I know I bring this up every time we have a "movie" topic but,
The cheesiest aviation movie I have ever seen was that made for TV pile of crap about the Gimli Glider.
The final scene where the kid is pedaling down the runway on his bike while the plane bears down on him, so the captain yells "Hey kid, get outta tha way kid!" and the kid gets off the runway. Altimeters winding down to zero as the wheels kiss the tarmac, etc, etc.
LMAO every time I see that.
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Harrison Ford's "6 Days, 7 Nights" was hilarious. Ford and that dyke find a immaculate set of floats on a crashed WWII a/c. They lop off the floats which crash to the ground and then send the floats down the river and over a waterfall. The floats remain completely intact thoughout the ordeal (where can I get a pair like this???). Harrison must be a wizard ame as he then perfectly rigs the floats to his Beaver with bamboo and then takes off from a small trench made in the sand. Must have been one strong 985. The beginning of the movie was b.s as well, since when does a lightning strike take out a Beaver??? I can't believe Ford would stoop so low to make that movie as he has his own Beaver which was rebuilt at Kelowna's AOG (must have needed the money from the movie to pay Dave Baron).
Another b.s scene was from Hank's "Castaway." The Airbus crashes into the ocean and remains nearly intact except for the one wing which seperated. As Tom was swimming away from the wreck, the engine was still spooled up and attached to the broken wing which was floating towards Tom (pretty sturdy CFM's).
as pilots we all know that we could get lost up there in the clouds and have ATC chew you a new one but greas it on the runway and everone would think that is was the best flight that they had but have a great flight and hamer it on the runway and it was the worst flight ever we all know that the the hole flight is based on the landing.
So I rented that cheezy Marilyn Manson wannbe rock concert on the 747 movie last night - it is fickin awesome!
You all have to go rent that one.
During "Slade Craven's" last rock concert on board a 747 (being broadcast live on the web) someone from a satanic cult takes over the airplane with the goal of crashing it into an "evil church in kansas". Craven is helped over "secret radio" by a computer hacker to take control of the airplane while some tool FBI agents listen.
The FBI calls "FAA headquarters" in San Diego to warn them they are in danger and to evacuate. Apparently, FAA headquarters is in a VFR tower next to a barn. Just as the controller says "there is no danger here" the field next to the tower blows up (which pushes the guy OUT of the window in the cab).
Eventually Craven has to land the plane and the hacker hooks up remotly on FS98 to help him out! Turn right he says! As the yoke goes right, the closeup of the AI banks left. Then a 747 pilot arrives at Kansas Center and when asked to help says "no, those two are doing all the right things. They have a special relationship now. If I interfere, that thing will probably crash." WTF!?!?!?
Please go rent Turblence 3: Heavy Metal. You will piss your pants.
I am glad to see someone refresh this thread. It is funny. One of the best air oriented movies was Murphy's War where a British sailor from a torpedoed ship discovers both the German sub and an old Grumman Duck floatplane in the Amazon River during WW11. Some of the best water scenes ever and the aero's in that old Duck were priceless. Got a bit hoakey when Peter O'Toole strapped jugs under the wing to bomb the sub but the flying scenes were priceless.
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The movie opens with a PBY flying into the screen and then finding a raft on the ocean. Some really great shots of a PBY in flight
We flew over fifteen hours for the few minutes in the film, and at the end of the movie in the credits it was cast in order of apperance so I got to be first because we opened the movie.
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oldtimer wrote:You can't hand prop a Navajo. not because of compression, they are low compression engines, as are all turbo'd engines, but the "shower of sparks" is required to retard the ignition spark and boost the starting voltage to the plugs.
I don't think thats entirely correct. We've got a Fokker DR1 replica thats powered by a warner super scarab, and it uses a shower of sparks when starting. It was also hand proped for years before a starter was installed on it. Not saying you can necessarily hand porp a Navajo (never tried), but if you can't its not because the thing uses a shower of sparks.
I think it was a Charlie's Angels flick. Driving a military transport truck across a bridge with a massive helicopter in the back with folded rotors. Whole thing goes off the bridge when hit by a missile and on the way down they all jump in, unfold the rotors, start multiple engines and fly away. Yeah, I could have done it...
1/Fate is the hunter (orginal with glenn ford canadain actor too!)
2/battle of britan
3/ tora tora tora. long but historically interersting. in surround sound whoa
4/ top gun -ya is is cheesy in parts but some of us decided that would be a cool job.
5/the orginal FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX CIRA1955
6/ jOHN WAYNE IN THE FLYING TIGERS 1940 'S ( NOT THE CARGO CARRIER OF TODAY) P40 'S VERY COOL.
7/BATTLE OF MIDWAY . . HESTON ALL STAR CAST
8/ waldo peppers flying circus
/damm busters.
10/ firebirds ( hey the fling wing folks like movies too!)
well I think Ill get the popcorn maker going and watch a movie
merry xmas and carry lots of gas never panic.
Was watching a terrible movie once where a non pilot bad guy needed to get away, so he steals a Beaver. First he manages to start it, then does a perfect single float takeoff. Then he and his passenger are cruising along, not wearing headsets, but having a nice quiet converstation. It must have been one of those magic beavers that doesnt make any noise.
I see a movie quite a few years ago, it was about the RCAF at startup it had actors like Edward G. Robinson and a whole slew of others I wish I could remember all of them and also had Billy Bishop in it. It was filmed at Downsview and I would really enjoy seeing it again. If any of you can help me with this it would be really appreciated.
P.S. It had some excellent flying scenes in it as all of the actual pilots were Bush Pilots.
To those debating whether or not it's possible to hand prop a navajo: There was the very same debate about 8 months ago. Many thought it was impossible for a handful of very vaild sounding reasons. A bunch of bored guys, and one very ballsy or very stupid AME tried it out. It was sucessfully hand propped a few times in a row. Hopefully that puts the question to bed.
in hindsight i wish i had my camera to take a video of it. ah well.
Ah, the movie topic is up from starting almost 2 years ago. WOW.
I'd have to say that my favorite new one that came out was Flightplan. LOL. this movie suck. has anyone here ever saw a A474. I really like how a bomb goes off in the end of the movie and all it does is collapse the nose gear.
Ok I can't believe no one mentioned this cinimatic abortion, and I cannot recall the name, it was direct entry to TV (go figure) I caught it half way through and it was like a bad train wreck....so bad it flipped right back into good.
Basically a 3 man crew on a 777 (the side deat guy was played by the guy who played Q on star trek) have a elevator stuck in the up position so they keep on climbing. Above fl330 or whatever. SO they get an apache gunship ( who happens to be flying around at FL330 Fully armed over the continental US) to come and shoot holes in the elevators (but the captain asks him to miss the trim tabs as he may need those) so that gets the nose down a bit more, THEN they come up with the stunning idea of getting a air tanker to come over with a hose and pump water in to a avionics area right under the cockpit so the weight lowers the nose then when they want to land they'll drop the gear (and the water with it) the nose will rise and BAM they land....
So the tanker comes flying over, they open a hatch and grab this hose and fill the 'avionics bay' up with water, the nose goes down, all the passengers seem to die from lack of O2. THen they get below 10k ft and they all spring back to life THEn the captain lands and realizes he is in love with his F/O (played by some nice looking older babe) Happy ending ensues and I lost my lunch...Oh I almost forgot, the efis seemed to work fine after the 'avionics bay' was filled with water...
WORST
MOVIE
EVER
Another awefull one? the new Flight of the Pheonix....seriously 2 hours of my life I will never get back...
scuba_steve: You're trying to tell me that laser ring gyros wouldn't respond well to be submersed in water? I'm sure they would have reasearched that before filming the movie.
Older Returning Pilot:
I think the movie you descibe is called "Captain of the Clouds" starring James Cagney. It was filmed at Uplands, which was the military base outside of Ottawa, IIRC.
All of the military aircraft and personnel-save for a small group of professional actors-were the real thing.
Even the General Officer officiating at the graduation ceremony at the end of the movie( when Cagney dives on the parade) was the real guy.
I don't know if anyone has mentioned these (I'm not sifting through 3 damn pages to find out) but I like Bat 21 when Danny Glover is flying the C-337 (if I remember correctly) pulling 90 degrees angle of bank, firing rockets and shit with one hand all the while sipping his morning coffee in the other hand. Love it.
Then there's Trapped, which is worth seeing just for Charlize Theron alone..........................................lost my train of thought. Sorry, got thinking about Charlize, who for the purposes of this discussion we can refer to as one of the most beautiful women in the world. Anyways, buddy is flying an amphib 180 or 185 and has to make multiple life or death cell phone calls without the other person realizing he's in an airplane instead of where he's supposed to be. So, he cuts the engine for silence purposes. Of course when he does this, he does what we all would do and shoves the nose straight down and watches the altitude peel off the meter. Needless to say, he manages to restart and pull out of each successive 2000+ fpm dive without any problems. Not a bad flick though, worth seeing. Did I mention Charlize (one of the most beautiful women in the world) Theron is in it?
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FOD wrote:Okay, how come no one's mentioned Air America. Gotta love putting that old porter through its paces.
And breaking away from movies. An old disney cartoon is what got me into flying, any one remember Tailspin??? Or how about that old black and white air combat show the Black Sheep Squadron.
Tailspin was a funny cartoon. However I have a question to throw out there. What is a "tailspin?!" Everytime a plane crashes in a movie or an eyewitness appears on the news, there is always the quote "the airplane then entered a tailspin and crashed."
Of course on the news interviews always go by this script "It sounded like it was having engine trouble and there was a large bang and it entered a tailspin." WTF? Usually it's not engine related but that's always the first thing you hear. Not sure they even know what a rough running piston or turbine engine would sound like.
Scuba_Steve wrote:Basically a 3 man crew on a 777 (the side deat guy was played by the guy who played Q on star trek) have a elevator stuck in the up position so they keep on climbing. Above fl330 or whatever. SO they get an apache gunship ( who happens to be flying around at FL330 Fully armed over the continental US) to come and shoot holes in the elevators (but the captain asks him to miss the trim tabs as he may need those) so that gets the nose down a bit more, THEN they come up with the stunning idea of getting a air tanker to come over with a hose and pump water in to a avionics area right under the cockpit so the weight lowers the nose then when they want to land they'll drop the gear (and the water with it) the nose will rise and BAM they land....
So the tanker comes flying over, they open a hatch and grab this hose and fill the 'avionics bay' up with water, the nose goes down, all the passengers seem to die from lack of O2. THen they get below 10k ft and they all spring back to life THEn the captain lands and realizes he is in love with his F/O (played by some nice looking older babe) Happy ending ensues and I lost my lunch...Oh I almost forgot, the efis seemed to work fine after the 'avionics bay' was filled with water...
WOW! This sounds so brutal I wish I had seen it! I love cutting up movies and TV shows while I'm watching. Girlfriend does not agree. She won't watch CSI with me.
Of course, let's not forget, whenever they show a plane take-off, it's a 737, flying in and around thunderstorms, being rocked, it's a 707 and then it magically turns into an L-1011 for the landing!
Another one is with Arnie and Rae Dawn Chong (I forget the title of this one). The real star is the Grumman Goose. It had some great lines in it like "we have to get type 8 fuel because it's an amphibian airplane"
Ok. Sorry if someone else has mentioned these:
Pearl Harbour. "Get your speed up before you leave the dirt" - Good advice.
Temple of Doom. In the descent with the altimeter winding down - so is the pressure setting.
Any f$%^&*@! police chase on the runway - advance the phuking throttles!! On "CHiPS" Paunch puts his baton in the flight controls - I would have run over him...
I wont get intp Firefox, Blue Thunder or Airwolf.
The one Oldtimer was talking about wayyy back in the thread was "Passenger 57" it was actually an L1011 and suprise suprise they kept the same aircraft throughout the entire movie.
I love it when The Hijacker goes into the cockpit
Hijacker- Who is in Charge?
Captain- I am
Hijacker shoots the captain in the head killing him instantly
Hijacker- Once again, who is in charge?
F/O- You are.
Classic conversation. At least the F/O in the movie was able to land the aircraft by himself with the F/Es help without having to contact ATC to get a pilot to talk him through it. Man I hate when they make it out like this is the F/Os first hr ever flying. Go Wesley Snipes.
