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Flight of the Intruder (book really was better)
And ...
Bat 21
Need to be in the list, also.
And ...
Bat 21
Need to be in the list, also.
Flight of the Intruder (book really was better)
And ...
Bat 21
Need to be in the list, also.
There are just too many! I'm a movie collector, and have most all of them. VHS, Laser Disc, DVD, and BlueRay. My favorite aviation scene is still the B-36 takeoff in Strategic Air Command.
By the way, another one that I haven't seen listed is "Mother Lode". Excellent flying scenes, including an unplanned float plane crash into a mountain lake, which was re-written into the story. After sitting in a vault for many years due to legal reasons, it was released on DVD last year.
L.Adamson
The MST3K version of Starfighters is indeed a classic!MST3K: The Starfighters (Karen can't stop laughing at the jokes cracked during the hudeously long air refueling scenes.)
"Fast Times at Ridgemont High" was an aviation movie for Captain, because every time he watches the pool scene with Phoebe Cates, he gets ... Ummm... Elevated.
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Now I didn't list it but if we are talking best aviation scene i gotta go with Empire of the Sun where the pilots salute Christian Bale. Second best is the P-51 flyby scene later in the movie. I guess that movie could be in my top 5 but I'm not sure it would be considered an aviation movie.
The Great Waldo Pepper is one of the best because it's most likely the last actual Curtiss JN-4 air to air we're ever going to get. Frank Tallman was responsible for most of that stuff and if he hadn't been killed in the filming of Flight of the Phoenix we'd probably have been blessed with much more of that kind of stuff.
I just received my 25th anniversary BluRay disc of Empire of the Sun last week. Cranked up the volume, just as the P-51's got in to the picture. It was GREAT!
L.Adamson
My top five favorite movies fall into three different categories.
Drama, Chick Flick and Documentaries.
In the Drama category...
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Chick Flick nominations go to... (Note that Top Gun is also in this category)
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Documentary Aviation Films
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My top five favorite movies fall into three different categories.
Drama, Chick Flick and Documentaries.
In the Drama category...
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Chick Flick nominations go to... (Note that Top Gun is also in this category)
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Documentary Aviation Films
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"Piece of Cake" twice now? Never heard of it.
It was the great pilot Paul Mantz that was killed in Flight of the Phoenix.
I think Speed & Angels has the best air to air footage of any documentary. Besides Top Gun, it gives the best perspective of what dogfighting feels like.
Die hard 2 must get a mention.
A mention for what? Being absolute crap as an aviation movie?
1. Top Gun
2. Top Gun
3. Top Gun
4. Top Gun
5. Top Gun
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A mention for what? Being absolute crap as an aviation movie?
C'mon, you know it has some of the greatest ATC footage ever! Only Pushing Tin portrays your job more accurately.![]()
Oh, come on, what better movie out there for dramatization of ATC?
Wait, TopGun didn't make the 'Documentary Aviation Films' too???
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Looks like Wikipedia has a web page with a list of aviation-related films; it currently lists 674 such movies:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Aviation_films
Another good site is the Internet Movie Plane Database:Looks like Wikipedia has a web page with a list of aviation-related films; it currently lists 674 such movies:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Aviation_films
The site appears to be more of a plane spotter versus movies about aviation.Another good site is the Internet Movie Plane Database:
http://www.impdb.org/index.php?title=The_Internet_Movie_Plane_Database
Ron Wanttaja
FWIW, it is obscure, but there was a documentary about the 1971 fatal hijacking of 58N (Aero Commander 681).I found it interesting that while almost every conceivable type of modern aircraft is listed, there was not a single Rockwell Commander in any movie.![]()
It has, it has, it has, but not in the direct context of a list (Discussion of the preference for real airplanes vs. CGI).I'm surprised Tora! Tora! Tora! hasn't been mentioned...