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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: SkyTex on June 09, 2005, 08:58:56 AM
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Just wondering if there are any ww2 movies based around the air battles (think real life MA). even good jabo or buff movies. I've seen final countdown (present day carrier timetravels into ww2). wasn't super impressed. nice view of the zero's and them getting blasted by navy jets.
Also, is the plane in Flight of the Pheonix a real plane? looks like a bomber in a p-38 type setup. If it is, then what is it?
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Battle of Britain.
Nothing like the MA.
Good movie.
RTR
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Originally posted by SkyTex
Also, is the plane in Flight of the Pheonix a real plane? looks like a bomber in a p-38 type setup. If it is, then what is it?
Learn about the original FOTP (http://stripe.colorado.edu/~steinerd/Phoenix.html) :D
In the Denis Quaid remake ( Quaid is a real life pilot, Owns a Slowtation), I think it's a C-119 Flying Boxcar.
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It is a C119 in the remake. It's based a couple of hours away from where I live. The guy who owns it also owns the only C82 Packet (the plane in the original movie) that is still airworthy.
My dad saw the C119 fly over on its way to africa for filming.
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Over Macho Grande?
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Tuskagee Airmen, Memphis Belle, Tora Tora Tora, The Drunken Bastards (something like that, based on the jolly rogers), Midway
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(http://www.bbring.com/movies/1941c.jpg)
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As far as movies go, there is absolutely no movie that portrays air combat maneuvers accurately.
The most complicated maneuvers I have seen in movies are the split-s and the barrel roll.
The flight scenes in Top Gun while they are training are interesting. Not very accurate maneuvers, but its still real footage.
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(http://www.elkman.net/fark/airplane-marlboro.jpg)
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Originally posted by Sandman
Over Macho Grande?
Oh no... NOT Macho Grande...
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Set your pvrs, tivos or whatever. This is not an accurate movie but it highlights the P-47 exclusive. They use P-51Bs for ME-109s
but other than that small problem a good fun flick.
They even have the trailer up at TCM.
Fighter Squadron / 1948
CAST: Edmond O'Brien, Robert Stack, Rock Hudson.
A dedicated flyer pushes himself and those around him during a perilous World War II campaign. C 95m. CC
Adventure. D: Raoul Walsh.
PLAYING ON TCM: 09/27/2005 06:00 PM
this looks promising too:
http://www.turnerclassicmovies.com/ThisMonth/Article/0,,62537|62538|62546,00.html
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There's always Star Wars:A New Hope. They used WWI dogfight footage.
Well, it certainly doesn't portray realistic SPACE dogfighting, so it's _gotta_ be legit for something...
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Off the beaten path, and not WW2, those are my favorites.
What's the movie with Robert Redford, where he fights in WW1, then he becomes a stunt pilot and during a movie shoot he fights the WW1 german guy that shot his newbie war wingman?
I was always a fan of The Flight of the Intruder, as the Mig is a Mig, the ZSU 23-4 is a ZSU 23-4, the Sandy is a Skyraider ...
Bat 21, an another great war aviation movie.
L'instinct de L'ange, if I recall the title correctly, it's a French movie about a rich kid that signs up for WW1 to be a pilot. He really sucks but his money keeps him in a squad. One day, there's a fight and he runs away. When he lands everybody things he's an ace because he survived. To live up to his reputation, he start to be fearless and actually becomes a real ace... till the day he let his vanity prevail above comon sense and gets shot down.:cool:
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Originally posted by SFRT - Frenchy
What's the movie with Robert Redford, where he fights in WW1, then he becomes a stunt pilot and during a movie shoot he fights the WW1 german guy that shot his newbie war wingman?
The Great Waldo Pepper (http://imdb.com/title/tt0073075/)