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Re: Best Aviation Movie of All Time?
« Reply #30 on: January 20, 2011, 11:16:09 PM »
ok not a fan of the computer generated movies like flyboys and red baron(2008).......liked the great waldo pepper last segment dogfight but with the original ending where waldo crashes and the triplanes also crashes into the barn....but for best aviation film.... DR88 from the 1930's, HH's hells angels, its nice t see real flying and real explosions in a movie.

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Re: Best Aviation Movie of All Time?
« Reply #31 on: January 20, 2011, 11:17:31 PM »
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Re: Best Aviation Movie of All Time?
« Reply #32 on: January 20, 2011, 11:28:39 PM »
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Re: Best Aviation Movie of All Time?
« Reply #33 on: January 20, 2011, 11:43:44 PM »
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Re: Best Aviation Movie of All Time?
« Reply #34 on: January 20, 2011, 11:48:37 PM »
liked the great waldo pepper last segment dogfight but with the original ending where waldo crashes and the triplanes also crashes into the barn....but for best aviation film.... DR88 from the 1930's, HH's hells angels, its nice t see real flying and real explosions in a movie.
i was thinking of that earlier but couldnt remember the name. I liked that movie too

Also, while not all flying, I really liked Amelia when i recently watched it for the first time.
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Re: Best Aviation Movie of All Time?
« Reply #35 on: January 21, 2011, 12:57:31 AM »
"Strategic Air Command," with Jimmy Stewart, not Rock Hudson. 
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Re: Best Aviation Movie of All Time?
« Reply #36 on: January 21, 2011, 01:10:45 AM »
Always liked BoB, favorite part is the first or second Spanish 109 that passes over the fence to the airfield. That couldn't have been more than 10 or 15 ft from the top of that fence :O
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Re: Best Aviation Movie of All Time?
« Reply #37 on: January 21, 2011, 02:10:53 AM »
There was a WWI movie that won an oscar for best picture, I think it was called Wings, It was a silent film and was incredible.  Mid twenties if I recall correctly (gotta love AMC would never known about it if not for that).

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I hate the movie but Pearl Harbor did have the most realistic looking dog fight scenes I have seen, only reason worth watching.
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Re: Best Aviation Movie of All Time?
« Reply #38 on: January 21, 2011, 02:52:08 AM »
All i know is that Top Gun is the worst  :old:

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Re: Best Aviation Movie of All Time?
« Reply #39 on: January 21, 2011, 04:10:40 AM »
Not completely an aviation movie, but Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned How to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is always a favorite of mine. Fun fact, the set for the B-52 cockpit was made based off of only one photo, but some people from the Air Force said it looked like an exact replica.

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Re: Best Aviation Movie of All Time?
« Reply #40 on: January 21, 2011, 07:14:01 AM »
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Re: Best Aviation Movie of All Time?
« Reply #41 on: January 21, 2011, 07:33:21 AM »
WOW no one has said "Flying Tigers" starring John Wayne.
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Re: Best Aviation Movie of All Time?
« Reply #42 on: January 21, 2011, 09:08:44 AM »
havent seen it for 20+yrs but I remember thinking X-15 was great, lots of detail about, and footage of one of the coolest aircraft ever flown :aok

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Re: Best Aviation Movie of All Time?
« Reply #43 on: January 21, 2011, 09:18:03 AM »
Not strictly an aviation movie, but the original "Flight of the Phoenix" with Jummy Stewart

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« Reply #44 on: January 21, 2011, 09:39:51 AM »
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