Your favourite aircraft film?

[james_tigerwoods]

Airplane
Hot Shots....

[PaulG40]

i remember watching 'blue tornado' as a kid. Planes and UFO encounters.

[Caruso]

UP.

Edited by Caruso on Thursday 25th March 20:34

[bennyboydurham]

[Junior Bianno]

speedtwelve said:

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 bdisation 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'.

+1! Definitely my favourite film as a kid, and I still love it now. The last scene where Yeager crashes the Starfighter is cinematic history.

[dr_gn]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-I5zY-4ZtkY

[FourWheelDrift]

Junior Bianno said:

+1! Definitely my favourite film as a kid, and I still love it now. The last scene where Yeager crashes the Starfighter is cinematic history.

http://www.check-six.com/Crash_Sites/NF-104A_crash...

[Eric Mc]

Interesting little article.

[Nick_F]

Sole Survivor quite frightened me as a child.

Angels One-Five is on my list, as are The Sound Barrier, the original Flight of the Phoenix and Biggles.

[Gargamel]

1000 plane raid I always thought was a decent film.

[FourWheelDrift]

As a children's film I saw ages ago I did like The Last Flight of Noah's Ark because they used an old B-29 in it flying. But then didn't like it because they destroyed other airframes making other scenes 1980 wasn't really that long either for such destruction to have been done.

[Ayahuasca]

Capricorn One - about a faked moon landing and subsequent cover-up.

[Simpo Two]

Ayahuasca said:

Capricorn One - about a faked moon landing and subsequent cover-up.

Mars actually - it was on a couple of nights ago.

Sadly it may have encouraged various halfwits to spout their moon 'conspiracy theories'

[ErnestM]

Nobody liked "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow" ?

[pacman1]

What was that really good film with the guy from Quantum Leap in?
He's in a light aircraft lost over the ocean, low on fuel and radio not working properly. He ends up managing to speak with a commercial flight on SW who's captain is old school VFR, and somehow they manage to work out where he is.
Something to do with them syncronising watches as they both see the sun set from their individual positions.
Cool film. True story I think.

Edited by pacman1 on Thursday 25th March 16:15

[mrmaggit]

Eric Mc said:

Simpo Two said:

Eric Mc said:

I think "Piece of Cake" was based ona book by Derek Robinson, not Len Deighton.

The 'Piece of Cake' I know was a TV series on LWT; I have the 'making of' book.



As for my favourite aircraft film, well it's 'Airplane!' of course

I did a quick Google and Derek Robinson was indeed the author of the original book.

The book is much better than the TV programme. He also wrote a book about a WW1 fighter squadron, "Goshawk Squadron", not a bad read either.

[Eric Mc]

Read it too. Pretty good.

[happygoron]

Piece of Cake is one of my favorite books of all time. There's also a sequel called "A Good Clean Fight".