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What is your favorite aviation movie?
one man's opinion...

Posted on 07/06/2013 4:42:52 PM PDT by ken5050

Well, the cable news networks are non stop with their coverage of the air crash in San Francisco. Looking at the pictures, it seems a miracle that the number of fatalities is so low. If there is one unintended consequence of this crash..at least we will be spared talk about Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman for the next few days. As the networks are talking aviation and nothing but, I thought it would be a slight diversion to discuss our favorite aviation themed movies.


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Chit/Chat; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: aviation; cinema; film; movies
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To: yarddog
When I was a kid around 1950 the local movie theater would show a serial before the movie began. My favorite was this guy who had a rocket pack on his back and the control was on his chest.

I was probably among the last generation of kids to see children's matinees in the theater. In 1961-1962, they were presented every Saturday morning at the movie theater on the American Army base in Bad Kreuznach, Germany. Prior to the main feature, we would watch serials, including "Commando Cody"--the rocketeer in question--"Panther Girl of the Kongo" and "Blazing the Overland Trail," both produced in the mid-1950's.

161 posted on 07/06/2013 5:34:05 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: dancusa

I knew an old B-36 pilot. After he retired from the Air Force, he applied for a job at Ft. Rucker training army pilots in one of the twin engine props they were using.

They asked him if he was qualified for twin engines. He said he told them he was qualified for 10 engines. He got the job btw.


162 posted on 07/06/2013 5:34:20 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)
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To: taildragger

Tallman and Mantz were the best. I think Mantz died making Flight of the Phoenix.


163 posted on 07/06/2013 5:35:20 PM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (To stay calm during these tumultuous times, I take Damitol. Ask your Doctor if it's right for you.)
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To: ken5050

Thanks for starting it. I was an airplane nut as a kid, built so many models it drove my parents crazy, then went into the Navy as a jet mechanic and saw it for real...:)

I LOVE talking with aviation enthusiasts...


164 posted on 07/06/2013 5:35:37 PM PDT by rlmorel (Silence: The New Hate Speech)
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To: dancusa

My Dad was a B-36 crew member from 1951 to 1955. His B-36 Peacemaker crew was stationed in Texas at that time. I saw the movie a few times. They called them “six turning, four burning”. They were larger than B-52’s. They scared the living daylights out of Russians with the bomb load. The Russians had a re-engineered B-29 rip off at the time.


Your Dad was part of an elite group, for sure.

Yes, some of our B-29’s had to land in Soviet territory and they stole them.


165 posted on 07/06/2013 5:35:42 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals don't get it. Their minds have been stolen.)
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To: Borax Queen

Shatner, Twilight Zone:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightmare_at_20,000_Feet


166 posted on 07/06/2013 5:36:44 PM PDT by capecodder
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To: Sirius Lee

High Road To China-That’s another worth seeing again.
Thanks for the reminder.


167 posted on 07/06/2013 5:37:18 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals don't get it. Their minds have been stolen.)
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To: Exeter

Hahaha...

Joey: I think you’re the greatest, but my dad says you don’t work hard enough on defense. And he says that lots of times, you don’t even run down court. And that you don’t really try... except during the playoffs.


168 posted on 07/06/2013 5:37:59 PM PDT by rlmorel (Silence: The New Hate Speech)
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To: Fiji Hill; yarddog
Wow..takes me back..in the early 50's...the neighborhood theater had kiddie specials on a Sat afternoon..parents could drop us off at noon..pick us up at 6..thye loved it...I think it cost 25 or 50 cents...lots of cartoons, one or two serials..Buster Crabbe was popular, then a "B" movie or two..also included..they'd give us candy, popcorn soda, and a miniature load of Wonder Bread..

And we would absolutely torture the matrons...drive them bananas..

169 posted on 07/06/2013 5:38:01 PM PDT by ken5050 (Due to all the WH scandals, MSNBC is changing its slogan from "Lean Forward" to "BOHICA")
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Whirlybirds the series.


170 posted on 07/06/2013 5:38:17 PM PDT by Gabilane
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To: ken5050

The High and the Mighty!


171 posted on 07/06/2013 5:38:59 PM PDT by xkaydet65
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To: Sirius Lee

Bess Armstrong makes me drool


172 posted on 07/06/2013 5:39:09 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom)
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To: ken5050
I cannot be the first Jennifer Connelly....errr..I mean Rocketeer fan!?!

173 posted on 07/06/2013 5:40:08 PM PDT by moehoward
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To: rlmorel

I wonder how many people know the original title of “And Then There None”. It wasn’t “Ten Little Indians” btw.


174 posted on 07/06/2013 5:40:09 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)
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To: ken5050

I have always thought the opening scenes of the plane crash in “Castaway” were some of the most impressive in any aviation movie showing a crash.


175 posted on 07/06/2013 5:40:43 PM PDT by rlmorel (Silence: The New Hate Speech)
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To: ken5050

No love for Jimmie Stewarts’s “Flight of the Phoenix”? One of the best non-military plane flix.


176 posted on 07/06/2013 5:40:50 PM PDT by Stingray (Stand for the truth or you'll fall for anything.)
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To: ken5050

The planes themselves are wildly anachronistic - Stampe SV4Cs - but Bess Armstrong looked very nice in those days.


177 posted on 07/06/2013 5:41:01 PM PDT by Sirius Lee (All that is required for evil to advance is for government to do "something")
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To: capecodder

Thanks! I just watched it again during the July 4th marathon, but I am so bad about remembering a lot of the titles.


178 posted on 07/06/2013 5:41:12 PM PDT by Borax Queen
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To: Sirius Lee

Very underrated movie, IMHO. There’s a comedy with Teri Garr - “Miracles” - with some funny aerial scenes.

As for favorite aviation movies:
1. Flying Leathernecks
2. Men of the Fighting Lady
3. Midway

And for the NSA trolls, FU.


179 posted on 07/06/2013 5:41:17 PM PDT by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners)
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To: yarddog

Heck, I didn’t know that!


180 posted on 07/06/2013 5:41:37 PM PDT by rlmorel (Silence: The New Hate Speech)
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