Favorite Aircraft Movies?

[Texas Star]

To avoid intruding into the thread, "You Like Airplanes?", I started this one.

Anyone got favorite aircraft-centered movies?

My favorites include, "Battle of Britain", ""633 Squadron", "Flat Top", and ""Midway." Add, "The Bridges at Toko-Ri".

[Comrad]

Top Gun, must have surround sound turned up loud.

[CW Spook]

The High and the Mighty, One Six Right

[Damn Yankee]

12 O'clock High

[cougar14]

The Right Stuff, Dam Busters.

[Double-O-Dave]

Flight of the Phoenix

I was seriously bummed out when I found you can't really ditch a plane in the desert like you can on water.

The Right Stuff

The scene where the rescue crew is searching for Chuck Yeager after he bails out of the F-104 and one of the rescuers asks: "Sir, is that a man?" and the reply: "You're damn right it is!" still gives me goose bumps!

The Great Waldo Pepper

The Blue Max

[QuickDrawMcGraw]

~ Wings ~ (1927 version)
30 seconds over Tokyo*

~ Joe

[Marshwheeling]

Airplane, the Citizen Kane of airplane movies.

[JcMack]

Flight of the Intruder

[jimmyj]

Air Force (1943)
Flying Tigers
Aerial Gunner

[calmex]

Well, The Blue Max, of course, is a solid favorite.

[HAWKEYE10]

Originally Posted by Texas Star

To avoid intruding into the thread, "You Like Airplanes?", I started this one.

Anyone got favorite aircraft-centered movies?

My favorites include, "Battle of Britain", ""633 Squadron", "Flat Top", and ""Midway." Add, "The Bridges at Toko-Ri".

Yeah! I like all those. I guess Midway is my favorite. Don

[Straightshooter2]

The High and the Mighty (watched it New Years Eve), No Highway In the Sky, Flying Tigers, Bridges at Toko-Ri, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, Top Gun (for the flying) and way too many more to name.

CW

[Gunslinger808]

Memphis Belle
and
Bridges at Toko Ri

[Texas Star]

The Bridges At Toko-Ri Theatrical Movie Trailer (1953) - YouTube

Trailer to, "The Bridges at Toko-Ri".

I hope this is okay to post. I'm never clear on just which videos are pemitted.

[brucev]

Flight of the Phoenix. One of my favorite movies.

12 O'Clock High ... This is a tremendous movie. Excellent. Extremely well done. Very well worth watching.

[ChuckS1]

Strategic Air Command with Jimmy Stewart, and Flying Tigers

[ACP230]

I was much impressed with "The Spirit Of St. Louis" when I saw it as a kid.

[Pop's2]

and I would include "Island in the sky" 1953

[jeffsmith]

Test Pilot (1938)

Not many places to see that many Early Model B-17's

Plus Everything Already Mentioned

[Mickey D]

Originally Posted by ChuckS1

Strategic Air Command with Jimmy Stewart, and Flying Tigers

Loved watching that movie with my father, who was a crew chief on the B47 in the mid '50s.

Also Twelve O'clock High.

[dsbock]

Originally Posted by Mickey D

Loved watching that movie with my father, who was a crew chief on the B47 in the mid '50s.

Same here. Except my father refueled B47s. He was assigned to the 4060th Air Refueling Wing, 71st AR squadron at Dow AFB in Maine. He also spent a few months at Thule in Greenland.

Still one of my all time favorite airplane movies.

David

[1911a2bphil]

Top Gun and Dr. Strangelove. I know its not about airplanes, but the scenes with the B-52 are awesome. Also Airplane, its hilarious

[s1mp13m4n]

Airplane and Hot Shots.

[Alnamvet68]

Maybe not a full length movie, but it was a hugely popular TV program in the late 50's , Whirlybirds, which inspired me to pursue a career as a helicopter pilot.

[Marshwheeling]

Out of Africa

[RWJ]

Failsafe, based on Burdick's book

[M1Garandy]

Strategic Air Command
The Bridges at Toko-Ri
The Great Waldo Pepper (so glad this finally made it to DVD).

[XAVMECH]

STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND
FLIGHT OF THE INTRUDER
BATTLE OF BRITAIN
PIECE OF CAKE (BBC Mini-series)
16 RIGHT (and 16 LEFT,too), very inspirational support of GEN AV

EXAVMECH

[QuickDrawMcGraw]

Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965)

~ Joe

[retarmyaviator]

Spitfire (1942)

One of Our Aircraft is Missing (1942)

[1HAWKEYE]

The spirit of St. louis
Stratigic air command
Memphis Belle both 1944 and the new version.
Battle of Britian
Zepplin
First of the few(also known as Spitfire)
FYI Jimmy Stewart retired from the Air Force as a Brigader General and was a pilot.

[V1 Rotate]

I believe I have seen every single one of the movies and tv shows listed; I liked all of them, and most are actually pretty good even if the flying part is not believable in some of them. But I suspect the vast majority of professional pilots would tell you that their favorite flying movie is "Airplane", one of the greatest and goofiest comedies ever made. If you are not familiar with it, think "Blazing Saddles" with wings. Bill S

[Kanewpadle]

The Flying Leathernecks
Memphis Belle
Airplane!
The Right Stuff

[sheepdawg]

Memphis Belle

Have to being from Memphis

[10mmauto]

Airport. Here's to you, Dean.

[coach57]

Originally Posted by V1 Rotate

I believe I have seen every single one of the movies and tv shows listed; I liked all of them, and most are actually pretty good even if the flying part is not believable in some of them. But I suspect the vast majority of professional pilots would tell you that their favorite flying movie is "Airplane", one of the greatest and goofiest comedies ever made. If you are not familiar with it, think "Blazing Saddles" with wings. Bill S

Agreed. If you like Airplane I recommend Zero Hour, the 1957 movie that Airplane was a remake of. It wasn't intended to be a comedy but after watching Airplane it's truly funny.

[aphelion]

The Hunters with Mitchum and Egan is worth watching for the F86 footage in between the soap opera stuff.

[Kinman]

The Blue Max for sure...and for eye candy Ursula Undress.

[walnutred]

I like most of those mentioned but one of my favorites is Sole Survivor from 1970.

[RobertJ.]

1. Catch-22
2. Dr. Strangelove
3. Airplane

[Welder1]

Memphis Belle for sure

[ordy]

Top Gun but only because I worked on A-4 Skyhawks when in the navy and love to watch them fly. The rest of the movie is kind of lame. Other than that, 12 o'clock high and dam busters.

[V1 Rotate]

Originally Posted by coach57

Agreed. If you like Airplane I recommend Zero Hour, the 1957 movie that Airplane was a remake of. It wasn't intended to be a comedy but after watching Airplane it's truly funny.

Coach is right. This is a amazingly funny movie when seen after "Airplane", and its a pretty good 50's type potboiler when seen before. Bill S

[BearBio]

"Five came back"=early film about survivors of a crash in the jungle. There were several re-makes of the same story.

"Fate is the Hunter"

"Island in the Sky"

Oh, I forgot. There is a training film for any Federal employee who has to fly in small planes (I think the class is Basic Aircrew Safety-the M-3 or B-3 Module). It is hilarious and the intro is done by Clint Eastwood.

[TexasG]

Memphis Belle - I was stationed at RAF Little Rissington, where they filmed the guys playing football scenes. Some of the young guys in my squadron were volunteered to be on the field playing as extras. The producers had a sneak preview for us at the "Stratford Upon Avon" theater prior to it's release.

[walnutred]

How many have seen the 1944 Memphis Belle movie? I have Robert Morgans, who was the pilot, autobiography and in it he talked about making the movie. One thing that struck me was that you don’t think about the sound, including dialog, being dubbed in latter when the crew was Stateside. He said the dubbing was very hard because not only did they relive the mission but the camera picked up things they were too busy to notice themselves. Specifically when they saw planes they knew go down on film. Obviously they knew the plane didn’t come back from the mission but to watch a friends plane go to pieces on the screen was very hard.

[PatAz]

For me I liked X 15, kind of soapy but I like the rocket planes.

[nipster]

Airplane...

[GKC]

Originally Posted by V1 Rotate

If you are not familiar with it, think "Blazing Saddles" with wings. Bill S

But no farting...the campfire scene in Blazing Saddles was hilarious!