Flight 2-0-9'er, you are cleared for take-off.
Captain Oveur: Roger!
Roger Murdock: Huh?
Tower voice: L.A. departure frequency, 123 point 9'er.
Captain Oveur: Roger!
Roger Murdock: Huh?
Victor Basta: Request vector, over.
Captain Oveur: What?
Tower voice: Flight 2-0-9'er cleared for vector 324.
Roger Murdock: We have clearance, Clarence.
Captain Oveur: Roger, Roger. What's our vector, Victor?
Tower voice: Tower's radio clearance, over!
Captain Oveur: That's Clarence Oveur. Over.
Tower voice: Over.
Captain Oveur: Roger.
Roger Murdock: Huh?
Tower voice: Roger, over!
Roger Murdock: What?
Captain Oveur: Huh?
Victor Basta: Who?


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Airplane! Of course 

CaptainCub wrote on Aug 11^th, 2010 at 12:48pm:


As young as I may be, that has to be the greatest aviation movie of all time.  I wonder if it is available on DVD?

Hagar wrote on Aug 11^th, 2010 at 6:59pm:


Ordered a copy this afternoon!

AWW yes...I would have to say the best aviation movie of all time is "Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines" followed by "Captains of the Clouds" which was filmed right here in Trenton, Ontario.   

Another great was the "Battle of Britain"...the music was fantastic as well.

Now the old grey matter is not what it used to be but in the film "Battle of Britain" when the Polish Squadron left their British Squadron Leader behind to go after the Nazis he muttered something and for the life of me I can't remember what it was now...but it was a good line...

Perhaps someone else might remember?   

Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug

DaveSims wrote on Aug 11^th, 2010 at 10:33pm:


This movie is full of great lines.
I asked for (and recieved) a copy for Christmas last year.
Its a family favorite, along with "The Great Race".

"Yes of course its a flying machine.. its got um...   propellers. Yes, it must be."

Quote:

Here's some more of my fav lines from the film:

"You are sure it will fly?"
"Of Course it will fly, what do you think it's going to do, lay an egg?"

"If we were meant to fly, we'd have wings!"
"But father, you ride on trains but you don't have any wheels."

"I think I'll get me one of those."
"Oh no you don't, you're close enough to your wings as it is." (the older couple who help out the English hero when he's forced down with a clogged fuel line)

"A knife, give me a knife!"
"You're not about to commit Hari kari are you?"
"No you idiot, I have to cut myself out of here!" (The after crash exchange between the Japanese flyer and the head of the fire crew. Still makes me laugh )

And since some mentioned the GReat Race, here's Jack Lemmon's classic line as Proffessor Fate after he's slammed through a barn while being towed by a Curtis Pusher:
"I'd like to see the Graet Leslie try that one!"

Flying Trucker wrote on Aug 12^th, 2010 at 8:39am:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXf1bhEEXd0
"Unless you're blind as well as.... Oh god struth...."

My favourites have to be that conversation from Airplane! as well as the general bickering between the French and Germans in those magnificent men.

Another favorite part of the movie is Gert Forbe as the German Colonel "Beat Boxing" a Prussian military march as the goose stepping ground crew pushes the German plane out of the hanger.

"Are you two fighting over me? Good!" Sarah Miles as Patricia Ralston exiting the ladies "Bathing machine" (A changing room on wheels) at the Dover shore just after Orville the American pilot decks her "Fiance" Richard. Shortly after this there is an exchange filled with sexual inuendo as she suggests that she and Orville slip away back to the aerodrome before everyone else. There is a wonderful pause as Orville (And us) thinks she's suggesting a little hanky panky, but then she reveals she wants to go up in his plane!

We can't forget the Rocketeer:

Cliff Secord after a wild ride through a barn and across a pond courtesy of the rocket pack: "I LIKE IT!"

Howard Hughes as Secord escapes FBI agents by gliding out of a hanger beneath a windtunnel model of the Spruce Goose:
"I'll be damned, it will fly!"

CaptainCub wrote on Sep 1^st, 2010 at 1:12pm:


The German officers and their fued with the French are some of the best parts of the movie.

After getting the tailess german plane under control, and the Colonel is speeding at them in the sidecar of the driverless motorcycle, you here someone yell:
"IT'S ANOTHER GERMAN!"

I showed this to my 12 year old daughter just a few weeks ago. She laughed all the way through it.