I'm sure this has been done somewhere and sometime, but I thought I'd give it a shot...

What is your favorite airplane movie?


Mine are:

The Bridges at Toko-Ri
12 O'Clock High
Airplane!

Honorable Mention goes to:

Apocalypse Now
Blackhawk Down
Flight of the Intruder


BTW, the Internet Movie Database lists a 'Movie' called "Uncrating and Assembly of the P-47 Thunderbolt Airplane"  I would love to get ahold of that one!

Yes, those F-18 clips gave me chills!  The words going through my mind when the loads were dropped were: "Behold airpower!"

Part of NS4, (NJROTC Naval Science 4) which is taken by seniors, is mostly lecture. We watch 12 O'Clock High on it about the cause and effect of leadersip in the BG. My tops are.

Behind Enemy Lines
Pearl Harbour
Blackhawk Down
We Were Soldiers

Some others are that get honorable mention:

Empire of the Sun
Bat 21
Memphis Belle

Anything Spielberg touches is gold, but I consider 'Empire of the Sun' one of his best works.  Especially with that P-51 fly-by.

Bat 21 has some fantastic footage, and Gene Hackman is practically a god...

Bhind Enemy Lines
Black Hawk Down
Mempis Belle
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Midwaw
We were Soldiers

Some of the flight sequences in Pearl Harbour were ok, but most of the story line was rubbish imo

I do wanna see Tears of the Sun

i was just thinking that myself ozzy, that has to be the greatest of all time in my opinion

lol 

Like Ozzy said, wheres Top Gun?     

if you really want a list of problems with topgun i could give you one, but in the end most movies involving aviation are inacurate. the thing with topgun is simply if your a russian official would you like to see a bunch of accurate mock up migs being blown to pieces?
although half those movies on your list i have never seen in my life so i cant comment.

I'm reading the book 'We Were Soldiers Once... And Young' by (ret) LT. GEN Harold G. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway. Very interesting. In fact, I happened to read on page 24 about a Captain Louis R. Lefebvre who was a native of Bonners Ferry, Idaho. That's the town I live in I read further later on that he was wounded and had to be evac'ed out of the La Drang Valley on November 14, 1965 which was the first day of the battle portrayed in the movie We Were Soldiers. I looked in the phone book and found a couple local listings for Lefebvre but no Louis Lefebvre. My grandmother told me that he died a while ago. She also told me that a husband of one of my mom's co-workers went to school with him.

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that has a simple reason: the red-flag OPFOR did use Mig's in the past, but had great difficulties in finding the parts for them, so they reverted to F-5's and F-18's in russian splinter-blue Su-27 schemes.

The only migs used in US Airforce training at the moment are the german ones, usually in europe because they are pre-M models without air-refuieling capabilities and small fuel tanks.

I stand corrected.  I remembered it was something ridiculous though.  I loved the 'Mig 4 Phantoms'  I understand it may be a little hard to get ahold of some Russian Migs for a movie, but I've been able to identify an F-5 since I was 12 years old, and an F-4 Phantom maybe even longer.  Admittedly, I may be a little more of an airplane nut than the average Joe, but I think most people would recognize an American plane when they see it.