Favorite Aviation Scene from a Film.

Flat 12x2 · **Posted:** Wed Oct 12, 2005 8:32 am

Scott WRG Editor wrote:

Greg Schneider wrote:

And who could forget the trench run in STAR WARS. classic...

Which actually is more on topic than you might realize. George Lucas used WWII guncamera footage for the shoots of Tie Fighters and X-Wings, in some cases almost shot for shot. He also used other footage as the basis for the Tie Fighters attacking the Millenium Falcon (this footage being shot from B-17's and B-24s of attacking German fighters) It's interesting seeing the footage side by side with the finished movie.

& for the final bombing run in the canyon he copied the Lancaster bomb runs from the Dambusters

Flat 12x2 · **Posted:** Wed Oct 12, 2005 8:35 am

I cant belive nobody has mentioned the Walnut Ridge seans from 'the best Years Of Our Lives'

skymstr02 · **Posted:** Wed Oct 12, 2005 8:44 am

Eight pages and nobody has said.......

Bat 21?

of course I'm not biased...

skymstr02 · **Posted:** Wed Oct 12, 2005 8:50 am

[quote="Chris Brame"]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.
quote]

That was Clay Lacy out of Van Nuys that did the Lear stunt. They fabricated a false main landing gear and affixed it to the left wing. After take off, they retracted just the real left main. You saw the result.

When the Lear was bellied in, they dug a trench, towed the plane in, and backfilled with dirt up to the belly skin.

bdk · **Joined:** Sun May 02, 2004 1:16 am **Posts:** 11324

Flat 12x2 wrote:

I cant belive nobody has mentioned the Walnut Ridge seans from 'the best Years Of Our Lives'

If you are talking about the scene with the derelict B-17s, that was Cal-Aero Field- now more commonly known as Chino Airport.

Flat 12x2 · **Posted:** Wed Oct 12, 2005 2:17 pm

bdk wrote:

Flat 12x2 wrote:

I cant belive nobody has mentioned the Walnut Ridge seans from 'the best Years Of Our Lives'

If you are talking about the scene with the derelict B-17s, that was Cal-Aero Field- now more commonly known as Chino Airport.

OK. so I was guessing at the location (maybe it was set in the Midwest ?), at least you knew what I meant , Chino would make more sense re. location to Hollywood
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tom d. friedman · **Posted:** Wed Oct 12, 2005 4:54 pm

interesting on the catch 22 hack scene, i always wondered how they did that too, especially decades before digital / computer photo technology. now they can take those melons & eat them for a snack, while pushing a few buttons to create the same scene!!!

Eric Friedebach · **Posted:** Wed Oct 12, 2005 6:41 pm

I’m sure “Wings” has been mentioned.

I saw this in a theater once with a live piano player. He played nonstop through the whole movie, which was just amazing. That is a skill that only a handful of people today have.

And Clara Bow had it going on!

tom d. friedman · **Posted:** Wed Oct 12, 2005 10:06 pm

i can think of countless scenes from dr strangelove..... 2 of my favorites being actor slim pickins naming the survival gear " 1 pack of chewing gum...... 2 propholactics....... etc . & then naturally when he rides the nuke down like a rodeo guy on a busting bronco. peter sellers was fabulous in multiple roles in that flick, my favorite being soviet premier pissoff!!!! talk about a dark comedy!!!

TEXANTOMCAT · **Posted:** Tue Nov 08, 2005 10:52 am

Sorry to resurrect an old thread

mine have to be....

The slow mo Zero shot in Pearl Harbor...buzzing over the washing line

Love the start of Always with the PBY....

The Air Race in The Rocketeer (HOW undervalued is that Movie?!)

Strafing scene in Dark Blue World...

Jim in the crashed Zero with model circling him in Empire of the Sun (why? cos I own that T-6....)

Bond scrapping on top of a Beech 18 in Octopussy

and, if you'll forgive me, the end of Hot Shots...when the Huey departs into a red sunset...typical Vietnam scene then flies BEHIND the sun....always makes me laugh!

TT

TEXANTOMCAT · **Posted:** Tue Nov 08, 2005 11:34 am

By the way - and you may think I'm barmy but in the 1980s I remember seeing a colour film or TV movie which had some form of duel between a P-40 and German tank - the P-40 could only fast taxi and not fly (for some reason) AM I mad or can anyone tell me what it was!

It was set in the desert I think....

TT

skymstr02 · **Posted:** Tue Nov 08, 2005 12:46 pm

I remember that movie. Lloyd Bridges was the tank commander and Doug McClure was the Warhawk pilot. I think that Roy Thinnes was in there too somewhere. I seem to remember seeing it in the early 70's though, made for TV movie?

Originalboxcar · **Posted:** Tue Nov 08, 2005 12:53 pm

TEXANTOMCAT wrote:

By the way - and you may think I'm barmy but in the 1980s I remember seeing a colour film or TV movie which had some form of duel between a P-40 and German tank - the P-40 could only fast taxi and not fly (for some reason) AM I mad or can anyone tell me what it was!

It was set in the desert I think....

TT

Yeah, I remember that movie too. What WAS the name of that?

regards,

t~

skymstr02 · **Posted:** Tue Nov 08, 2005 12:54 pm

Found it, geez I love the internet. It was called "Death Race". Heres a link:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069953/

Jack Cook · **Posted:** Tue Nov 08, 2005 4:23 pm

How about Aunt Bea learning how to fly on the Andy Griffith Show!
Her quote: "It's so complicated!! There are over 24 instruments in
the cockpit and the only one I recognize is the clock!"
How many of us have been there?

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