Simviation Forum - What is your favorite aviation movie?

Oct 14^th, 2003 at 11:03pm

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Just wanted to get a take on everyones favorite aviation movie...i personally have too many to list entirely.

Blue Max
Pearl Harbor (assuming 40 minutes was edited out)
Flight of the Intruder
Memphis Belle

just to name a few

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Reply #1 - Oct 15^th, 2003 at 12:16am

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Flight of the Intruder
Air America

I love Flight of the Intruder, very good movie... 8)

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Reply #2 - Oct 15^th, 2003 at 12:17am

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My favorite action movie is Braveheart.

By favorite action ever put on film is "Band of Brothers" but thats not a movie.

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Reply #3 - Oct 15^th, 2003 at 12:49am

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We've been down this road a couple of times before, so don't be disheartened if you don't get alot of participation, mate. Wink

I like Battle of Britian (probably my favourite)
Aces High was good
Recently saw a Csech job called "Dark Blue World". It was subtitled but I liked it.
One of the old classics that I like is 12 O'clock High
Oh yeah, and Memphis Belle was good too.

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Reply #4 - Oct 15^th, 2003 at 2:40am

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Top Gun
Blackhawk Down
Behind Enemy Lines
Memphis Belle

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Reply #5 - Oct 15^th, 2003 at 3:15am

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Memphis Belle was a great flick, although I like the version with Kevin Costner in it (the Disney version is just crap!).

Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines was also excellent. They built and flew their own airplanes specifically for the film. A couple are now on display in the Simithsonian.

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Reply #6 - Oct 15^th, 2003 at 6:16am

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Airplane of course Grin

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Reply #7 - Oct 15^th, 2003 at 7:46am

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Appollo 13 Wink

Top Gun

Dambusters

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Reply #8 - Oct 15^th, 2003 at 7:53am

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Battle of Britian
12 O'clock High
The Damn Busters
666 Squadron
Behind Enemy Lines (aviation film ? good film, too little flying)
One of Our Planes Is Missing not sure of name(British circa 1942)

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Reply #9 - Oct 15^th, 2003 at 8:21am

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Airplane of course Grin

I'll go along with that. Cheesy

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Memphis Belle was a great flick, although I like the version with Kevin Costner in it (the Disney version is just crap!).

Ender. I only know of 2 films named Memphis Belle. The original documentary "The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress" released in 1944. Some of the action footage was filmed personally by Hollywood director William Wyler who went along on the "Belle's" last mission. The 1990 feature film "Memphis Belle" was loosely based on it & co-produced by David Putnam & Catherine Wyler (William's daughter). It was distributed by Warner & starred mainly unknown actors. I don't remember Kevin Costner being involved or a Disney version. http://entertainment.msn.com/movies/movie.aspx?mp=c&m=33538

I've seen most films with even a remote link to aviation over more than 50 years. Many excellent British films would probably not be familiar in other countries. I can't remember them all or list one that qualifies as my favourite.

PS. On giving this some thought the 2 films that have most impressed me over the years would be "The Dam Busters" (1954) & "Reach for the Sky" (1956).

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Reply #10 - Oct 15^th, 2003 at 9:41am

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Pushing Tin
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Memphis Belle
Blue Max

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Reply #11 - Oct 15^th, 2003 at 9:57am

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Hagar I do not think I have ever seen "Reach for the Sky" could you give a brief synopsis. If you liked "Damn Busters", I know you have good taste in films, so would like to see "Reach for the Sky" if I have not already. There are so many films I have seen but never knew ,or can't remember their titles.

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P.S. How about "Strategic Air Command"?

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Reply #12 - Oct 15^th, 2003 at 10:09am

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Hagar I do not think I have ever seen "Reach for the Sky" could you give a brief synopsis. If you liked "Damn Busters", I know you have good taste in films, so would like to see "Reach for the Sky" if I have not already. There are so many films I have seen but never knew ,or can't remember their titles.

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P.S. How about "Strategic Air Command"?

Fido. It seems we share the same taste in films. Maybe something to do with our age. Tongue

Reach for the Sky is the story of legendary WWII legless fighter ace Douglas Bader. It's based on the biog of the same title by Paul Brickhill. The film stars Kenneth More as Bader & the acting is superb. http://www.learmedia.ca/product_info.php/products_id/34
More plays Bader sympathetically which I'm not sure is completely accurate. In fact, I always suspected the film is partly responsible for the legend.

I saw all those classic US drama-docs like Strategic Air Command when they were first shown here. I always try to catch them if they're repeated on TV. As you probably know, these were made with the full cooperation of the US services. I thought they were excellent & extremely interesting. Wink

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Reply #13 - Oct 15^th, 2003 at 10:26am

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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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Reply #14 - Oct 15^th, 2003 at 10:36am

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Fido. I don't remember the one you describe. I would think anything concerning the Comet would have been made by a British company starring British actors. I know that at one time many famous Hollywood stars had an arrangement with British film companies as part of their contract. The only film on a similar subject that comes to mind was based on a novel by Neville Shute Norway. He was an aircraft designer as well as author & used the pen-name Neville Shute. I forget the title but this was written before the Comet disasters.

PS. The title was No Highway by Neville Shute (1948 ) Filmed as No Highway In The Sky - 1951 ) The film was made in the UK starring James Stewart. I always assumed it was loosely based on the Avro Tudor, the first British airliner with a pressurised passenger cabin. The Tudor 4 was grounded after 2 were lost in mysterious circumstances in 1948, much like the later Comet disasters.

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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.

Fido

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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TOP GUN! All of the way!

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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.

Fido

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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Reply #30 - Oct 22^nd, 2003 at 3:55pm

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Here goes,

The Sound Barrier - brilliant film, brilliant aeroplanes, exceptional pilots...

The Dam Busters

Memphis Belle

Battle of Britain (good for the warbird business...)

A Matter of Life and Death... (Stairway to Heaven)

I believe the film Fido was referring to is "One of our Aircraft is Missing", by Powell and Pressburger, with Bernard Miles and Peter Ustinov among others...

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