Must have aviation movies

I hate to say it but I was in Jet Pilot.

No way! Which part did you get to play?
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Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

*Top Gun (....barf) & Hot Shots

???

I think Top Gun has the best air-to-air combat footage of any airplane movie
ever made.

Hot Shots, while occasionally funny, is almost unwatchable.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Not seen much and so far not mentioned from the early 80s, "The Pilot" with
Cliff Robertson. Story line of a drunk airline pilot with some decent flying in
a Pitts thrown in.

Best line in the move, "There I was in the Sea of Cotez, floating on a bunch of
titties". You have to see it too understand. Mentioned the movie to Cliff at
OSH about 10 years ago and he said he had a blast making it.
Walt

"Forever Young" (1992), with Mel Gibson, has a terrific "flight training"
scene set in a tree house.

"Zero Hour". Ya gotta watch that BEFORE you watch "Airplane". "Airplane"
takes it's entire plot from "Zero Hour"...including big chunks of the exact
dialog. Makes "Airplane" even funnier after you see the "original".
Trust me!

"Jon Woellhaf" wrote in message
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"Forever Young" (1992), with Mel Gibson, has a terrific "flight training"
scene set in a tree house.

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

"Big John" wrote in message
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Tom

I hate to say it but I was in Jet Pilot.

You were Janet Leigh in a previous life?



Big John


On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 10:10:26 -0700, "Tom Sixkiller"
wrote:


"Ian" wrote in message
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What are some "must have" movies that have an aviation theme in them?
I
want to get a collection together and I was wanting some input from the
group.


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".

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:4NdQb.130225$I06.1128830@attbi_s01...
*Top Gun (....barf) & Hot Shots

???

I think Top Gun has the best air-to-air combat footage of any airplane
movie
ever made.

Hot Shots, while occasionally funny, is almost unwatchable.

You need to pay closer attention.

"Tune2828" wrote in message
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on the same topic i just saw "6 days 7 nights" on cable last night.

pretty lame romantic comedy, but it portrayed the pilot as a off beat yet
responsible character - who even started to turn back before getting
trapped in
bad weather.

i wonder if harrison ford (a pilot) had anything to do with it - i can
see
him in a meeting saying "that's ridiculous" when a writer proposes a wing
falls

He actually did some flying for the movie (wing mounted camera shots), and
liked the D-H so much he bought one for himself shortly thereafter.

"Nomen Nescio" ] wrote in message
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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"!

Yeah!

BTW..._Jet Pilot_ was only great for the air footage.