (I
think) Cherokee and wins?