aviation movies...

[Whataburger]

Topgun.

 

[Wesb737fo]

ooh...forgot about that one. Slider.....you stink!

 

[KingDriver]

What about: "Pushing Tin", "Airplane", or "The Great Waldo Pepper"?

 

[Jeff Helgeson]

Good first date flick!

"Always"

Steven Spielberg's fire fighting movie. Awesome.

John Goodman, Richard Dryfus, and that hot Holly Hunter.

Flying, romance, etc.

I like the way Holly Hunter goes "around the horn" and cranks up the B25 in a hurry!

 

[Jeff Helgeson]

The Blue Max rocks

I can't believe no one has mentioned "Castaway". And one of the best is "The Blue Max".

George P.

 

[Jeff Helgeson]

30 second over Tokyo

The Doolittle Raiders

 

[RightBettor]

"The Pilot" (c. 1979) with Cliff Robertson. Robertson is a rated pilot in real life, and heard a rumor that he got typed (or at least trained) on the DC-8 so that he would actually taxi, takeoff, fly, etc. during filming of the cockpit sequences. A good movie about an airline captain battling the demons of alcoholism. Some good flying scenes and good writing with CRM issues, a fuel emergency going into SFO, etc. Check it out.

 

[RightBettor]

Another good one is "The Aviator" (c. 1985) with Christopher Reeve (not the recent one with fancy boy DiCaprio). Anyway, Reeve plays an airmail pilot in the 1920s. The airmail service started toying with the idea of taking passengers along (and it all went downhill from there!!!) Rosanna Arquette plays a poor little rich girl who is the passenger... yada yada yada. There's a great scene where Reeve is having breakfast (a jelly doughnut reserved for him... you'll see) and coffee. Arquette, the annoying passenger, is asking him lots of questions while he is trying to have a quiet moment eating. Sound familiar? The dialouge is hilarious, and it will remind you of those moments when someone interrupts your meal at the airport or your sleep during a commute in order to aks stuff like, "So, what's your route?" or "I have friend who used to fly747s for Pan Am, maybe you know him?"

Again, The Aviator (1985). Good flick.

 

[Cardinal]

Another vote for The High and The Mighty, as well as Dr. Strangelove (Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb)

I'll have to find The Pilot

 

[Jeff Helgeson]

I remember that one...

"The Pilot" with Cliff Robertson. Robertson is a rated pilot in real life, and heard a rumor that he got typed (or at least trained) on the DC-8 so that he would actually taxi, takeoff, fly, etc. during filming of the cockpit sequences. A good movie about an airline captain battling the demons of alcoholism. Some good flying scenes and good writing with CRM issues, a fuel emergency going into SFO, etc. Check it out.

Doesn't it end with an evacutaion where he returns for the flask in his coat?

Then shows him crop dusting in the end?

 

[RightBettor]

Doesn't it end with an evacutaion where he returns for the flask in his coat?

Then shows him crop dusting in the end?

Yeah, he takes early retirement (pensions were guaranteed... hmmmmm) and returns to flying for fun. When he resigns, he says something like his heart wasn't in it anymore... and this was back in the day before sexual harrasment suits and the TSA!!

 

[FutureTEDpilot]

Cloud Dancer (david Carridine)

1980 release...

CLOUD DANCER. Awesome flying with Pitts Specials in aerobatic competition, drug running etc. I have one copy on DVD and VHS. Great flying flick. David Carradine the "Kong Fu" guy is in it.

Also:

THE WAR LOVER
BRIDGES OVER TOKO RI
THE HUNTERS
BAA BAA Blacksheep season 1 on DVD (I love the Corsair)

 

[FutureTEDpilot]

Yeah, he takes early retirement (pensions were guaranteed... hmmmmm) and returns to flying for fun. When he resigns, he says something like his heart wasn't in it anymore... and this was back in the day before sexual harrasment suits and the TSA!!

THAT IS A GREAT MOVIE!

Esp. when he takes his daughter up in the Pitts S-2A, that was filmed out in Homestead right at Curtis Pitts's place. And the reference to "Skeeter" is actually a National pilot. I was told a lot of National guys flew the DC-8 for the film.

I am trying to find a copy on DVD, my VHS one is getting old.

 

[SWA/FO]

Ha, National didn't fly DC-8s....only B757s, gotcha!!!:beer:





Only kidding

 

[FutureTEDpilot]

Ha, National didn't fly DC-8s....only B757s, gotcha!!!:beer:





Only kidding

I HOPE YOU ARE "ONLY KIDDING" Or you will be buying ME a LOT of beer!

(For those of you confused, w are talking about the OLD NATIONAL based in MIA that was bought by Pan-Am)

 

[Keydet]

Iron Eagle: ridiculous plot and overall crappy movie; kickin' soundtrack.

 

[lowlycfi]

Tuskegee Airmen, The Right Stuff, Flight of the Intruder

 

[Morning Wood]

"The Battle of Britain". I found it in the discount bin at Walmart for $5.88.

 

[sandman2122]

The Battle of Britain is one of my favorites - you don't see that many Hurricanes and Spitfires flying anymore.

Wasn't there a mini-series on PBS years ago about an American who flew with the RAF - even had a scene of a Spitfire flying under a bridge......??

 

[airbrush]

sandman,

You're referring to "Piece of Cake", a British miniseries from the late '80s. Oustanding flick; lots of great flying sequences (all Spitfires, no Hurricanes) and a lot more character development than most aviation films. I have the 6-tape VHS set (it's about 12 hours long) that I ordered from Armchair Aviator or some other such place. I break it out once ina while when I can wrestle the TV away from the kids. Highly recommended.

I've got a long list of others that I'll have to sit down and figure out. Dittos on the Blue Max, Bridges at Toko Ri.

By the way, nice avatar. I may have to go home and wake up the wife now.....