Who is your favorite fictitious pilot or crewmember

Airlift48 · **Joined:** Sat Oct 29, 2005 7:01 pm **Posts:** 746

SaxMan wrote:

I was probably one of three people who actually watched "Tales of the Gold Monkey".

Ok, who was the other guy? I watched that and loved it! It was like Indiana Jones with an airplane..

Strangely enough, Disney used the Baloo bear character from "the Jungle Book" and turned him into a Jake Cutter type flying a cartoon Goose in "Talespin".....

However, as far as my favorites?

Capt. Oveur, Roger Murdock, and of course, Ted Striker, from a certain ill-fated flight 209er from Chicago.
Jimmy Stewart's Character in Flight of the Phoenix
Andy Devine in Island in the Sky!

Canso42 · **Posted:** Fri Feb 19, 2010 9:21 pm

Maj. Conn from Strangelove. No question. Lots of others after but he's the one.

Jerry O'Neill · **Posted:** Fri Feb 19, 2010 9:40 pm

Canso42 wrote:

Maj. Conn from Strangelove. No question. Lots of others after but he's the one.

I do love Slim Pickens, especially when he reads the contents of the survival kit!
BTW, not to nit pick, but his character is actually Major 'King' Kong. Easy mistake if you don't see it spelled out and only hear it in the film.
Jerry

mustangdriver · **Posted:** Sat Feb 20, 2010 8:54 am

Airlift48 wrote:

SaxMan wrote:

I was probably one of three people who actually watched "Tales of the Gold Monkey".

Ok, who was the other guy? I watched that and loved it! It was like Indiana Jones with an airplane..

Strangely enough, Disney used the Baloo bear character from "the Jungle Book" and turned him into a Jake Cutter type flying a cartoon Goose in "Talespin".....

However, as far as my favorites?

Capt. Oveur, Roger Murdock, and of course, Ted Striker, from a certain ill-fated flight 209er from Chicago.
Jimmy Stewart's Character in Flight of the Phoenix
Andy Devine in Island in the Sky!

I used to watch Tailspin as a kid. He flew a C-119 on floats! It was called the "Sea Duck"

oscardeuce · **Joined:** Wed Jul 27, 2005 3:34 am **Posts:** 1021

Hop Harrigan, America's Ace of the Airwaves

Airlift48 · **Joined:** Sat Oct 29, 2005 7:01 pm **Posts:** 746

I could have sworn it was a cartoon Goose....

Looks more like a C-82 than a 119....but still its a cartoon...

This is what I remember seeing:

cg51 · **Posted:** Sat Feb 20, 2010 9:57 pm

Snoopy
''Tommy'' Harachi Black Sheep Show
"Goose" Top Gun

Airlift48 · **Joined:** Sat Oct 29, 2005 7:01 pm **Posts:** 746

I forgot two of my faves....

drat, drat and double drat!

baldrick · **Posted:** Mon Feb 22, 2010 1:28 am

Rik Mayall as Captain Flashard in Blackadder goes forth.

airzoodocent · **Posted:** Mon Feb 22, 2010 1:47 pm

Tony "Saint" Christopher, RED PHOENIX
Jake Grafton, FLIGHT OF THE INTRUDER and the others in the Grafton series
Maj. Ed Hardin, FIGHTER SQUADRON (Edmond O'Brien)
"Irish" Quincannon, AIR FORCE (John Ridgley)
"King" Kong, DR. STRANGELOVE (Slim Pickens)
"Sky" King, SKY KING (Kirby Grant)

tom d. friedman · **Posted:** Tue Feb 23, 2010 12:19 am

steve mcqueen's cocky b-17 bomber pilot character in the movie "the war lover" i forgot his character name in the flick! :?:

PJ · **Posted:** Tue Feb 23, 2010 5:24 am

Steve McQueen is Buzz Rickson.

PJ
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Canso42 · **Posted:** Wed Feb 24, 2010 5:47 pm

Good point, Jerry. It's been a long time since I saw Strangelove and I don't hear real good anyway.
Have you ever seen "Fail Safe" and then immediately after, watched "Dr. Strangelove"? aaarrrrgh! head trip! I didn't get alot of the humor in Strangelove until I'd seen Fail Safe.
Too weird.

Jack Cook · **Posted:** Thu Mar 04, 2010 7:44 pm

You all suck and I'm the winner.
Here's #1!!

"Wrongway" Feldman

Canso42 · **Posted:** Thu Mar 04, 2010 8:57 pm

From the Gilligan's Island episode? It seems he "had a heck of a time getting the airplane out of the museum's basement."

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