Who is your favorite fictitious pilot or crewmember

[Chris Brame]

Gee whiz, eleven pages and no love for Donald Shimoda or Jonathan Livingston Seagull?

they're coming to take me away, ha ha...

[Rajay]

This has been a very entertaining thread. (Thanks for coming up with it, Mustangdriver!)

I don't have anyone new to add, just gotta say that I definitely agree with (in no particular order):

HM Murdock (Dwight Schultz) from the A-Team
Al Yackey (John Goodman) especially from Always
Cliff Secord (Billy Campbell) from The Rocketeer
Gene Ryack (Mel Gibson) and Billy Covington (Robert Downey Jr) from Air America

and I did come up with Frank Murphy (Roy Scheider) from Blue Thunder before I saw it posted on a subsequent page.

Finally, I HAVE to agree with Mr. Rocket J. Squirrel aka Rocky the Squirrel (Hmmm? I wonder why?)



PS Somebody mentioned the movie Flight from Ashiya. UGH!!! What a sappy soap opera! If it wasn't for the Grumman HU-16 Albatrosses, that film stock should have been burned a long time ago! (IMHO)

[mustangdriver]

Anyone remember the pilot with all of the smart remarks in Flying Tigers? The one that flies the transport into the train at the end. I always liked when John Wayne shows him the mechanics working on a P-40 under a tree and says that is the hangar. He says, "That's a hangar?" John Wayne says back, 'Were you expecting Laguardia Airport"

Another pilot and it is a small part, but one that always stuck with me is a pilot on M*A*S*H that had to fly a patient back to the 4077th a few hundred feet at a time due to a broken belt I think? It took him hours, but he finally got the patient to the camp. It was based on a real event.

[mustangdriver]

Rajay, glad you and the others are enjoying this thread as much as I am. With the nasty weather outside, this has been a great way to have some fun. I too love Air America, and always l oved this quote

Gene:"Bird dog to base, I'm going over to Tango 7 to see if I can help out."

Base: "Negative Birdog proceed on course"

Gene:"Bird dog to base f*&k off."

[Rajay]

Sharon "Boomer" Valerii and Sharon "Athena" Agathon.

Aw heck, throw in all the other eights as well.

Darn straight! I'd volunteer to fly on her (or her or her or her) "wing" ANYTIME!



an even better pic is at http://dietrichthrall.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/park_grace_vrt.jpg but I didn't think that I should embed it here...

[Rajay]

Do you count real people who (probably...you think?) just are NOT real pilots?

How about this guy...?



Talk about redundant systems, a yoke and a joystick?

[Jim Baumann]

Han Solo - Harrison Ford (Gentleman Aviator)

Jose Jimenez - Astronaut - Bill Dana

Edgar Anscome - ( The Aviator ) - Christopher Reeves

Wilhelm Klink - (HE-111 Pilot) - Werner Klemperer

Pete Sandich - (Fire Bomber Pilot) - Richard Dryfuss

Frank Towns - (Flight of the Phoenix) - Jimmy Stewart

Porko Russo

[lestweforget]

I remember watching a series when I was very young (lateish 70's?) I am sure it was called Bailey's Bird, was Australian, and had a Grumman Goose or somesuch in it. Hazy memories, but I remember enjoying it. Probably one of the founding things that got me interested in aviation. Anyone else remember it? The details may be a bit wrong!

[Rajay]

Just thought of another one that I don't think anyone else has come up with yet:

Col. Raynor Sarnac (Craig T. Nelson) from the TV series "Call to Glory"

Come to think of it, his dad and his daughter were both pretty good "sticks" too. They were Carl (Keenan Wynn) and Jackie (Elisabeth Shue).

[Jim Baumann]

Col. Raynor Sarnac reminds me of another one of the best...... Lt. Col. "Bull" Meechum aka "The Great Santini"

[ripcord]

Lincoln Bond from Towards the Unknown, Tom Jones from Mars Attacks.

[Chris Brame]

Anyone remember the pilot with all of the smart remarks in Flying Tigers?

John Carroll. Pretty good actor who never quite made it out of B pictures; sort of a second-string Gable.

[tom d. friedman]

the cocky hard assed marine colonel the great santini!! actor robert duvall. great book too!!

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[airnutz]

Ooops, mentioned it in the wrong movie thread. Not necessarily a favorite but as the air arm of the series...How about
the reptilian(you are what you eat!) Gyro Man in Road Warrior or the same actor's return as Jebediah the Airtruck
pilot in Beyond the Thunderdome?

Who was the pinup pasted on the rudder of the gyro? Homina..Homina..

[Rajay]

Since the SciFi barrier has already been breached:

Hoban 'Wash' Washburne (Alan Tudyk) from the Firefly TV series and the movie Serenity

Wash: "It's OK. I am a leaf on the wind..."
Mal: "What does that mean?"

and:

Wash: "This landing is gonna get pretty interesting."
Mal: "Define 'interesting'."
Wash: [deadpan] "Oh God, oh God, we're all going to die?"