WINGS (1927)
Whats Your Favourite Aircraft Themed Movie Or TV Show?
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Snakes on a plane.
Pushing Tin
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Shy King. Reason I say I've got a buddy in Chico, CA, with the exact plane who would love to get rid of it. Probably for a song.
I hate to admit, but the original Top Gun. The Right Stuff was a lot of fun too. And does Apollo 13 count?
Owen Bawn
Garden party cupcake scented
John Wayne in The Flying Leathernecks
I loved the honesty of the title of that movie.
Hell's Angels
My favorite scene from Memphis Belle
reminds me of the story of Apollo and Cassandra.
If I remember it right,
one of the guys on the Memphis Belle wanted to have a war story to tell back home.
So while under attack they let him man one of the guns, which was not his station,
and he shoots down an enemy fighter which crashes into the tail of another B17
knocking the bomber out of the sky,
giving him a war story that he can't tell back home.
I grew up on the original as a kid, so seeing an older Tom Cruise reprise the role was sentimental.
Ba ba black sheep what a great show
The blue max
The great waldo pepper was amazing but I might have it confused with those magnificent men in their flying machines
I really liked the new top gun
Midway, flyboys and the tuskegee airmen for new movies are good too
The blue max
The great waldo pepper was amazing but I might have it confused with those magnificent men in their flying machines
I really liked the new top gun
Midway, flyboys and the tuskegee airmen for new movies are good too
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That scene was to me the most powerful and disturbing of the whole film.
The German fighter rips off the rear section of the B17, but the tail gunner is still desperately radioing as he plummets, trapped in the compartment to his death.
That hit me hard, then and now recalling it.
Adding my vote for these:
Memphis Bell
The Flight of the Phoenix
Flyboys
Apollo 13
Baa Baa Blacksheep
Thanks for the ideas of other ones to watch this weekend
Off topic a bit, but if you want to read a true story of honor between enemy pilots, check out "A Higher Call". Incredible!
Memphis Bell
The Flight of the Phoenix
Flyboys
Apollo 13
Baa Baa Blacksheep
Thanks for the ideas of other ones to watch this weekend
Off topic a bit, but if you want to read a true story of honor between enemy pilots, check out "A Higher Call". Incredible!
It would have to be a comedy like Airplane. Working in the aviation field, I quickly pick up stupid mistakes. Take Top Gun 2, when he clipped the nose gear off of the F14. Why did it not, shortly there after, have a total hydraulic fluid loss? Hell, the impact didn’t even affect his flight path. Top Gun was even worse, when he was upside down over another F14, almost canopy on canopy. What about the vertical stabilizers?
Of course, I do this with other types of movies, too. Since Dirty Harry, I subconsciously count the number of rounds fired. I have stopped movies, thought “that’s not right”, rewind and count. Yep- too many rounds fired without reload. The Quick and the Dead would be a great movie, but then the last shootout occurs. After Hackman is shot you can see daylight streaming through the bullet hole. That was so unnecessary. 
