Simviation Forum - What is your favorite aviation movie?

Reply #15 - Oct 15^th, 2003 at 10:39am

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Reply #16 - Oct 15^th, 2003 at 11:26am

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Hagar Thanks, now that I know the films name, I might be able to see it again. It has been at least 10-15 yrs. It would be lilke seeing it anew.

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Reply #17 - Oct 15^th, 2003 at 11:44am

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I've recently been re-reading many of my old favourite books. These are often much better than the films based on them. Now winter is approaching it might be an idea to get all these old films on video or DVD.

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Reply #18 - Oct 15^th, 2003 at 11:56am

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Hagar remember DVDs only last for a year or so, depending on the type of media you use, before they can degrade.

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Reply #19 - Oct 15^th, 2003 at 11:59am

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Hagar Maybe you can help with this. There was a movie base loosely, I think, on the Comet metal fatuge prob of the early jet age. Although, if I remember correctly the Comet was never mentioned, James Stewart played the lead. I realize this is a very sketchy descripton, it's been years, but just thought you might remember.

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I think I saw this many years ago - typical Jimmy Stewart. Is it the one where he is a scientist (dealing in metal fatigue) and he insists that the tails are going to fall off this plane after a certain amount of hours, but no one believes him?
He has a plane set up in a workshop getting the sh*t knocked out of it, to test his theory?
He takes a flight on one he says is doomed, the pilot says he's an 'alarmist'. The plane lands and as they get off, the tail falls off?

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One of Our Planes Is Missing not sure of name(British circa 1942)

Yes that was the name. Made during the war. About a Lanc crew (I think) who bail out over Holland and are helped back to England by the Dutch underground.

After their final boat ride, they end up in the Channel in a German 'survival buoy' with a Luftwaffe fighter pilot (who has also been downed. It is a wait to see whose side fronts first to rescue them! Grin

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Reply #20 - Oct 15^th, 2003 at 12:00pm

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I love the Dambusters (forgot about that one). Very inspiring music! Grin

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Reply #21 - Oct 16^th, 2003 at 12:05am

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The 'Right Stuff' was also good

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Reply #22 - Oct 16^th, 2003 at 3:01am

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Reply #23 - Oct 16^th, 2003 at 9:05am

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Reply #24 - Oct 18^th, 2003 at 6:34pm

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Hagar remember DVDs only last for a year or so, depending on the type of media you use, before they can degrade.

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How can that be? CD's last years so why shouldn't DVD's. Provided you treat them with care and keep it in its case out of direct sunlight then is should keep going.

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Reply #25 - Oct 18^th, 2003 at 9:26pm

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You're right Woody. DVDs, like CDs should be able to last forever if you treat them right. I still have my old Win95 cd and it's in perfect condition, mind you it's now worthless Wink

DVDs will NOT degrade on their own

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Reply #26 - Oct 19^th, 2003 at 12:16am

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My favourites are (in no particular order):

- The Arrow (a Canadian mini-series about the Avro Arrow)
- Top Gun
- Memphis Belle
- Apollo 13
- The Right Stuff
- Flight of the Phoenix

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Reply #27 - Oct 19^th, 2003 at 4:05am

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Reply #28 - Oct 20^th, 2003 at 9:50am

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Reply #29 - Oct 20^th, 2003 at 11:00am

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When you burn a CD or DVD it depend on the coating you are actually burining into as to how long they will last. The CD DVD you buy is made differently then those us burn yourself. Alot depends on the quality of the laser doing the burning. A rewritable disk may only last a little as 18 months. U.S. Geological Survey did a lot of testing and found some DVDs lated longer than others.

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