What's your favorite Aviation Movie?

[Loafing Smurf]

The Final Countdown

Great movie. If there is any movie that mixes avation and science fiction, it would probably be "The Final Countdown".

I would like to see some other a movie where fighter pilots fight aliens, I know Independence Day did that but there is just something...

My list
-memphis belle
-The Right Stuff
-The Man Without a Face (title probably not accurate, It about a boy that wants to become a fighter pilot in the 60)
-October Sky
-Air Force One (ok, it had a good plot)

there probably others that I'm forgeting.

[Professor Brensec]

Great movie. If there is any movie that mixes avation and science fiction, it would probably be "The Final Countdown".

I would like to see some other a movie where fighter pilots fight aliens, I know Independence Day did that but there is just something...

My list
-memphis belle
-The Right Stuff
-The Man Without a Face (title probably not accurate, It about a boy that wants to become a fighter pilot in the 60)
-October Sky
-Air Force One (ok, it had a good plot)

there probably others that I'm forgeting.

I vaguely recall a movie I only saw once, back in the early '70's. It was made in the late '50's or early '60's.
All I remember about it is a test pilot is flying a new jet and is trying to break the sound barrier or something and his plane (and him) are taken ahead in time. He lands at the airfield he took off from and the hangers are all delapidated and the runways are overgrown with grass.
That's all I recall. Is it enough for someone to recognise it.
Oh yeah, when the jet was going ahead in time, there were "ghost" images coming off it as it went.

That's it, Rifle. the only Sci-fi one I remember at the moment.  ;D

Let's not forget the one with the Nimitz going back to Pearl Harbour. There were F14's splashing A6M2's in that one. That's good Sci-fi. What was it called?............tip of my tongue.

[Loafing Smurf]

The Final Countdown is about the Nimitz going back to Pearl Harbour.

Take a look here
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0080736

Since we are talking about airplanes going through time, the TV movie "The Langoliers" was a good one.

Look here
http://www.firsttvdrama.com/show2/history/lango.php3

[Professor Brensec]

The Final Countdown is about the Nimitz going back to Pearl Harbour.

Take a look here
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0080736

Since we are talking about airplanes going through time, the TV movie "The Langoliers" was a good one.

Look here
http://www.firsttvdrama.com/show2/history/lango.php3

That's what got me confused. The Final Countdown is the movie I meant, but I was picturing Sci-fi as "fighting aliens" as mentioned. Sorry, confusion and stupidity on my part.

The Langoliers was a good movie. I've only seen it once, about 5 years ago. Was it time travel though? I thought they were in some kind of parallel uni or an alternate reality or something.  ;D

[Hagar]

I'm surprised to find that there was such a lack of Hurricanes, considering the number produced and available at wars end. Also, I imagine they would be a much cheaper proposition to restore, given the simpler construction etc.

I think this can be explained by the fact that the Spitfire remained in sevice well after 1945. Earlier marks were also in demand by other nations. Check out the histories of just two of the Mark IXs on the current display circuit.
MH434. Ray Hanna's personal aircraft & probably the most famous Spitfire now flying. http://www.ukwarbirds.fsnet.co.uk/profiles%20MH434.htm
ML407. Carolyn Grace's 2-seat version. http://www.ukwarbirds.fsnet.co.uk/operators%20%20grace.htm My dream is to have a flight in it some day.
Also a list of all airworthy warbirds currently in the UK.
http://www.ukwarbirds.fsnet.co.uk/warbird_directory.htm

1,000s of unwanted surplus aircraft would have been broken up for scrap with no hesitation at the end of WWII. Some naval types were simply pushed over the side of their carriers. Nobody foresaw the demand for these types over 50 years later. I know of many that were purchased for the crates they came in rather than the aircraft.

P.S. I once heard that at the end of the war a complete "crated" Spitfire" could be bought in England (from the RAF or whatever Dept. involved) for 1,000 pounds. Is there any truth to this.  ;D

I would have thought it would have been far less. I know you could purchase an ex-RAF Tiger Moth in 1946 for around

[phil509]

[quote]

I vaguely recall a movie I only saw once, back in the early '70's. It was made in the late '50's or early '60's.
All I remember about it is a test pilot is flying a new jet and is trying to break the sound barrier or something and his plane (and him) are taken ahead in time. He lands at the airfield he took off from and the hangers are all delapidated and the runways are overgrown with grass.
That's all I recall. Is it enough for someone to recognise it.
Oh yeah, when the jet was going ahead in time, there were "ghost" images coming off it as it went.

That's it, Rifle. the only Sci-fi one I remember at the moment.

[denishc]

Yo brensec and phil509,
 I belive your both thinking of an original "Outer Limits" episode in which a X-15 test pilot and his wife, who was coming out to see him land, get cought in a time "vortex".  Time for them remains constant while for all others, in "real" time, it has slowed down.  The catch is that "real" time is slowly approacing the "vortex".  If the pilot and his wife are not in the proper locations when the two meet they will remain trapped in the "vortex", between "times".

[Professor Brensec]

I think you may be right, I recall the movie/show being black & white and also a bit "B' grade looking.
This tends to support the "Outer limits" theory (the old version of the early '60's)

Was it the "Ghosts" coming of the plane that I mentioned that gave it away, because that's the clearest, most 'standout' feature of the show.

Thanks anyway, I don't have to worry about finding out what it was now.

[Loafing Smurf]

The Old Outer Limits, that

[Cherokee_6]

There is a documentary that will be gaurenteed to make even the biggest redneck cry like a little school boy.

But the biggest picker is that I cannot remember what it is called!!

It is about a rich treasure hunter that goes into Iceland because a B52 bomber crash landed there during WW2. The plane is in relatively good condition and so that rebuild it with the intent to fly it out!

It is an amazing story and has an unbelievable ending. I will do some more searching on the internet for the title but if anyone knows what I am talking about PLEASE let me know!!!!!!!!

Thanks

[Hagar]

I think this is the one you mean Cherokee.

[Cherokee_6]

[quote]I think this is the one you mean Cherokee.

[Jake Derrick]

Airplane

or

Hotshots

Both very funny

[Professor Brensec]

Just quickly, on the subject of the Sci-Fi shows.

I remember a 'Twiligyt Zone" episode where a bloke somehow gets sent ahead in time (just a few minutes or an hour) and he comes across all these people dressed in blue overalls, whose job it is to "build" and "paint" the world each and every minute, so that when the minute changes to the next, everything is ready and in place.

The bloke comes across an alley way that has no matter or substance in it and he asks what's the deal there? He's told that no-one is "scheduled to be in or go into that alley during the minute that they are building for, so there's no need to have it there.

The Head Builder asks him if he has ever put something down somewhere and gone to grab it shortly after and it hasn't been there. he says he has. The Builder tells him that's a result of them "stuffing up" and forgetting to put something in place.

Silly, but a very entertaining episode........lol  ;D

[tralfaz]

    To my mind, the best single aviation film is the original silent WINGS (real WWI aircraft flown by real WWI pilots having real WWI in-flight fires and real WWI dying-in-horrific-accidents) and TWELVE O"CLOCK HIGH (real B17s flying from real WWII aerodromes).  No, the TWO best aviation films are WINGS, TWELVE O'CLOCK HIGH, and FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX.  I'll start over.
    The THREE best aviation films are WINGS, TWELVE O"CLOCK HIGH, FLIGHT OF THE PHEONIX, and BATTLE OF BRITAIN.
    All right, the FOUR best are those above and STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND.  Or anything with James Stewart.
    My vote for worst aviation disaster movie of all time?  "PEARL HARBOR, the dramatic story of how the evil Imperial Empire launched a dastardly sneak attack on an American love triangle."  Or its alternate trailer, "An hour and a half of lovestruck nimrods broken up by 15 minutes of spectacular cinematography treated as an afterthought."  Bloody Putzes!
    As to FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX, Paul Mantz was the man killed flying the "1/3 of a Skytruck"--which his firm, TALLMANTZ Aviation in Hollywood, built from an actual Fairchild C-82 aircraft.  He and his partner Frank Tallman had the biggest 'air force' in the country at one time next to the USAF, comprised of surplus aircraft bought after WWII.  You wanted an airplane flown through a billboard or a barn?  Crashed into a fuel tanker?  You called Mantz and Tallman.  Dag blag neat guys.  No computer magic, either.  The final flight scene in FOTP where the 'airplane' goes over the ridgetop?  That's where the actual pilot was killed.  Makes you think.