Aviation Movies - your top 5?

'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.


--
Nick

Who remembers "No Highway"? Jimmy Stewart, I seem to remember. Anything
of Nevil Shute's had to be good, in my eyes!

JW²

JW² nadejackatoptusnetdotcomdotau wrote:
Who remembers "No Highway"? Jimmy Stewart, I seem to remember. Anything
of Nevil Shute's had to be good, in my eyes!

It was titled "No Highway in the Sky" in the U.S. market. Great movie - saw
it on TV when I was a kid. I haven't seen it in decades but I still vividly
remember the scene where Stewart's character retracts the airplane's
landing gear while it's on the ground.

On Sun, 30 Apr 2006 01:09:12 -0000, Jim Logajan wrote:

I still vividly
remember the scene where Stewart's character retracts the airplane's
landing gear while it's on the ground.

Friend of my father did that in rather more spectacular style. During the
Berlin airlift they were in the habit of drinking until the small hours
before setting off back to England. They did the usual of going to a show,
drinking lots and getting little sleep, and set out at dawn with his
co-pilot playing host to a monumental hangover.

They taxied with the co pilot slumped in his seat looking green, and he
decided to leave him to it. As they turned onto the runway he looked at the
co pilot and said "c'mon mate, cheer up!"

"Righto skip, gear up."

Crunch, splinter, grind

"No mate I said cheer up."

Try this list!


http://www.coastcomp.com/av/fltline2/avmovie.htm


regards


ian

("JW²" wrote)
Who remembers "No Highway"? Jimmy Stewart, I seem to remember. Anything of
Nevil Shute's had to be good, in my eyes!


No Highway in the Sky (1951)
http://rinkworks.com/movies/m/no.highway.in.the.sky.1951.shtml

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0043859/combined
I have not seen this one - will have to watch for it.

Looking through some old movies I HAVE NOT SEEN:

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0023973/#comment
"The Eagle and the Hawk" (1933)
Fredric March
Cary Grant
Jack Oakie
Carole Lombard

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0027221/#comment
"Wings in the Dark" (1935)
Cary Grant
Myrna Loy

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0031762/
"Only Angels Have Wings" (1939)
Cary Grant
Jean Arthur
Richard Barthelmess
Rita Hayworth

I've seen bits and pieces of this movie. I did see the Ford Tri-Motor crash
scene!

[From the link]
"This is one of the great tough romances, whose real romance is with death
itself, which needless to say makes it several steps darker than Hawks'
superficially similar To Have and Have Not, let alone Rio Bravo (which
reproduces its main characters almost exactly-- Grant as John Wayne,
Arthur/Angie Dickinson as the woman trying to get into the boy's club,
Barthelmess/Dean Martin as the guy with a guilty past of failure, and
Mitchell as the guy who age is catching up with/ Walter Brennan, old age
fully caught up)."

I bet Chili Palmer (John Travolta in "Get Shorty") didn't know THAT!!


Sky Giant (1938) Howard Hughes?
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0030760/
Good review of this film - near bottom.

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0224242/
Test Pilot (1957) Arthur Hailey short, staring James Doohan

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0040353/
Fighter Squadron (1948)
"Of course 'Fighter Squadron' employed P-51D Mustangs to depict Luftwaffe
Me.109G's. Big deal: how many films use the wrong gear to portray the right
gear? (Duh...Hollywood = PRETEND!)"


Montblack

"Montblack" wrote

No Highway in the Sky (1951)
http://rinkworks.com/movies/m/no.highway.in.the.sky.1951.shtml

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0043859/combined
I have not seen this one - will have to watch for it.

Good flick. I had forgotten about that one. If you don't want to know
about the central conflict and resolution of the plot, don't read this post
any further, because I am about to give it away. Others, scroll down.






He retracted the gear because he was about to take off (or a plane he was
nearby to) on a type of airplane that was experiencing catastrophic failures
at a certain number of hours, and this craft was about to go above those
hours on the upcoming flight. It delays the takeoff, by pulling the gear
up, until testing confirms the problem.
--
Jim in NC

("Morgans" wrote)
Good flick. I had forgotten about that one. If you don't want to know
about the central conflict and resolution of the plot, don't read this
post any further, because I am about to give it away. Others, scroll
down.




Jimmy Stewart is a man!


Col: You could always make it up to her. When a girl runs out like that, she
generally wants to be followed.
Fergus: She's not a girl, Col.
Col: Whatever you say.


Montblack :-)

the tail will fall off the Reindeer



"JW²" nadejackatoptusnetdotcomdotau wrote in message
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| Who remembers "No Highway"? Jimmy Stewart, I seem to
remember. Anything
| of Nevil Shute's had to be good, in my eyes!
|
| JW²

On Sun, 30 Apr 2006 at 08:33:10 in message
, JW²
wrote:
Who remembers "No Highway"? Jimmy Stewart, I seem to remember. Anything
of Nevil Shute's had to be good, in my eyes!

JW²

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.
--
David CL Francis