Aviation Movies - your top 5?

("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

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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

NickC wrote:
'Bat 21' with Danny Glover and Gene Hackman has some good Birddog
footage, but maybe the best flying scene I've ever seen is a P-51 (?
from memory) coming in for aerial support and flying about 20' above
the ground, rolling it knifedge to pass between two trees, then rolling
it up and climbing away, with vapour vortexs streaming off the wing
tips. Great visually, and great flying. Made before CGI, too.



NickC,

Oh YEAH! great flick!

good call!

elZee

NickC wrote:
'Bat 21' with Danny Glover and Gene Hackman has some good Birddog
footage, but maybe the best flying scene I've ever seen is a P-51 (?
from memory) coming in for aerial support and flying about 20' above
the ground, rolling it knifedge to pass between two trees, then rolling
it up and climbing away, with vapour vortexs streaming off the wing
tips. Great visually, and great flying. Made before CGI, too.



It was an A-1 Skyraider I beleive. Korean vintage attack aircraft that
came into it's own in SE Asia. Basically from I've been told it was a
flying tank. Low, slow and could take a beating!

news.ozemail.com.au wrote:
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.



Always is a favorite

also Aviator, not 2004, but Christopher Reeve/Ernest Gann

Pushing Tin is funny.

Though not realistic by any means.

:-)

Frode

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news.ozemail.com.au wrote:
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.



Always is a favorite

also Aviator, not 2004, but Christopher Reeve/Ernest Gann

news.ozemail.com.au wrote:
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.



Battle of Britain
Dam Busters
Reach For The Sky

Any other aviation/war/true story you can think of that wasn`t
made Hollywood (Land of Bull****)
Simmo

No one mentioned

"A Guy Named Joe"
Spencer Tracy, Clark Gable

"Flying Tigers"
John Wayne

"Operation Crossbow"

Have a look at "Cloud Dancer" - lots of aerobatic stuff in Pitts's.

Also "Men of the Fighting Lady" - 1950's