MUST SEE AIRPLANE MOVIES

[Dave Clark]

High Road to China
Tom Sellick
Bess Armstrong

Not available in DVD but a family classic to be viewed when you're laid up with a cold. Or any other time for that matter. Fantastic flying scenes with Stampes or Tiger Moths or some such. Lots of action.

[Metal Master]

I do not recall the name of the movie and I have only seen it once. Baiscly it was about how Stinson L5's won the Korean War and How the Leading actors fought over one of there wives in Japan. Great shots of L5's flying though.
Does any one know the name of this movie?
Jim

[iowa]

i was at the hospital most of the night
and watched
'one six right'
between patients.
what a great documentary about van nuys airport!!
very well done.
boy, it was sure sad to see what daley did to meigs!!
ploughed, not painted 'X's' on the runways!!
how many of you guys fly 170's at V N's?
iowa

[iowa]

another fact that came up in the above movie
was that one GA aiport per week is lost in USA!!
wow.
52/year!!
iowa

[Dward]

Dave Clark, High Road to China is my favorite. I saw it offered on ebay in a foreign type format, PAL I think. Maybe the newer DVD players will handle this?

[jrenwick]

Dave Clark, High Road to China is my favorite. I saw it offered on ebay in a foreign type format, PAL I think. Maybe the newer DVD players will handle this?

Some of the more expensive DVD players may handle both, but your television won't. You need NTSC. PAL has a different number of screen lines, a different scan rate, etc. Completely incompatible with TV sets in the US.

Best Regards,

John

[Dward]

The collective knowledge on this forum still amazes me. Thanks John!

[bsdunek]

How about "Bush Pilot"? This is a 40's movie made in Canada about a bush pilot that has his half brother move into his terratory.
Story line like an old western, but nice shots of Beaver's and Ottor's operating on floats.

[jon s blocker]

How about The Blue Max, (I think thats what it was called), with George Peppard.

[Robert Eilers]

I watched a great old movie the other night starring Carey Grant. The movie was titled "Only Angels have Wings" and was about airmail pilots in South America.

[dacker]

The Blue Max, The Great Waldo Pepper, Bat 21, Air America, Bridge At Toko-ri, Birds Of Prey (for the helo buff, great flying, sucky plot), Blue Thunder (also for the helo buff), Rocketeer (some flying scenes with vintage race plane replicas), Midway, Tora, Tora, Tora!, Baa Baa, Black Sheep (the movie and series had some great Corsair footage), Memphis Bell... I'll think of a few more later.
I just bought Fly Boys, but haven't watched it yet.
David

[blueldr]

bsdunek,

If "Bush Pilot" was a '40s movie, the airplanes were sure as hell not Beavers and Otters. Those are both post WWII designs.

[Curtis Brown]

You, me and Dupree. Not an aviation movie. But the opening scene is a 170 making a low pass then landing on a mountainous strip. About 30 seconds but I got a kick out of it. Movie was funny too.

[bsdunek]

bsdunek,

If "Bush Pilot" was a '40s movie, the airplanes were sure as hell not Beavers and Otters. Those are both post WWII designs.

Well, I could be wrong about the planes, but they sure look like Beavers and Otters. Maybe Stinsons? The movie was made in 1941, starring Jack LaRue, Austin Willis, Rochelle Hudson & Frank Perry. In any case, it is a really neat movie about bush flying.
Two others - "Atlantic Flight, made in 1937, featuring a Lockheed Electra making a transatlantic mercy flight, and "Murder in the Clouds", made in 1934. Great biplane shots and flying. All available through Amazon.com

[GAHorn]

The Blue Max, The Great Waldo Pepper, Bat 21, Air America, Bridge At Toko-ri, Birds Of Prey (for the helo buff, great flying, sucky plot), ....
David

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