THE warbird seen most in pop culture, movies etc

[Nathan]

I was thinking yesterday what warbird we have seen the most in pop culture, movies, books, etc.

The only one I come up with is my favorite the P-40!


Just a few that I can think of:

Dogfights
Torax3
Midway
Sky Captain
God is my Copilot
Air Force
Flying Tigers
Pearl Harbor
Hellfighters(with John Wayne)
Several Flight sims and computer games featuring the P-40
Front page covers of warbird calenders
Valkyrie
1941
Many wartime advertisments.

Not bad for the old Warhawk.

[Jerry O'Neill]

I was thinking yesterday what warbird we have seen the most in pop culture, movies, books, etc.

The only one I come up with is my favorite the P-40!


Just a few that I can think of:

Dogfights
Torax3
Midway
Sky Captain
God is my Copilot
Air Force
Flying Tigers
Pearl Harbor
Hellfighters(with John Wayne)
Several Flight sims and computer games featuring the P-40
Front page covers of warbird calenders
Valkyrie
1941
Many wartime advertisments.

Not bad for the old Warhawk.

Also for the P-40:
Waiting for Dublin

And don't forget some of the P-40's in TV movies:

"Birds of Prey"
"Death Race" (aka in Canada "State of Division")
"Flying Misfits", Baa, Baa, Black Sheep Pilot Film

I'm sure there's more!
Jerry

[mustangdriver]

I would say the P-51 Mustang. It is the plane that simply everyone knows. If you tell someone a P-40, chances are they have no idea what you are talking about. If you say Flying Tigers, then they get it. But the Mustang is one that everyone knows. I would say close seconds are the B-17, C-47, and the Spitfire.

[Jesse C.]

The way some people see it, the only fighters during WWII where the P-51, Corsair, Zero, Spit and ME109 and the Flying Tiger plane, really, that is how someone once described it to me!

As for Bombers, only the B-17 and B-25 ever did anything! Ze Germans and the Japanese used only Zero's and Messoschmits!

[RyanShort1]

Is that maybe because by the time some of those movies were made they were second-rate fighters and were available for use in the movies...

Ryan

[JohnB]

The T-6...usually playing a A6M.

[Jerry O'Neill]

The T-6...usually playing a A6M.

LMAO!!!!! Only in every WWII Pacific film before and after Tora, Tora, Tora!!!

[DarenC1]

It's got to be the Spitfire, surely?

Cinema:
The Lion Has Wings
First of the Few
Mrs Miniver
Angels One-Five
Reach for the Sky
The Malta Story
The Train
Operation Crossbow
Battle of Britain
Hope and Glory
The Land Girls
Pearl Harbor
Dark Blue World

TV:
Piece of Cake
A Perfect Hero
Poirot
Over Here
Foyle's War
First Light
Not to mention umpteen Battle of Britain documentaries.

Books: (I've no idea how many, but the last time I was in my local bookshop, there were three on the shelf, and four of the Osprey Aces books on another rack)

Commando/Air Ace comics

Video/PC flight-sim games:
Spitfire '40
Tornado ECR (you could fly the Spitfire and Hurricane in this, as well as the titular jet)
Spitfire
WingOver
WingOver 2
Secret Weapons Over Normandy
Heroes of the Pacific (Spitfire and Seafire)
Heroes Over Europe
Blazing Angels - Squadrons of WW2
Blazing Angels 2 - Secret Missions of WW2
Air Conflict - Secret Wars
Combat Flight Simulator series

etc etc....

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[Dan K]

The T-6...usually playing a A6M.

...or P-47 (A Bridge Too far),

or a Fw-190 (Where Eagles Dare),

or an SBD (War and Remembrance)

or...?

[Nathan]

I would say the P-51 Mustang. It is the plane that simply everyone knows. If you tell someone a P-40, chances are they have no idea what you are talking about. If you say Flying Tigers, then they get it. But the Mustang is one that everyone knows. I would say close seconds are the B-17, C-47, and the Spitfire.

Hi Chris,

You are talked about the probable best known warbird from WW2. Which I agree. But I ment in terms of publication, movies, etc.

[Nathan]

The T-6...usually playing a A6M.

LMAO!!!!! Only in every WWII Pacific film before and after Tora, Tora, Tora!!!

Could the first movie to use T-6's as Zero's be "God is my copilot"?

[DarenC1]

The T-6...usually playing a A6M.

LMAO!!!!! Only in every WWII Pacific film before and after Tora, Tora, Tora!!!

Could the first movie to use T-6's as Zero's be "God is my copilot"?

Air Force, maybe?

[Jerry O'Neill]

It's got to be the Spitfire, surely?

Cinema:
The Lion Has Wings
First of the Few
Mrs Miniver
Angels One-Five
Reach for the Sky
The Malta Story
The Train
Operation Crossbow
Battle of Britain
Hope and Glory
The Land Girls
Pearl Harbor
Dark Blue World

Spits in the "Longest Day"
and don't forget MH434's short but memorable appearance in "A Bridge Too Far"!
Jerry

[DarenC1]

It's got to be the Spitfire, surely?

Cinema:
The Lion Has Wings
First of the Few
Mrs Miniver
Angels One-Five
Reach for the Sky
The Malta Story
The Train
Operation Crossbow
Battle of Britain
Hope and Glory
The Land Girls
Pearl Harbor
Dark Blue World

Spits in the "Longest Day"
and don't forget MH434's short but memorable appearance in "A Bridge Too Far"!
Jerry

Of course, I totally forgot those two films.

Also, I forgot Aces: Iron Eagle 3!

[Nathan]

I havent seen Air Force in awhile but you are probably correct. Although I remember P-43's being used as Zero's. More or less stock footage of a fast flying P-43.