Favorite aviation movies!

[howard40]

Dont waste too much time on the computer generated "fly boys" when the blue max is out there.... it is beautiful....and real. Battle of Britain was made in the 60's just as the spanish air force was retiring its "real" German bombers etc!! fantastic!
Watch the airplanes, ignore the stories LOL

[burhead1]

Air America

Blue Thunder Shut up its was GOOD

[I_Drive_Planes]

I'm a big fan of Air America. Chevaliers du Ciel was a shit movie, but it had some great flying scenes in it (think like a French Top Gun, with mirages instead of F-14s). I just ordered the dvd for One Six Right, it looks promising.

[rubberduck]

Steven Spielberg's movie Always with Holly Hunter, John Goodman and Richard Dreyfuss is always a fun one to watch. Some nice WWII planes converted to water bombers and some cool flying shots.

[warbirdpilot7]

Steven Spielberg's movie Always with Holly Hunter, John Goodman and Richard Dreyfuss is always a fun one to watch. Some nice WWII planes converted to water bombers and some cool flying shots.

Good choice... John Goodman flies a PBY Catalina and Dreyfuss flies an A-26 Invader..

Battle of Britian is high on my list as well as Tora Tora Tora.

[beaverbob]

Does anyone remember the movie about a Beaver pilot who takes off with an oil leak and later has an engine failure? During his lengthy stay in the bush he tames a Goose? and sends a message tied to the bird and is ultimately rescued. It was in the late 50's or 60's. I saw it as a ground school lesson.
Bob

[Bushav8er]

Does anyone remember the movie about a Beaver pilot who takes off with an oil leak and later has an engine failure? During his lengthy stay in the bush he tames a Goose? and sends a message tied to the bird and is ultimately rescued. It was in the late 50's or 60's. I saw it as a ground school lesson.
Bob

Was it "Wings of Chance"? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055625/ I saw that but it is rare.

[olorin]

Here are some good ones:
Spitfire
One of our Aircraft is Missing
Reach For The Sky
Flite of The Intruder
30 Seconds over Tokyo
Flying Tigers

Note:
Spitfire and One of Our Aircraft is Missing can be found on a DVD ....The Collector's Series WWII Movies. Also on that DVD is We Dive At Dawn

[208Drvr]

Behind Enemy Lines,

I found a VHS copy of Air America and a machine to play the VHS things. So its looking like my vote would be for Air America.

[sstaurus]

I've never found a copy of the movie, but this footage from 'Murphy's War' has some pretty intense flying with a Duck..

[iflyforpie]

Bat 21!

I forgot about that one until I watched it on Netflix a while back. Awesome movie! Of course I am a little biased since I drive a 337.

[Midnight Sun Flyer]

Mother Lode

How not to land your Beaver on Lake Lovely water.

Mother Loge...Yep I will never forget that one.
My old time favourite was Captains of the Clouds starring James Cagney
also I liked 633 Squadron an outstanding depiction of wartime bravery and courage.

[warbirdpilot7]

Mother Lode

How not to land your Beaver on Lake Lovely water.

Mother Loge...Yep I will never forget that one.
My old time favourite was Captains of the Clouds starring James Cagney
also I liked 633 Squadron an outstanding depiction of wartime bravery and courage.

Good choice! I have asoft spot for the deHavilland Mosquito

[Midnight Sun Flyer]

Mother Lode

How not to land your Beaver on Lake Lovely water.

Mother Loge...Yep I will never forget that one.
My old time favourite was Captains of the Clouds starring James Cagney
also I liked 633 Squadron an outstanding depiction of wartime bravery and courage.

Good choice! I have asoft spot for the deHavilland Mosquito

Me too, My first year flying I flew with a Pilot who flew de Havilland Mosquito's in WW2, I will always cherish my flights with him.

[SpyPilot]

Long time lurker, first time poster.

Thought I'd jump in with a thread bump. So far all my favourites are here, even Deadly Encounter.

Here's a few more that aren't aviation movies but why not widen the list to include movies with great flying scenes.

"It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World" with Mickey Rooney and Buddy Hackett trying to land the Twin Beech after Jim Bachus knocks himself out cold after going into the back to mix up a batch of martini's. There's also a good scene with an old crop duster.

"Fandango". Anyone who's flown skydivers has seen this one for sure.

"Never Cry Wolf" with Brian Dennehy as the bush pilot of a tired old Beaver and Charles Martin Smith sneaking a load of Moosehead into the canoe. Later in the movie Dennehy shows up in a spanking new Porter.

[beaverbob]

Does anyone remember the movie about a Beaver pilot who takes off with an oil leak and later has an engine failure? During his lengthy stay in the bush he tames a Goose? and sends a message tied to the bird and is ultimately rescued. It was in the late 50's or 60's. I saw it as a ground school lesson.
Bob

Was it "Wings of Chance"? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055625/ I saw that but it is rare.

That's the one, I saw it when it was a new movie. Interestingly, the information page said it was the first full length feature movie shot in Canada.

[Rowdy]

"Never Cry Wolf" with Brian Dennehy as the bush pilot of a tired old Beaver and Charles Martin Smith sneaking a load of Moosehead into the canoe. Later in the movie Dennehy shows up in a spanking new Porter.

I know the pilot who did all the flying for that

[bigsky]

"Never Cry Wolf" with Brian Dennehy as the bush pilot of a tired old Beaver and Charles Martin Smith sneaking a load of Moosehead into the canoe. Later in the movie Dennehy shows up in a spanking new Porter.

I know the pilot who did all the flying for that

I think BG flew the Porter, there was also quite a few shots of a Beaver, not sure he flew that.
If I recall, some of the Beaver shots were done while still in the hangar. I believe most of the actual DHC-2 flying shots were done in the Yukon between Whitehorse and Skagway.

But I could stand to be corrected on this...

[Rowdy]

I should have worded that differently, didnt realize it could be taken that way. But yes, BG flew the porter and helped out elsewhere. I'll have to ask em when he gets back from SL.

[hoptwoit]

How about "The last flight of noas ark" a B 29 that gets turned into a boat.

[outsider]

Aviator with Leo
Memphis Belle
Always
The Right Stuff
Fire Fox
Pearl Harbor

[oldtimer]

My all time favorite was "Reach for the Sky, the story of Sir Douglas Bader, the legless WW11 RAF fighter pilot.
Also, in the Great Waldo Pepper, the star of the movie starts an old airplane by handpropping it backwards so that it pops forward after hitting compression and apparently that was the proper way to start that old engine. It has been so long ago that I forget what model engine/airplane it was and who the movie star was who played Waldo.

[I_Heart_Seaplanes]

There is some sort of Beaver/Norseman seaplane mashup in the new TinTin movie, so just another reason I've got to go see that.

[robertsailor1]

Robert Redford played Waldo. Some of the best flying I've ever seen in this movie bar none.

[Aerials]

I'm looking for the name of a movie I saw on TV years ago, I would say it was from the late 90's, involved a guy and girl flying a red beauty of a Pilatus PC-7 or -9 and showed them flying over all the most scenic spots in western Europe on the sunniest days of the year.
Any clues?