Anyone catch the TCM aircraft movies?

[Jackal1]

Anyone watch these?
Divebomber, Ace Of Aces, etc.
I was a little amazed at the movie Divebomber. The color had been redone and there were some awesome old aircraft scenes.
Looked it up this morning and found out the plot was written  by Frank Wead.
Pretty cool for a movie done in 1941 with Fred MacMurray and Earl Flynn.

[StarOfAfrica2]

Yeppers, I watched Divebomber.  I've seen it before, but its been a long time.  Gotta love the Wead!  I have Wings of Eagles on DVD, I've watched it like fifty times lol.

[Jackal1]

Oh yea, great classic.
" I gotta move that toe".

[me62]

I think that that was the first time I saw that movie.  I can't
figure out what airplanes where.  I thought they were Douglas
TBD-1's, but the pilot's canopy was not right.  Any guesses.

Mike
AKA BTMe62

[Hajo]

Joh Wayne starred in a Movie about Frank "Spig" Wead with Maureen O'Hara and Dan Dailey.  Good Movie.

[Jackal1]

Originally posted by Hajo
Joh Wayne starred in a Movie about Frank "Spig" Wead with Maureen O'Hara and Dan Dailey.  Good Movie.

  Yea, that was Wings Of Eagles.
That`s what I was referring to with the " I gotta move that toe" comment.
  Some of the older movies still rock.

[eilif]

the blue max rocked, so did hells angels.

[Oldman731]

Originally posted by me62
I think that that was the first time I saw that movie.  I can't
figure out what airplanes where.  I thought they were Douglas
TBD-1's, but the pilot's canopy was not right.  Any guesses.

Been awhile (decades, in fact) since I saw that film, but weren't they SBC Helldiver biplanes?

http://www.daveswarbirds.com/usplanes/backdoor.htm

- oldman

[Jackal1]

Both Helldiver models and the Dauntless were used I believe.