Something wrong here, Top Gun greatest movie for EAA?

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The Udvar-Hazy annex to the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum has a small
model of the twin radial engine amphibian biplane flown in the movie. I
don't remember what it was, but what a beautiful plane!


Here are some pics of the VERY plane that was in the movie.

The Sikorsky S-38 left the National Air Tour a few days after these pics
were taken, so they had time to repaint it - and get it out West for the
movie's shooting schedule.

http://www.alexisparkinn.com/national_air_tour.htm
National Air Tour 2003

http://www.nationalairtour.org/pilotplanespeople/aircraft_info.cfm?aircraft_id=11
Info about the plane and the owner

http://nosuchblog.blog-city.com/the_aviator_and_the_s38_random_sikorsky_seaplane_t rivia.htm
Much info here - read through the posts

The rest of the links are from Jay's National Air Tour 2003 site:

http://www.alexisparkinn.com/photogallery/SMALL%20Jay%20&%20Mary%20with%20Pilatus%209-03.jpg

http://www.alexisparkinn.com/photogallery/SMALL%20American%20Airways%20biplane%209-03.jpg

http://www.alexisparkinn.com/photogallery/SMALL%20Sikorsky%20S-38%20Osa's%20Ark%20%209-03.jpg
Single Engine Sikorsky S-39

http://www.alexisparkinn.com/photogallery/SMALL%20Sikorsky%20S-39%20at%20Anoka%209-03.jpg

http://www.alexisparkinn.com/photogallery/SMALL%20Jay%20&%20Paul%20with%20the%20S-38%20%209-03.jpg


Montblack

On May 10, 1:00 am, Jerry Wass wrote:
Thank YOU for your comments and the listing of all the movies nominated,
of course the later movies are still fresh in peoples minds-9 ('CEPT us
old fogeys w/alzheimers) I feel certain that most of this groups members
appreciate your toiling with the figures, regardless of the outcome. THANKS

wrote:
I ran this poll for EAA and am very interested in this thread... would
like to assure everyone that the voting was not rigged! Top Gun did
genuinely receive the most votes, although it was quite a close-run
thing with Twelve o' Clock High.

... (The top 10 on this list are the ones that
were ultimately voted on in the main poll which received 10,270
votes).


I assume from the description that the last participants
in the final vote had ten choices and that _Top Gun_
received a plurality (less than 50%) of the votes. Sort
of like how Arnold Shwartzenegger was elected Gropenator
of California.

If so, aside from what Mr Wass noted, there is another effect
in play here, which is a 'dilution' effect. Had the voting been
single elimination, in which the movie receiving the fewest
votes had been eliminated followed by another round of
voting, and THAT process continued until one movie received
a majority, the result might have been different.

Of course multiple runoff voting is much more logistically difficult,
even if more accurate.

IIUC, there is plan so show several of these at Oshkosh. It
might be interesting to poll those viewers viewers afterwards.

--

FF

Jay Honeck wrote:

We had very good feedback to the Fly-In Theater last year, look
forward to seeing some of you there in July!

Adam Smith
Museum Director
EAA

What kneaux:

Soul Plane = http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0367085
or
Snakes on a Plane = http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0417148

Thanks, Adam, for the great list. I am stealing it, of course,
because I'm running out of ideas for our "Movie Night at the Inn".

(Every Tuesday night we show a free aviation movie in the theater
inside our aviation-themed hotel in Iowa City, IA, the Alexis Park Inn
& Suites. Admission, snacks and beverages are always free, as is time
on our full-sized flight simulator! :-)

I've become something of an aviation movie expert over the last year,
simply through complete immersion therapy! Here's a list of the
movies we've shown on Movie Night since March of 2006:

In 2006 we showed:

Air Force One
Airplane
Apollo 13
Aviator
Battle of Britain
Blackhawk Down
Black Sky
Bridges at Toko-ri
Con-Air
Flight of the Phoenix
Flying Tigers
Great Waldo Pepper
Hell's Angels
High & the Mighty
The Hunters
Island in the Sky
Memphis Belle (Original)
Memphis Belle (Hollywood)
Midway
One Six Right
Pearl Harbor
Prelude to War
Wright Stuff
Spirit of St Louis
30 Seconds Over Tokyo
Top Gun
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Tuskegee Airmen
Twelve O'Clock High
Wing & A Prayer

In 2007 we've showed:
Tuesday, 1/2/07 United 93
Tuesday, 1/9 Flight Plan
Tuesday, 1/16 The Blue Max
Tuesday, 1/23 Flying Leathernecks
Tuesday, 1/30 Airport
Tuesday, 2/6 Passenger 57
Tuesday, 2/13 Airport '77
Tuesday, 2/27 Flyboys
Tuesday, 3/6 Pushing Tin
Tuesday, 3/20 The War Lover
Tuesday, 3/27 Iron Eagle
Tuesday, 4/3 Jet Pilot
Tuesday, 4/10 Stealth
Tuesday, 4/24 The Dawn Patrol
Tuesday, 5/1 The Final Countdown
Tuesday, 5/8 633 Squadron

Coming up, we're going to be showing:

Tuesday, 5/15 (Tonight!) Air America
Tuesday, 5/22 Behind Enemy Lines
Tuesday, 5/30 Red Eye
Tuesday, 6/6 Always
Tuesday, 6/13 Wings in the Dark

Our lists overlap quite a bit, but I've found a couple of flicks on
yours that we don't own. (Once we buy them, they become free to
borrow for our hotel guests...)

Personally, I found Stealth and Iron Eagle to be the two worst
aviation movies of all time. Many of the John Wayne movies, although
long on great aviation footage, are almost unwatchable due to their
horrible plot, pacing, and acting.

Best? Black Sky, Apollo 13, and The Aviator are quite excellent, as
is One Six Right.

But, yes, I *do* love Top Gun. It's got some of the greatest flying
sequences ever filmed...

What kneaux:

Soul Plane =http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0367085
or
Snakes on a Plane =http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0417148

Dunno about "Soul Plane" (never heard of it) -- but the only way
"Snakes on a Plane" will ever make it to "Movie Night at the Inn" will
be if someone gives the movie to me, free -- and then ties me to a
chair whilst feeding me shots of tequila.

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

Then I guess you will be playing the movie that they made from a long-lost
novel that Harper Lee wrote while living in Mexico for a few years ---
Tequila Mockingbird?


Jim



and then ties me to a
chair whilst feeding me shots of tequila.

Jay Honeck wrote:
What kneaux:

Soul Plane =http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0367085
or
Snakes on a Plane =http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0417148

Dunno about "Soul Plane" (never heard of it) -- but the only way
"Snakes on a Plane" will ever make it to "Movie Night at the Inn" will
be if someone gives the movie to me, free -- and then ties me to a
chair whilst feeding me shots of tequila.

;-)

Snakes On A Plane is a great movie. It is a great movie in the exact same
way the original RoboCop was a great movie. The actors, directors and
everybody else involved realized they had a pile of crap in front of them
when they started. Instead of holding their noses getting through it they
took the mound of crap and made funny sculptors.

All movies don't have to be masterpieces they do need to entertain.

"RST Engineering" wrote:
Jay wrote:

Then I guess you will be playing the movie that they made from a
long-lost novel that Harper Lee wrote while living in Mexico for a few
years --- Tequila Mockingbird?

and then ties me to a chair whilst feeding me shots of tequila.

There might be somebody somewhere who'd be willing to contribute to a
charitable cause to see that...

Does the Inn theater support VCD/SVCD/AVI/Divx/WMV in addition to DVD?