Best Aviation Movie of all time

[6'0 AGL]

With the Movie of all movies Top Gun coming upon 20 yr aniversary what is the best aviation movie of all time?

 

[SMOE]

Anything but the Iron Eagle series of farces...

 

[uba757]

AIRPLANE 1

 

[ThisistheDream]

Fandango was good. I liked the custom made 172

 

[~~~^~~~]

Doublecrossed - an HBO movie, available from the local video store.

 

[Weasel Keeper]

The Right Stuff, Tuskeegee Airmen, Air America, Dr Strangelove off the top of my head...along with those already mentioned.

 

[uba757]

MEMPHIS BELL

 

[Huck]

"The High and the Mighty," also the greatest airline book.

I've been in CRM classes where they show the scene of the F/O (John Wayne) biich-slapping the Captain (Robert Stack), shouting, "Get ahold of yourself!!!"

First runner up is "The Right Stuff." Saw it twice in two nights when it came out in 1984. All 3.5 hours of it.

Second runner up: "Airport." Also a dam' good book. It's got Dean Martin as a 707 Captain, shagging Jacqueline Bisset the stewardess. George Kennedy as "Patroni," the role model to all airline mechanics.

"Patroni! The book said we couldn't get her to do that!"

"That's what I like about the seven oh seven. She can do everything but read...."

 

[CL60]

The Great Waldo Pepper, (1975). The Right Stuff, (1983). Two favorites...

 

[Mookie]

Dodgeball. The scene with Vince Vaugh and Lance Armstrong at the "Dirty Sanchez" bar at the airport, having a beer sitting next to the AmWest pilot drinking a martini. funniest scene in a while next to the Man Show's "are you going to Phoenix? Me too!".

 

[TheBigH]

TOP GUN

Can never be topped ....

Except maybe if they make "TOP GUN, the return of the Goose... "

 

[FlyBarneyJets]

Flight of the Phoenix, The Battle of Britain, The Flying Leathernecks, Patton.

Okay...Patton wasn't a flying movie. It did, however, have one of my favorite George C. Scott moments in it.

"Romel, you magnificint BARSTAD, I read YOUR BOOK!!"

 

[Rook]

"AFTERBURN"

HBO movie about the early electrical problems plaguing the F-16. Good movie. Not too cheesy.

Rook

 

[freeflyer14]

Midway

Great movie

 

[flyer172r]

I still maintain that Top Gun is not a flying movie, it's a romance movie with flying scenes inserted to keep guys interested. Flight of the Intruder can kick Top Gun's butt any day of the week.

Overall best flying movies (in no particular order):
Flight of the Intruder
Memphis Bell
Tuskegee Airmen
Space Cowboys
Airplane

 

[snowman]

The right stuff

tuskegee airmen

SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT

adios
snowman

 

[OrphicSeth]

Dudes:

Hell's Angels

Where else do you see dozens and dozens of WWI aircraft and their pilots actually dogfighting. Pilots died making that movie, it's the real deal. (Well, except for the Zeppelin scene... hahaha... but that "air-car" stuff was actually true)

And for laughs, but again with awesome vintage footage:

Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines

It took BALLS to fly those airplanes, you ever see a replica Bleriot or Antoinette in person? An ultralight looks as sturdy as a 737 compared to these things.

Flying is sterile now compared to 1910-1920.

 

[Vector4fun]

Dudes:


Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines

It took BALLS to fly those airplanes, you ever see a replica Bleriot or Antoinette in person? An ultralight looks as sturdy as a 737 compared to these things.

Flying is sterile now compared to 1910-1920.

Haha, I watch that movie every time I see it on the channel guide. Just for the reason you stated. Took some 'nads to fly some of those replicas, even though the plot and rest of the movie is pretty cheesy.

I liked Memphis Belle too.

Nobody mentioned the "flying" scenes in 1941. I guess some of the P-40 air to air was real, but it was funny.

 

[414Flyer]

I still maintain that Top Gun is not a flying movie, it's a romance movie with flying scenes inserted to keep guys interested. Flight of the Intruder can kick Top Gun's butt any day of the week.

The romance crap was actually put it towards the end, because women did not think there was enough romance in the early tests of the movie

How many movies get screwed up, just because women cant watch something unless it has romance crap it it.

And then that was taken to an order of magnitude further with that 3 hours of crap called Pearl Harbor.

 

[skyslug]

"Always"...gotta love the opening scene!

 

[mach tuck]

BEHIND ENEMY LINES. The beginning is great when they're trying to out maneuver the SAMs.

mach

 

[The_Russian]

Flight Of The Intruder!!!!

best aviation movie by far. Stephen Coonts is the most accurate aviation writer in the world.

GRAFTON!!!!! Get in here!

Danny Glover was my favorite in that one.

 

[GogglesPisano]

AIRPORT.

Vern Demerest and George Patroni -- what a team!

 

[FurloughedAgain]

"Fate is the Hunter" the film adaptation of the Ernest Gann novel.

Best scene: After the first engine fails the flight attendant rushes to the cockpit (of the converted DC6 with rocket engines on the horizontal stab) and says, "Captain! What happened?" He responds, "I spilled my coffee!"

 

[dbrownie]

"The Dam Busters"
WW2 flick about Lancasters skipping bombs
accross lakes into German dams to flood towns.

True story!!!

Dave B

 

[mmase7]

Ask any former A-6 driver what they thought of "Flight of the Intruder"...All you'll get are sneers! The movie did not do the book justice.

 

[Typhoon1244]

Danny Glover was my favorite in that one.

Great line: "...I'll have you keel-hauled, and that's serious on an aircraft carrier."

 

[skidbuggy]

'The Blue Max' was a good movie.

 

[T-prop]

Flight of The Intruder was the best, granted the book was better.

"Hey Doc, when I say eject, eject, eject!! If you say huh? you'll be talkin' to yourself."

Skyraiders KickA@@!!

The Battle of Britain scenes from Pearl Harbor were awsome. The movie as a whole sucked, but the flying scenes overall were decent.

Miniseries on the book "Piece of Cake" by Masterpiece Theatre was rather entertaining.

Oh, and or course "1941" with John Belushi.

 

[blzr]

I would have to say Empire of the Sun.

right behind that would be 12 o'clock High.