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Old 03-23-2006, 08:45 AM
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[quote=jonbakerok]I love this thread!

The Battle of Britain.
The Birdmen (1971)
The Blue Max (1966)
The Flight of the Phoenix
The Great Waldo Pepper
The High and the Mighty (1954);
The Rocketeer
The Spirit of St. Louis

Jon I like what you did but I don't want you to miss out on "The Hunters". It is a vintage Korean War F-86 movie staring Robert Mitchum, Richard Egan and Robert Wagner. I don't know where it was filmed but they really captured the 1950s Korean landscape. My personal favorite.

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Old 03-23-2006, 01:20 PM
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Independence Day
Firefox (yay Clint)
Con-Air

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Old 03-23-2006, 02:46 PM
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The Rocketeer
1941
Always
Bullitt (hey - that Mustang was flying)
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Old 03-23-2006, 03:58 PM
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The Wizard of Oz....Flyin monkey's....can't beat that!
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Old 03-23-2006, 04:16 PM
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I think we are running out of movies.

One correction "The Flight of the Phoenix" the first one in 1965 with Mr. James Stewart, yes sir. The 2004 remake was lame.

Talk about a real pilot, James Stewart, real actor, yep, they don't make them like that anymore and I am not that old. I was barely born when the original was made.

-Flew B-24 Liberator bomber combat operations
-Twice received the Distinguished Flying Cross for actions in combat
-Awarded the Croix de Guerre
-Received the Air Medal with three oak leaf clusters.
-After flying 20 combat missions, made Chief of Staff 2nd Combat Bomb Wing 8th Air Force
-Before war ended promoted Colonel, one of a few to rise from private to Colonel 4 years
-Stewart continued in USAF Reserves after the war
-Rank of Brigadier General on July 23, 1959
-His final mission was a B-52 Stratofortress bombing run during Vietnam
-Retired from Air Force on May 31, 1968 after twenty-seven years of service

Plus all the great movies! Hummmmm Take that TC and JT.

I guess one criteria of GOOD aviation movies is will it stand the test of time. I think, although Wiz of O was great move, I would say, hey it could just be me, but flying houses and monkey's might not quite get a nod in the aviation genre. Hey I could be wrong. Probably just me. Bullet with Steve McQueen, of course a classic, but flying Mustang? well OK.

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Old 03-23-2006, 05:29 PM
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Now you are creeping me out! Those flying monkeys in the Wizard of Oz were what sent me under the couch in my younger days when it was a yearly tradition to watch it on TV.

Thanks alot......Now I won't sleep tonight!!!
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Old 03-23-2006, 05:38 PM
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For the love of all that is sacred in aviation. Such a beautiful listing of General Stewart's record to follow it up with a bunch of **** about Baum's drugged out rendition of pigeons! Next thing you know somebody will include a comment about a flying bicycle riding alien with a cell phone. You guys need to get back to building or ask for some more honey do.

FWIW I was a Tin Man fan, but Judy was hot!

LBNL Is anybody gonna answer my question about the Hippie in the C172. I am losing sleep over it.

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Old 03-23-2006, 05:47 PM
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A couple more old English films I would add -

"The Dam Busters" - 1954 - Dramatization of an actual operation in World War II in which low level Bombers from England drop skimming bombs into reservoirs in the Ruhr water system to cause floods destroying much of Germany's industrial base.

"The First of the Few" - 1942 - By the late 1920's aircraft designer R.J. Mitchell feels he has achieved all he wants with his revolutionary mono-planes winning trophy after trophy. But a holiday in Germany shortly after Hitler assumes power convinces him that it is vital to design a completely new type of fighter plane and that sooner or later Britain's very survival may depend on what he comes to call the Spitfire.
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Old 03-23-2006, 05:55 PM
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I was mature when the first Flight of the Phoenix (C-82 version) movie came out and I liked it a lot. The loss of Paul Mantz in making it was tragic. I did not expect the second one to measure up at all but I was wrong. Dennis Quaid (also a pilot) carried off the C-119 duties very convincingly and I enjoyed the second version just as much as the first, even though I knew the punch line at the start, because it was done so well. In either case you had to suspend a lot of technical disbelief and simply enjoy the story. "The Aviator" that came out at the same time was something I waited for with great anticipation but it was a disappointment to me.

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P.S. Everyone liked James Stewart and the Air Corps and later the USAF were not ignorant of that fact.

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How about starting a "worst aviation movies list" and starting it with the Iron Eagle movies as well as The Aviator. The H1 flying scenes were pathetic.

Agree with the guys earlier that Bridges at Toko Ri was excellent, and as far as I am concerned Top Gun is a classic.

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