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Great movie. If there is any movie that mixes avation and science fiction, it would probably be "The Final Countdown".

I would like to see some other a movie where fighter pilots fight aliens, I know Independence Day did that but there is just something...

My list
-memphis belle
-The Right Stuff
-The Man Without a Face (title probably not accurate, It about a boy that wants to become a fighter pilot in the 60)
-October Sky
-Air Force One (ok, it had a good plot)

there probably others that I'm forgeting.

The Final Countdown is about the Nimitz going back to Pearl Harbour.

Take a look here
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0080736

Since we are talking about airplanes going through time, the TV movie "The Langoliers" was a good one.

Look here
http://www.firsttvdrama.com/show2/history/lango.php3

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I think this can be explained by the fact that the Spitfire remained in sevice well after 1945. Earlier marks were also in demand by other nations. Check out the histories of just two of the Mark IXs on the current display circuit.
MH434. Ray Hanna's personal aircraft & probably the most famous Spitfire now flying. http://www.ukwarbirds.fsnet.co.uk/profiles%20MH434.htm
ML407. Carolyn Grace's 2-seat version. http://www.ukwarbirds.fsnet.co.uk/operators%20%20grace.htm My dream is to have a flight in it some day.
Also a list of all airworthy warbirds currently in the UK.
http://www.ukwarbirds.fsnet.co.uk/warbird_directory.htm

1,000s of unwanted surplus aircraft would have been broken up for scrap with no hesitation at the end of WWII. Some naval types were simply pushed over the side of their carriers. Nobody foresaw the demand for these types over 50 years later. I know of many that were purchased for the crates they came in rather than the aircraft.

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I would have thought it would have been far less. I know you could purchase an ex-RAF Tiger Moth in 1946 for around £75. That's how many flying clubs got re-established after the war. I remember reading an Avro Vulcan could be yours for around £1,000 when they were finally retired in 1984. That's providing you had somewhere to keep it of course. It would be in unairworthy condition & much of the equipment would have been stripped out. Jeremy Clarkson, the popular TV presenter has a Harrier as a garden ornament. This was featured in one of his recent programs.

Yo brensec and phil509,
  I belive your both thinking of an original "Outer Limits" episode in which a X-15 test pilot and his wife, who was coming out to see him land, get cought in a time "vortex".  Time for them remains constant while for all others, in "real" time, it has slowed down.  The catch is that "real" time is slowly approacing the "vortex".  If the pilot and his wife are not in the proper locations when the two meet they will remain trapped in the "vortex", between "times".

The Old Outer Limits, that’s hard to fish out.

There seems to be lots of time slowing down stories. Like the younger population might remember the episode of "Erie Indiana" when the world had to set their clocks behind (day light savings time) except for the town of Erie Indiana. The main character sets his clock back anyways and wakes up in a parallel universe where the town is the same but there seems to be nobody. He then finds garbage men that destroy anything that does not belong in that universe. The there is a milk man that helps him know where he is, which is a place that is some "empty hour back universe". Then he finds am other person that made the same mistake and are now stuck together. The character eventually communicates with his brother in the real universe through a milk carton. He tells him to set the watch an hour ahead to counter act which he did. Then he and the other person goes back to the universe.

Cool plot though, with the X-15. Nuclear engery and the sound barrier seemed to boggel the mind of scientist then.

I think this is the one you mean Cherokee. “B-29, Frozen in Time”.  http://www.rb-29.net/HTML/03RelatedStories/03.03shortstories/03.03.09contss.htm

Airplane

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Hotshots

Both very funny

     To my mind, the best single aviation film is the original silent WINGS (real WWI aircraft flown by real WWI pilots having real WWI in-flight fires and real WWI dying-in-horrific-accidents) and TWELVE O"CLOCK HIGH (real B17s flying from real WWII aerodromes).  No, the TWO best aviation films are WINGS, TWELVE O'CLOCK HIGH, and FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX.  I'll start over.
     The THREE best aviation films are WINGS, TWELVE O"CLOCK HIGH, FLIGHT OF THE PHEONIX, and BATTLE OF BRITAIN.
     All right, the FOUR best are those above and STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND.  Or anything with James Stewart.
     My vote for worst aviation disaster movie of all time?  "PEARL HARBOR, the dramatic story of how the evil Imperial Empire launched a dastardly sneak attack on an American love triangle."  Or its alternate trailer, "An hour and a half of lovestruck nimrods broken up by 15 minutes of spectacular cinematography treated as an afterthought."  Bloody Putzes!
     As to FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX, Paul Mantz was the man killed flying the "1/3 of a Skytruck"--which his firm, TALLMANTZ Aviation in Hollywood, built from an actual Fairchild C-82 aircraft.  He and his partner Frank Tallman had the biggest 'air force' in the country at one time next to the USAF, comprised of surplus aircraft bought after WWII.  You wanted an airplane flown through a billboard or a barn?  Crashed into a fuel tanker?  You called Mantz and Tallman.  Dag blag neat guys.  No computer magic, either.  The final flight scene in FOTP where the 'airplane' goes over the ridgetop?  That's where the actual pilot was killed.  Makes you think.