Top 10 Movie 'Dog Fights' of all time ...

[Yak3]

General footage, for me it has to be Empire of the Sun. The Mustang attack sequence is spectacular.

It was pretty spectacular. But did you know some of it was done with R/C models?

Here's a blog from one of the pilots involved, the late Mark Hanna

http://vintageaeroplanewriter.blogspot.com/2011/12/skip-bombing-p-51s-in-empire-of-sun.html

Yes, I was lucky enough to count Mark as a friend.

Model Mustangs were produced for the film, however what you see in the movie, with the exception of one scene (where a Mustang is producing smoke if I recall correctly) is all real P-51 footage.

[CoastieJohn]

It's been a long time since I seen the movie but didn't The Blue Max have numerous dog fight scenes?