Favorite Aviation Movie?

[Arnie Pye]

Does Snakes on a Plane count?

I'm honestly surprised that Memphis Belle didn't come up earlier.

[boeingboy]

Always

Love the old firebombers

[dougj]

Murphy’s War. Starring the Grumman Duck, with Peter O’toole as co-star. Frank Tallman is not gentle with the rare (even rarer after filming) amphib.

[challenger_nami]

Soul Plane

[2R]

Dr Strangelove hands down.

"Goldy, how many times have I told you guys I don't want no horsin' around on the airplane?"

"I'm not horsing around sir."

"We'll I've been to one world fair a picnic and a rodeo and that's the stupidest thing I've ever heard come over a pair of earphones."

Although the Blue Max is pretty good too.

"I am ... comfortable in the air Herr Hoffman"

Can we count tv shows? Private Plane from Black Adder is obviously the best aviation themed 22 minutes ever recorded.

"Had to dump the kite on the proles"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WI5B7jLWZUc
Peter Sellers best line in a movie : no fighting in the War Room

If you pay attention to the Spitfire flying in the Battle of Britain you will see the correct way to execute ground staffing of enemies, the plane was flown low enough to make level head shots from the cannons , they had to climb to get over the sheep fence

[photofly]

Nobody has mentioned The Dam Busters yet have they?

[CJKk]

Not sure if this totally counts but the animated movie Porco Russo is pretty great. It's on Netflix Canada

[Broker]

Those Magnificent Men and Their Flying Machines. 1965 comedy.

[g5]

Whiskey Romeo Zulu

[privateer]

Die Hard 2

[Reverse Thrust]

Agreed... ‘Memphis Belle’ and ‘Always’ are great for old bombers.

Also ‘Bat-21’ (gotta love the Cessna 337)

And ‘High Road to China’... beautifully shot WW-I bi-plane scenes. Good luck finding it though.

[ahramin]

And ‘High Road to China’... beautifully shot WW-I bi-plane scenes. Good luck finding it though.

https://thepiratebay.org/description.php?id=27301691

[TeePeeCreeper]

Speaking of which...

Has anyone mentioned “Hell’s Angels”?

[rookiepilot]

A bridge too far, for DC 3 Fans.

[2R]

Nobody has mentioned The Dam Busters yet have they?

Excellent movie , Two Lancaster pilots used to drink in my local pub . Their stories were quite frightening. One of the mechanics that worked on the Lancasters had his blankets shot off him while sleeping . If he had of been sleeping on his side he might have had a few holes in him . He went on to convert the Bombers into aerial sprayers in the spruce bud worm programme in Quebec . They were some clever guys on that job . They hit the target without any GPS .
It would be impossible to make such a movie in today’s political revisionist PC culture .

[complexintentions]

Wouldn't say it's my favourite, but try "Tmavomodrý svět" (Dark Blue World).

A better version of "Pearl Harbor". Czech fighter pilots who formed their own squadron within the RAF after Czechoslovakia was betrayed by the Munich Accord in 1938.

Dark Blue World

Netflix Link

[porcsord]

Fly Girls (2010)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1603837/

You can thank me later.

[Siddley Hawker]

Four of Ernest Gann's books were made into movies, The Aviator, The High And The Mighty, The Island In The Sky, and Fate is the Hunter. FITH is such an excretable movie Gann sued Universal Pictures and had his name and any reference to him, removed from the film. The Aviator is pretty good, stars Robert Redford as a prewar mail pilot that crashes in Colorado in the middle of the winter, with a child as a passenger.

The other two are without peer as far as aviation movies go. Both star John Wayne. The High And The Mighty is about a flight with a DC-4 between HNL and SFO. Just past the point of no return they have a runaway prop on number one engine that departs the aircraft, punching a hole in the LH main fuel tank on the way by. Wayne plays the aging co-pilot - First Officers had yet to be invented - who bullies the new Captain - played by Robert Stack - into continuing on to SFO instead of ditching near the Farallon Islands, offshore from SFO. Go to YouTube and drop High And The Mighty into their search function for a classic example of CRM.

The Island In The sky is a true story about a C-87 medevac from Narsarsuaq - Bluie West 1 - to Presqu'ile ME. They run into ice northeast of Sept-Iles and are unable to maintain MEA, so the pilot turns to the northwest to try and find a way out of the ice. The aircraft is eventually force landed on a lake a couple hundred miles northwest of Sept-Iles. The movie is about the search. The pilot's name was O'Connor, and the lake bore O'Connor's name until it was flooded out by the James Bay hydroelectric project. After the aircraft was found, the first search plane to land there was a Barkley-Grow from Canadian Airways. I've forgotten the name of the pilot, but his engineer was Pete Midledge, who was our Chief Engineer at Hollinger Ungava Transport until he retired in the 1980's.

[“Bob”]

1941

Captain “Wild” Bill Kelso is my spirit animal.