Your favourite aircraft film?
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Ayahuasca said:
Thats great, never seen that before, made me smileI included that film in my list as it was the first film to feature F-14s and they were in the highly colourful markings used by the US Navy up until the early 80s. By the time Top Gun was made, the colour schemes were far more muted.
And yes, the Zeros are Harvards (originally converted for Tora, Tora, Tora).
And yes, the Zeros are Harvards (originally converted for Tora, Tora, Tora).
These are the famous VF-84 "Jolly Rogers" colours of USS Nimitz F-14 Tomcats used in the film.
http://www.almansur.com/jollyrogers/jollytomcats.h...
http://www.almansur.com/jollyrogers/jollytomcats.h...
The Concorde ... Airport '79
I still have a phobia of the floor of any vehicle I'm in giving way underneath me, I think driving a vehicle build by british leyland in the 1970s is an attempt to confront this fear head on.
Seriously though I don't think i have one... Airplane! is brilliant for what it is though.
Its a long time since I've seen any of the classic war films but I think its 633 squadron that has an incredibly poignant ending?
I still have a phobia of the floor of any vehicle I'm in giving way underneath me, I think driving a vehicle build by british leyland in the 1970s is an attempt to confront this fear head on.
Seriously though I don't think i have one... Airplane! is brilliant for what it is though.
Its a long time since I've seen any of the classic war films but I think its 633 squadron that has an incredibly poignant ending?
Another vote for this. My favourite film (and book) of all time:
Anyone who posts on this forum who hasn't yet seen it, go and do so immediately, then report back.
Tom Wolfe's source material was already great, but with an ensemble cast of some of the best 'real bloke' actors going: Ed Harris, Dennis Quaid, Scott Glenn, Sam Shepard...
It's astonishing to look at, particularly so with '1983' SFX, but somehow even the on-orbit stuff look convincing. The whole thing is off-the-clock macho, with pilots and astronauts chucking beer and whisky down their necks before going off to shag whatever is in range, all before breaking the sound barrier/going into orbit the next morning. The Bill Conti soundtrack fits perfectly, albeit that it's a b
disation of Holst and Henry Mancini in places.
Brilliantly un-PC, and back to the era of Real Men and Real Flying. The only thing missing from the movie is some Corvette hooliganism as per the Apollo 12 episode of 'From the Earth to the Moon'.
Anyone who posts on this forum who hasn't yet seen it, go and do so immediately, then report back.
Tom Wolfe's source material was already great, but with an ensemble cast of some of the best 'real bloke' actors going: Ed Harris, Dennis Quaid, Scott Glenn, Sam Shepard...
It's astonishing to look at, particularly so with '1983' SFX, but somehow even the on-orbit stuff look convincing. The whole thing is off-the-clock macho, with pilots and astronauts chucking beer and whisky down their necks before going off to shag whatever is in range, all before breaking the sound barrier/going into orbit the next morning. The Bill Conti soundtrack fits perfectly, albeit that it's a b
disation of Holst and Henry Mancini in places.Brilliantly un-PC, and back to the era of Real Men and Real Flying. The only thing missing from the movie is some Corvette hooliganism as per the Apollo 12 episode of 'From the Earth to the Moon'.
Two films I remember from way back were Kittyhawk (about a P40 shot down in the desert, but still able to taxi and its subsequent duelling with a German tank),
and Thousand bomber raid (the last scene I remember being with a B17 which gets stripped out as a gunship).
Can't seem to find copies of 'em anywhere.
and Thousand bomber raid (the last scene I remember being with a B17 which gets stripped out as a gunship).
Can't seem to find copies of 'em anywhere.
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