"Pearl Harbor" still sucks...

As corny as it sounds Ron Howard directed a TV movie with Bette Davis
and Howard Hessman...I think it was "Skyward" or something like that.

Opening scenes with gliders and biplanes was pretty cool, story was
about a girl in a wheelchair learning to fly.

Dr. Strangelove

Needless to say, some serious hangar flying took place

The 'f' in hangar flying is of course silent :-)

Absolutely!

:-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Once upon a time...it was either Solid Gold or something like that had
the music from Flashdance to an aerobatic routine at Oshkosh.
Hopefully somebody else with a better memory saw it or knows where a
video clip can be obtained.

Wasn't Slim Pickens great, and was that James Earl Jones'
first movie?


"Bob Fry" wrote in message
...
| Dr. Strangelove

Jim Maklin wrote:
Anybody care to add to the list of good to great airplane
Hollywood movies?

"Out of Africa".
The movie was good for other reasons as well, but I've always loved the
scenes in which Dennis Fynch-Hatton(sp) flies the biplane around the
African countryside with Karen Blixen in the back of the biplane.
That kind of thing is one of the reasons I want to fly......

Did anyone mention "High Road to China"? Good dogfighting scenes if you can
tollerate all the kissing

jf


"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
ups.com...
Despite this fact, we had a great turnout for our second pilot's movie
night. Our invited friends included the owners of:

...a Bellanca Super Viking
...a '29 Travel Air Biplane
...a Super Cub
...a Swearingen SX-300
...an RV-10 kit (in progress...)
...a Glasair II
...a Rose Parakeet
...and one guy who (I swear) has owned one of everything, in his 80
years on this planet.

Needless to say, some serious hangar flying took place, both before and
after the flick. By popular request, our warm-up movies consisted of
30 minutes of stuff off of our aviation video website,
www.AlexisParkInn.com/aviation_videos.htm.

Everyone suffered through the movie's awful plot (without booing, I'm
glad to report) but we all reveled in the excellent P-40, Spitfire, and
Pearl Harbor battle scenes. Someone smuggled some beer into the
theater (again, dang it), and a good time was had by all!

BTW: We've only got five seats left for Bill Fox' SR-71 Blackbird talk
on Tuesday, May 30. If you're interested and can make it, email me --
first come, first served!
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

"Jim Macklin" wrote in message
news:RtP3g.10238$ZW3.2769@dukeread04...
AJ, you clip too much

And you don't clip enough (or any, as near as I can tell).

Takes all kinds...

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.

Jim Macklin wrote:
Wasn't Slim Pickens great, and was that James Earl Jones'
first movie?


"Bob Fry" wrote in message
...
| Dr. Strangelove

Yeah, I think that was. And Slim Pickens' first role, too. The story,
as I understand it, was that Peter Sellers was originally going to play
the bomber pilot, but he fell on the set and was injured just before
shooting of the B-52 scenes was to start. Slim Pickens was a stage hand
and Stanley Kubrik heard him talking. His thought was, "That guy
wouldn't even have to act!"