Looking for a good list to work through...

I liked Snow Walker, just because I used to get deafened by JIN taking off at o'dark thirty in Howey Bay, when I'd been out medevacing all night.

Seeing it in a cold nunavut lake with buddy beating it with a 2X4 seemed like good payback at the time.

Empire of the Rising Sun is one of my all-time favourite "aviation" movies. Not that it is a movie specifically about an airplane(s), rather airplanes are a core part of the story.

However, the best part of that, or almost any (aviation) movie by far, is when the allied forces come in for rescue and the star of the show, a young boy, is standing on a platform at the airfield shouting "P-51 Mustang, Cadillac of the sky!" at the top of his lungs as they roar overhead... It is worth watching the movie over and over for that one incredible scene - assuming of course you have a good imagination and could picture yourself on that airfield and in that kind of moment - throw in a love for airplanes, and well, its a Kleenex moment.

One Six Right

more a documentary than a movie, but wow is it good

" Below " by Mirimax...a naval airplane movie......

It's my favorite because I did all the flying in it and I'm first on the credits in the movie..

The High And The Mighty and The Island In The Sky. Both movies were filmed in the early 1950's and starred John Wayne, based on stories by Ernest K. Gann. A couple of years ago they both became available on DVD. Great movies.

High And The Mighty is the better of the two, in my opinion. It's the story of a DC-4 that sheds a propeller on a flight from HNL to SFO. Excellent movie. There is a wonderful scene of a 1950's version of CRM between John Wayne and Robert Stack, who plays the Captain.

The Island In The Sky is a true story about an event from Gann's (partial) autobiography, Fate Is The Hunter, where O'Connor runs into ice in a C-87 on a medevac between Goose and Presq'Ile. They are unable to maintain flight in the ice, and he turns back toward the northwest to avoid the mountains north of the the Gulf of St. Lawrence. I know that area kinda well, so what put me off a bit about the movie is, it was filmed in the Sierra Madre mountains of California, which are twice as high as the hills around here.

Under no circumstances, ever, see the movie Fate Is The Hunter, starring Rod Taylor. It is so terrible, Gann had his name removed from any association with it.

Zero Hour was a pretty good movie. Don't eat the chicken.

Cobra64 wrote:One Six Right

+1

I can't resist Strategic Air Command with James Stewart, who was B-36 rated for real

Captains of the Clouds - Cagney corny but lots of flying from bush to battle, also shows CFB Trenton and Ottawa / Uplands as they were at the time.

- The Blue Max
- The Great Waldo Pepper
- the original Flight of the Phoenix
- The Spirit of St. Louis
- The Right Stuff
- The Great Santini
- Test Pilot
- A Guy Named Joe
- Wings in the Dark
- Only Angels Have Wings
- Strategic Air Command
- The Flying Leathernecks
- The Sound Barrier
- Island in the Sky
- The High and the Mighty
- Wing and a Prayer
- The Crowded Sky
- Jet Pilot
- The Bridges at Toko-Ri
- High Flight (British, RAF '50s)
- Three Guys Named Mike

Some good ones there!

Also add:
Pancho Barnes
Firefox
Von Richthofen & Brown
Memphis Belle
Always

How about Dam Busters, great movie, happen to have it on the computer for my next time stuck waiting for a plane

Air America!

The Aviator (1985) - starring Christopher Reeve as a mail carrying flyer. The girl - Rosanne Arquette. A bit weak on the plot, but great scenery, and Reeve was very strong in this post-Superman role.

Six Days Seven Nights (1998) - Harrison Ford as an island hopping charter pilot. The girl - Anne Heche. Subject plane is a Beaver and it is rumoured that he flew this one in the movie

Both are light romance and good for date night too.

Just going to add some that haven't been said.

633 Squadron. Great movie if you like the DH Mosquito.

Tuskeegee Airmen. About the first black USAAF pilots training in Alabama.


The original Memphis Belle was great but had quite a propaganda side to it. "This........is an air front!" LOL!

How about Dam Busters, great movie, happen to have it on the computer for my next time stuck waiting for a plane

Did that version have a dog in it?

633 Squadron. Great movie if you like the DH Mosquito.

Crap, did you have to mention that? Now I'm gonna have the theme song stuck in my head all day. I like the song, but flying at multiple thousand feet, it isn't a good for mental background music. Still, better than having "Bob The Builder" stuck in my head... ouch, why did I have to say that, now I'll have that stuck in my brain!

just curious wrote:

633 Squadron. Great movie if you like the DH Mosquito.

Crap, did you have to mention that? Now I'm gonna have the theme song stuck in my head all day. I like the song, but flying at multiple thousand feet, it isn't a good for mental background music. Still, better than having "Bob The Builder" stuck in my head... ouch, why did I have to say that, now I'll have that stuck in my brain!

I was quite happy having the 633 Squadron theme song stuck in my head even though I'm stuck in the shop working on a basket case Maule! Dun du du du du du duuuuh duuuuh (dun dun d d dunana dunana)

But now I have Bob the Builder stuck in my head!

Oh well, at least it's not Dora or Barney or something...whoops!

The final countdown http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080736/

Awesome footage of tomcats...

I really liked Tora! Tora! Tora!

Air America!

+1

I know nobody will admit it, but you all have a copy of Topgun hidden in there next to your playboys.

Vote for worst aviation movies
Conair
DIe Hard 2

Cat Driver wrote:" Below " by Mirimax...a naval airplane movie......

It's my favorite because I did all the flying in it and I'm first on the credits in the movie..

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1260511/ Your rating dropped 36% in the last week. I guess you wont be getting invited to party with Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan.

just curious wrote:I liked Snow Walker, just because I used to get deafened by JIN taking off at o'dark thirty in Howey Bay, when I'd been out medevacing all night.

Seeing it in a cold nunavut lake with buddy beating it with a 2X4 seemed like good payback at the time.

+1 absolutely loved this flick!

I enjoyed both Aviators, Flyboys was neat allthought the wife didnt appreciate it when I said "thats why I keep a revolver in the glovebox of UBC", Tuskegee Airma, Flight of the Pheonix, Airplane.

Why hasnt anyone said Top Gun?

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1260511/ Your rating dropped 36% in the last week. I guess you wont be getting invited to party with Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan.

Ahhh well niss, like Hedley said it is better to be a has been than a never was.

Twelve O'Clock High is one of my favourites.
A good movie that few people have heard of is A Guy Named Joe (1944),
the movie Always is a remake of it.
Mash

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