Favorite aviation movies!

[Conquest Driver]

Airplane

"Flying a plane is just like riding a bicycle...except it's harder to put playing cards in the spokes"

Plus the immortal emergency autopilot activation scene

Also, Final Countdown for the air to air refueling scene.

[Rowdy]

Alti - Porco rosso = awesome!!

Another vote for Air America..

It's a lousy movie .. BUT! Theres also a beaver in "sweet home alabama" haha thanks to my girlfriend for finding that one..

[sissyphus]

Hot Shots.

Greatest ever.

[pilotdreams]

Porco Rosso was pretty good for a cartoon. Have you guys heard of Les Chevaliers Du Ciel? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JJ-XoTZ ... re=related

[Meatservo]

I saw a movie years and years ago, I can barely remember it, but it was about a dork who figured Canada's airforce would be better off with thousands of little ultralight planes instead of really expensive real planes, so he set about designing one, and he called it the "Canadian Defender", and of course he failed to even get it airborne... Does anyone remember that one? Was it called "Canadian Defender"?

[iflyforpie]

I saw a movie years and years ago, I can barely remember it, but it was about a dork who figured Canada's airforce would be better off with thousands of little ultralight planes instead of really expensive real planes, so he set about designing one, and he called it the "Canadian Defender", and of course he failed to even get it airborne... Does anyone remember that one? Was it called "Canadian Defender"?

Is that the one where he does his wind tunnel testing on the back of a pickup truck?

[Hadji Ramjet]

That was Bob Demert of Carmen, Manitoba. For all his weird ideas (steam-powered car was the last one I saw), he is/was quite a guy; built mostly from plans the only Zero flying with the original motor, and flew his own Hurricane in the movie "Battle of Britain."

To add to the list: The Bridges at Toko-Ri, from the book by James Mitchener. Best story ever about strike aviation. Also, a really lousy Larry Hagman movie, "Deadly Encouter." Absolute crap story, but fabulous flying scenes with a Hughes 500 and Gazelles.

One more, the original "Iron Eagle," but only for the scene between the dirt bike and Art Scholl in the C-150.

[Osiris]

Another vote for Air America.

[Meatservo]

I ordered "the Defender" from the national film board last week and it came in the mail today!...on VHS. D'oh!!

[x-wind]

Not a movie but a pretty good novel: Wind Sand and Stars.

[Koizie1]

Porco Rosso is a great movie, a cool movie about flying pigs, who wouldn`t love that?

[TG]

High And The Mighty is the better of the two, in my opinion. It's the story of a DC-4 that sheds a propeller on a flight from HNL to SFO. Excellent movie. There is a wonderful scene of a 1950's version of CRM between John Wayne and Robert Stack, who plays the Captain.

Wonderful indeed!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=gmxiZZZ-2_4

Waiting for a remake with Hedley & CID

[West Coast Swell]

Mother Lode

How not to land your Beaver on Lake Lovely water.

[Hedley]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckePpL9- ... re=related

[freezerburn31]

Air America is the movie that inspired me to become a pilot.

[Darkwing Duck]

How bout that famous airplane we all know and love "The Arrow" the made for TV movie with Dan Aykroyd. I liked it.

I also like "The Battle of Britan." Someone mentioned "The Blue Max", that was good. What about "Fly Boys" I liked the flying scenes with the old Fokkers and Nieports. Would of loved to of flown in those days.

Movie I hate, "Flightplan" with Jodie Foster. Has nothing to do with running a flight plan. WTF????

[RFlyer]

Here's a few of mine:
Flyboys – Good movie about WW1 flying on the front lines.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0454824/

Birds of Prey - A Big helicopter chase movie starring David Janssen of the 60’s show “The Fugitive” Loved this – saw it as a teen and wanted to take Helicopter lessons. Good luck finding a copy, lol
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069787/

Always (+1)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096794/

Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines: Hokey by today’s standards, but some good air-to-air shots
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059797/

Battle of Britain – never saw this, but I’m told the flying sequences are some of the best.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064072/

[zed]

A couple of my faves already mentioned...

Air America... Just because I like jungles.

Six days and Seven Nights... Just because its one of the few that the wife will watch with me.

And not mentioned yet.

High Road to China. Another mediocre performance by Tom, but hey... Nice scenery, pretty lady, and 'classic' warbirds. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085678/)

[mmartin1872]

Iron Eagle.

[robertsailor1]

There have been some great flying movies mentioned for sure but for the stick and rudder guys its really hard to beat the flying in The Great Waldo Pepper..done well before all the computer enhancements.

[JoeCanuck]

I still enjoy watching Airport.

[Indanao]

Apolo 13.

[I_Heart_Seaplanes]

Out of Africa - The flying scenes in the Rift Valley are my idea of "pure" aviation. Its also of special significance to me as my grandfather and Denys Finch-Hatton were friends.

[freezerburn31]

Yes "six days seven nights" was a good movie, loved the makeshift floats on the beaver at the end.
Recently I just watched "The Red Baron" its similar to "Flyboys" but of course from the German perspective and its about the famous German ace Baron Manfred von Richthofen

[Stian]

+1 for Tora tora tora
+1 for Battle of Britain
One serie called, Peace of Cake. Nice too
+1 For Fly boys except the love story it is very nice to see a movi about WW1.
A french movi called Les chevalier du ciel, I don t know if we can find an english version.

stian