Warbird Information Exchange

How about this remake of the great 1965 Flight of the Phoenix :

http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/fligh ... ler_l.html

I can't really add anything here, anything I've ever seen and loved has been mentioned here, all the really inspirational stuff, all the funny stuff...Wild Bill Kelso...Always...even someone mentioned the Kevin Costner film 'Fandango' and Truman Sparks and his Cessna, flown under the underpasses near Dallas, TX in that movie, taxiing up to a stop sign at an off ramp and cutting in front of a car....good stuff! The one I MIGHT add to this that is worth a chuckle is Burt Reynolds and Dom DeLuise in 'Cannon Ball Run' landing on a town street to pick up more beer at a convenience store, then taking off again...good flying there...

Lots of good flying (and some equally bad) on the DVD's and cassettes out there these days...

Mark

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Not really a movie, but.....if it was, would be called "Why helos and boats don't mix!"

http://zeeb.at/oops/HeloTowJob.wmv

# 1 Paul Mantz crash landing the B-17 in 12 O'Clock High.

# 2 Any of the flying scenes in the Blue Max ( yeah I know that the Gypsy Moths are subbing for the real thing).

#3 The real shots of real F4F3s over the Salton Lake in Wake Island.

#4 Anything from The Bridges at Toko Ri.

#5 Anything from Dive Bomber, a great collection of air opps in color of the pre war Navy and the USS Enterprise CV6, at sea.

#6 The flight scenes from a Wing and A Prayer.

I guess this thread could just go one and on but here's some of mine..

1. The short take off training scenes in 30 seconds over Tokyo, Van Johnson in the cockpit of the "Duck", the B-25s with the engines being
run-up, straining against the brakes and the later cross country "hedgehopping" while in route to McClellan.

2. The Alaska turnaround scene in Strategic Air Command with an overview of the majectic B-36 blanking back South towards Texas and the intercept by the fighters I guess would have been up from Elmendorf
or maybe Eielson. It's been awhile since I last saw the scene, what were the fighters...F-94's I'm trying to remember, I don't believe they were 100's. This movie should be declared some kind of national treasure.

I forgot one of the best, Ted Lawson's swing under the Oakland Bay Bridge by the Ruptured Duck in 30 Seconds Over Tokyo.

I'm with N3Njeff,

The Beech18 scenes in Mad Mad Mad Mad World is probably my favorite.

Other Favorites,,

Wild Bill Kelso and the P40.

Coming outta the sun with the music playing, Appocalypse Now. All of the flying in that one, from "It's just a flare! It's just a flare!" To "Pull your guys back from the treeline, it gonna be a big one."

There was a movie, late 70's early 80's. It was about a fake moon landing. The fake landing is going cool, until the unmanned ship blows up in flight. Then our heros gotta unass the fake moon landing base out in the middle of the desert. There was some excellent sequences with a black jetranger chasing a piece of junk biplane. Absoulutely fantastic flying scenes.

I don't know if any of you guys watch Anime or not, (me=supergeek), but the best one ever made was CowBoy BeeBop. At a few times in the series there were warbirds and antique planes, and in the movie, they unloaded the museums warbirds to fly out and do something. It was pretty cool. Rent the movie, if nothing else its worth seeing that part.

I gotta parttake in a real live action scene this saturday. We went out to display at Petaluma on saturday with two T-28's. We were the only warbirds there. After many hours it was time to leave and Ron Rich had to go right then, we were going to go over and get gas. While we were getting gas, Ron tookoff and came back around for a spectacular pass. Wowed everyone left there. So all that were left waited for us to go. We got up to the runup area and was doing our thing when I saw a dude on a superbike riding up the parellel. He stops at the end of it and watches us runup. We rollout and take the active, and this dude line up with us on the parellel. We roll, He rolls. It was pretty cool. Needless to say, the T28 won that drag race. We weren't even airborne yet and we passed him and he had to shut it down. He had to be doing over a buck at that time. Like a dummy, I had filmed everything else that day, but I just stared at that. Oh well.

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I just remembered Burt Reynolds stopping at the little store in the cessna to get a six pack, in, I think it was the first cannonball run.

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That movie was Capricorn One; it had a great sequence with a Learjet losing its port main gear when it hits an AMC Matador on takeoff - no CGI or miniatures (like the chopper crashes) and I still wonder how they did it.
The 1959 film "The Trap" has a similar scene at the end when Richard Widmark in a '58 Plymouth police car clobbers mobster Lorne Greene's Cessna T-50 N61115 on takeoff from the Barstow, CA airport (oddly this plane is still on the register as belonging to Ajax Refrigeration in San Bernardino).

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Well right off the bat I have to say "Empire of the Sun"! The first time I saw that movie I just thought it was so incredible how they swooped in there like that! Of course I was about 7 at the time it came out and I think that was the very instant I fell in love with the Mustang! Enough with the sappy stuff... some others I don't think were mentioned - 1) The take off and assult in "Blackhawk Down"... loved that scene. 2) And the broken arrow strikes in "We Were Soldiers"... had a nice array of aircraft, with some nice skyraddier passes!

COTS

Along with the ones mentioned there are a few others:
Lady Takes a Flyer...great scenes of air to air with a PB4Y and a B-17 landing with one or two engines out
Mission Over Korea...pretty phony but there is a great scene of 4 or 5 P-51H models as Chinese fighters.
And an all time favorite...Dambusters...the scenes at night with the Lancaster doing low passes over the lake are great.
And even though it is CGI, the Hughes flying boat scene in the Aviator.

For me, the start of the movie "Always" where the PBY firebomber swoops down upon the two unsuspecting fisherman in the boat cracks me up every time I see it !!

TNZ

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Being an Invader fan, I can only vote for "Always" as being the #1 aviation movie

However, I'm also quite fond of the C-123, so movies like "ConAir" and "Air America" are fun to watch too...

BTW, for a very nice Air America documentary (the real thing, not the screen play), check out this download "Flying Men, Flying Machines"

http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/AirAmerica/FMFM/

Totally agree with you there on "Always" !!!

Also the scene where John Goodman gets a dump of red fire-retardant from the C-119 is also extremely hilarious !!!!

TNZ

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Thank Goodness!

4 pages of posts and not one single vote for that crap ass movie Pearl Harbor!

Sorry, I abhor that movie.


Wild Bill Kelso. The greatest.

"Lemme hear Yer Guns!!"

"My Guns?!?!"

"Yeah! YAAH YAAH YAAH YAAH!!!!"

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The movie "Mother Lode" where Nick Mancuso and Kim Basinger cartwheel a DH Beaver on floats. A real crash (the pilot was just supposed to bounce it or something but he actually lost it!) The pilot was ok and the Beaver was rebuilt, but HOLY COW, what a piece of film!!

Dan