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Start listing movies based on aircraft. It may help us to learn lot of maneuvers & other tricks.
my entry:
1. Top Gun!

World War 1

Fly Boys
The Red Baron
The Blue Max
Aces High

World War 2

Memphis Belle (Semi Documentary)
Battle of Britain
Tuskegee Airmen
Squadron 633
Mosquito Squadron
Dambusters
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Pearl Harbor
Empire of the Sun
Twelve O'clock High
The Battle of Midway (Documentary)

Korean War

The Bridges at Toko Ri

Modern Conflict

Blackhawk Down

General

The Aviator

Will continue..............

wow...
never heard of these movies.
will search on net.

have seen Pearl Harbour


Thanks VC

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev8Lqm5Ngi8
This is a documentary on SR-71. Really good.
It has 5 parts. The link is of 1st part.
Enjoy!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5hDjcF9lGo&feature=related
Part 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=su8rDySH6DY&feature=related
Part 3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yH-xu5Ni40U&feature=related
Part 4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X1kVqZOUWM&feature=related
Part 5

Gr8 list VC

Thanks! That list is based on my personal collection. search the net you will find more.

Red Tails..based on Tuskegee Airmen will be released in 2012. Trailer looks interesting..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpA6TC0T_Lw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pidKTNCGbkk

Behind Enemy lines

Those men and their magnificient flying machines ( Best movie ever )
One Niner Right

1:Aircraft one.- based on most secure and hightech airplane, belonging to American Presidents

Hello VC sir!!!!!!!!!!! you missed some
1)Iron eagle 1 and 2
2)Air force One

will continue.........................

Darling Lily
The Great Waldo Pepper

1. Stealth (Mostly CGI, but still)
2. Behind Enemy Lines ( the thrilling SAM-bogey chase)

nice idea for a thread Vikalp11 - as I try and catch most plane related movies! But VC has covered most of them.
Slight edit to Gaurav's title - its "Those magnificent Men in their Flying Machines" (one of my all time favorites too!)
Another old one "The Flight of the Phoenix" (has an aeromodelling reference)   

Thanks king,
I guess I have seen that movie (the flight of the Phoenix) 5-6 years ago! It was telecasted on Star Movies.

Battle of Britain
Dark Blue world
Spirit of St. Louis
Amelia

Look closer
Govind Nihlani's Vijeta, my all time favourite, reason, flew Kiran in my training days, went to same squadron as in vijeta , had fire on take off and jumped out exactly like that. More than anything, it was a real movie not some Hollywood mumbo jumbo

I wonder you all missed 'Con Air'.

Spirit of Saint Louis 
Airport 79
Dark Blue World a Czech with eng subtitles
Memphis Belle movie on flying fortress
Hell’s Angels 1930
Executive Decision 
Wings (1927)
We were soldiers ( the heli flying part)

Ha..ha... here comes Gusty Sir's list. Great... {:)}

Some more that I missed out - Broken Arrow, The Devils Alternative, Blue Thunder.

Augustinev - wow thats something!  :hatsoff: - what aircraft are they - mig 21 or gnats? Also how did they fly compared to todays modern fighters?
Was just thinking of Vijeta and sure enough they are showing it for the next 3 days on good old DD! Catch it for those who haven't seen it.   

skyfighters - cool aerial sequences with mirage 2000
faith hope and charity

There are multiple movies in the "Airport" series, including one involving a Concorde. 

One more... "Flight of the Phoenix".

How could I forget "Where Eagles Dare"?

Though factually incorrect, it showed a Bell Model 47 Helicopter (The Goldfish Bowl) as a German helicopter used during WW2.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOFzswp9LEs

The Model 47, much loved by our own Bollywood film makers of the seventies, had it's first flight on 8th. Dec. 1945, much after WW 2 ended.

Flew this beauty too

Thanks, Migs, I am still on them, the best aeroplane ever made

For the reason saikat posted,Mission Udaan

Hey augustinev, are you a fighter pilot?!!
which fighter a/cs have you flown?

:giggle: :giggle: :giggle:

made a mistake???

Flatspin_King, you can't compare apples with pineapples.

The MiG21 and the Hawker Siddley Gnat just don't measure up on the same platform. Each had/has it's own intrinsic flight characteristics. The Gnat earned a sobriquet of "The Sabre Killer" in '71, primarily because it could turn inside the F - 86.

However, let Gusty fill you in on the finer details............................

Vikalp, my dear, Wing Commander Augustine is a veteran fighter pilot who has headed MOFTU (MiG Operational Flying Training Unit) and has just relinquished the post of Commanding Officer of OCU (Operational Conversion Unit) Kalaikunda Air Base.

Not only that, he has seen service during Operation Vijay (Kargil)

He is not just a Fighter Pilot, he is THE Fighter Pilot!!!

Gusty. correct me if I got the technicalities lopsided.

Yes Augustine Sir, Vijeta is one of my favorite, and also Border, made on a real war theater instance. And who can forget Grave yard of Tanks created by Brave gallant Pilots of IAF.

Another one of my favorite is "Behind Enemy lines" mentioned by Ujjwaana above.

Oh boy....such a great person betwenn us!!
SALUTE SIR

Gnat was a subsonic fighter with a limited ROA. for it's time it was good, mig could go higher faster had missiles , gnat didn't have missiles

Firefox (1982)-A pilot is sent into the Soviet Union on a mission to steal a prototype jet fighter that can be partially controlled by a neuralink

Gusty please explain ROA.

Radius of action, ROA, name says it all

The Right Stuff (partially on space program but depict early supersonic aviation)
October Sky (its on DIY rockets but still holds good for aircraft genrie)
Stealth (aircraft design that i idolize)

October Sky is one of my favorites  :thumbsup:

VC - not comparing gnats and mig 21's at all. I just vaguely remembered that they were more or less from the same era -  although the mig was clearly superior. Both were used in the 1965 war, although according to wikipedia the migs were inducted in IAF 1964 and due to limited numbers and limited pilot training did not play a dominant role 1965. But were very effective in 71. Hadnt seen Vijeta in a while so couldnt remember what they were flying ...

Btw its not a movie but I try not to miss "Aircrash Investigation" on Nat-geo   

+1 Flatspin!

"Vijeta" and "The Rescue" is my heart touching movie in which professionalism covers personal feelings and devotion for family is main. Some may say that less acting during propose to supriya pathak, but I must say "excluding over reacting of filmy and full of reality."

Of course "The rescue" have very little (last) part of flying a large plane by a non-pilot and may be with some facinating part of pyrotechnology, but I prefer when the lad opens his coat to show his national flag on tea-shirt to introduce them-self so that fighters not hurt them.

bumped an old thread..... just for  a new comming up but in 2013... should be awesome... :salute:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=oLyTzIslEQk

 ;D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nw2hI5Y8VI8

 :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpA6TC0T_Lw

Looks like a sequel to Tuskegee Airmen. Same actors too. Can't wait for it to be released.

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-january-9-2012/george-lucas

Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Actors- Tom Hanks (My favorite), Matt Damon ,Vin Diesel and Tom Sizemore.


Also based on World War II. Not based on aircrafts but includes a great scene of P51 Mustang bombing the German tank at the end.

Great Movie. Must watch if you like War/History based movies.
Has 8.5/10 rating on IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120815/).

I was out of town for a couple of monts, so it was a kind of hibernation period for me..During this period,i used to visit mahalaxmi on saturdays and i have got hold of following movies. Few are yet to be watched,most of them i have seen..

The Aviator

Waldo Pepper

Dark Blue World

Firefox

Flyboys

Stealth

Iron Eagle 1,2,3,4

Mosquito Squadron

The Spirit of St.louis

The Rad Baon

Those magnificent men in their flying machines

Topgun

Tuskegee airmen

Con Air

Flight of the phoenix

a couple of above was boring for me(please dont mind),
but the Aviator :hatsoff:, those magnificent men in their flying machines  :giggle:,and flight of the phoenix  :bow:,mosquito squadron :bow:,spirit of st louis :thumbsup: are my favourite...
still hunting for good print for "red tails" 8-).

got one off.... saw it now... was any one aware..??

> Fighter Pilot: Operation Red Flag

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0353168/

a song for it...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TSH6OmO-Dw&feature=player_embedded

A new movie also coming of denzel washnigton by the name of "FLIGHT" based on a true story

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1907668/

here is the discussion on the movie

http://www.rcindia.org/chatter-zone/denzel-washington-in-'flight'-trailer/

1.United 93 (2006)
 2.Airplane! (1980)
 3.Zero Hour
 4.The High and the Mighty (1954)
 5.No Highway In the Sky (1951)
 6.The Spirit of St. Louis (1957)
 7.Red Tails, released a month ago.
  8.Red Eye (2005)
  9.Pushing Tin (1999)
10. Only Angels Have Wings
11. The Aviator (2004)
12. Casablanca (1942)
13. Top Gun (1986) and Donnie Darko (2001)
14. Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) and Flightplan (2005
15. Die hard 2
16. The Expendables 2011
17. Tail Sting
18. The Taking of Flight 847
19. Terror in the Sky
20. Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
21. Turbulence (1997)
22. Turbulence 3
23. Murder on Flight 502
24. Miracle Landing
25. The Delta Force
26. Snakes on a Plane...... Absolutely awful movie
27. The Pursuit of D. B. Cooper
28. Flight 93
29. Seven in Darkness
30. Falling from the Sky: Flight 174

Movied out  Stu with help from Mrs. Stu

A couple more,

Trinity And Beyond
Strategic Air Command
The Great Waldo Pepper
Pancho Barnes
Air America
Fly Away Home
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Wind
BAT 21

Stu  There's plenty more but we just can't remember the names, old age they call it. We call it a nuisance.

Sorry Guys I didn't realise this went back 2 pages so there are a number of repeats. But that's TV for you. :-)

we may have missed a few... again bumping an old topic.

HOT SHOTS (its a Parody of "Top Gun")
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102059/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1YyWDtAU-4

AIRPLANE:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080339/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4_4l7WTMzM

Downloaded a few more:

Red Tails ( More like Tuskegee Airmen - Part 2 - predictable plot but Great CG / flying sequences, Dark Blue World (Highly recommended - IMHO at par with Battle of Britain), The Bomber (A French movie) and Hells Angels ( The original 1930 Classic produced by Howard Hughes).

For the hard hearted - I recommend that you do a torrent search for Idi i Smotri (Come and See - a Russian 1985 film) But then that is only if you are a die hard researcher/collector of WW2 films. Not recommended for the casual collector looking for 'Bang Bang and Glory' films.

VC
Thanks for Dark blue world, +1 to highly reccommended

No one mentioned "The Blue Max"  A true classic, but I guess under 50's would not have heard of it :)

Oops, sorry. VC has! Praises to the BW watchers

U missed one
Beyond Enemy Lines

The Dam Busters.

Fascinating info on the ultra simple technique used to fly at a very specific height at the time of bomb release.
This height was extremely critical for the bombs to be effective

Can elaborate if anyone is really  interested.

Yes, great B/W movie, The Dam Busters. Who was the designer? Some Wallis something?

http://www.businessinsider.com/david-cenciotti-top-gun-maverick-51-today-aviation-experience-2013-7

Blue Max and Aces High for WWI. Tora Tora Tora and Battle of Britain for WWII.
Wings Over Everest, the Academy Award winning documentary.
Then there's the French comedy Le Grand Vadrouille about RAF bomber pilots show down in France WWII.
TV show I remember fondly Tales of The Golden Monkey which featured a Grumman Widgeon, if I remember correctly.

Speaking of MiGs, don't remember the model but small film about Iranian pilot who defects with his MiG to Israel, true story. I met Victor Belenko at an airshow aeons ago when he was peddling Bedes as well as his autobiography. Would have been a nice MiG-25 centric film.

Flight of the phoenix. A movie not only based on a aircraft but also RC modellers.
A modeller actually redesigns a crashed plane and get it back to the airport ;D

anyone has an idea when in disney's planes going to come to India..?? its launched on 6th august worldwide haven't seen any thing about it being launched in india..

23th August in India

the topic name should be "aircraft" not "aircrafts"
:P :P

can't wait for disney PLANES! ;D

http://movie2k.tv/movies.php?list=search&securekey=sk1020952826&search=Disney+Planes (http://movie2k.tv/movies.php?list=search&securekey=sk1020952826&search=Disney+Planes) for disney planes

Why?

I will pat your back if you give the right answer ;D

The word aircraft has no plural?

i agree with iamhuman sir :),
"Aircraft" is a collective word, like "sheep" and "deer", and so it is both singular and plural. Words such as "aeroplane" and "jetliner" are singular and so the plural form involves the addition of the "s".

nope... it is a representative of both forms ie: I have AN aircraft and I have MANY aircraft.
it isn't I have many AIRCRAFTS...  :P

Sent from a potato using a lamp

Good

Here is one of my old posts

Just watched-

Les chevaliers du ciel (2005)
French

Sky fighters.


   ;D

Reach for the Sky
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049665/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049665/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1)

Looking forward to this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjKEXxO2KNE

@anwar sir,
Can we correct the heading please.
There's nothing called aircrafts.
The plural of aircraft is AIRCRAFT. No S.
Even Gusty has clarified this. Once recently and once long ago.

I realise that i'm a nit picker, raising issues on things that probably no one cares about.

But on this forum, maybe my inputs have helped
In changing the form of addressing others from 'Hey' to 'Sir'

Even though hardly anyone adds 'regards' at the end...
Regards.

Great thread

looking forward to 'sully'
In reality;
The pilot; Captain Chesley Sullenberger was the hero for Flight 1549.
Ditching on the Hudson for bird strike in both The Engines of the A320

Well realised ;)

Regards

Title updated.

Idi Amin bows to the "grammer Nazi" ;)

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Grammar%20Nazi

PS: Original title courtesy of OP.  And google "Soup Nazi"       

Anwar Bhai

There is one aspect that, i am sure would be missing in the movie.

post recession, some of the pilots, sully inclusive had to donate blood to make ends meet. not a lot of people who are aware of this fact. Of course it is out there on the web, if one looks close enough

Regards


PS
I have started 'Regards' business ;)

PPS
Grammar Nazi
Someone who believes it's their duty to attempt to correct any grammar and/or spelling mistakes they observe. Usually found hanging around Irc chatrooms hounding "n00bs".

 :rofl: