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Well put TC... I agree with all of what you said there... From my view I'd say that the Right Stuff still tops Apollo 13 from the point that the Right Stuff covers a much wider spectrum of aviation history. From before Yeager, to Gordon Cooper's flight and everything in between...

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Here are some from me

Military

The Blue Max
Bat 21
Battle of Britain
The War Lover
633 Squadron
Spitfire
The Dam Busters
Dr. Strangelove
Reach for the Sky
God is my Co-Pilot
Hells Angels

Civilian

Cone of Silence
Spirit of Saint Louis
Islands in the Sky
Airplane - All of them
Fate is the Hunter
The Aviator

Space

The Right Stuff
Apollo 13
X-15
For all Mankind
Out of the Present

Space Fiction

Star Wars - All of them
Space Cowboys
2001 A Space Odyssey
The Astronaut Farmer
Sentou yousei yukikaze

Space History

The wonder of it all
The Red Stuff
The Rainbow Bombs

if we are talking about movies with favorite flight sequences and NOT movies that neccesarily are GOOD, then my top 5 would be:

1: Top Gun (Tomcats are pretty)
2: Stealth (the visual representation of shockwaves alone puts it up high)
3: Pearl Harbor (for goodness sakes, they actually took REAL B-25s off of a REAL carrier!)
4: Aviator (that Spruce Goose sequence... man!)
5: Iron Eagle (that Cessna flying was top notch stuff)

For movies that are good as a whole then

1: Aviator (I actually forgot it was Leo after the first 10 minutes)
2: Right Stuff (GREAT movie about the birth of the space age)
3: Flight of the Intruder
4: Pearl Harbor if the love story crud was removed
5: Stealth (it was very entertaining as a story)

Everyone forgot...

Air America! Cool

(Great soundtrack too)

Glad that the Battle Of Britain just made the list a couple of posts up.

The Joseph McConnell Story

Mind you, I just added these- the Blue Max is my #1 movie, but anything flying is good! Very Happy

For pretty decent Anime jet action, try this:

Area 88 (2005/2006, 12 episodes on 4 DVDs)

Intro #1 and the first episode in 3 parts:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJLDmEPfdWs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVLJZM7G1DI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ectqYuCDC8

Intro #2:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nP1t23LgCs

youtube is kind of dark and blurry. Not the most accurate aircraft action- but then again, they do try harder than Hollywood! Razz

I like Flyboys too...nicely done I thought..the Lion as a pet was a bit much but hey..its the movies right!

Meathook,

Watch the bonus materials on the 2 disk version - they really did have a lion as a pet in WWI Cool

parrothead wrote:

Meathook,

Watch the bonus materials on the 2 disk version - they really did have a lion as a pet in WWI Cool

They had two lion cubs at one time along with Eugene Bullard the first black combat aviator who was known as " The Black Swallow of Death"

This should make the list after it's released ... lots of it was filmed at Edwards Smile

http://www.ironmanmovie.com/

In no order:
Memphis Belle
Air Force One
Tora! Tora! Tora! (I saw this one when I was very young and I still remember that prop spinning off that blown-up P-40....)
Airplane!
The Final Countdown

Nowdays, I find that being a pilot/military aviation fanatic (has opposed to when I was a kid, when I was a fanatic but didnt' know the first thing about the capabilities of the aircraft) it is much harder for me to enjoy modern movies that include airplanes because I'm overly critical. Prime example: Behind Enemy Lines, the one with Owen Wilson. The sequence where the missiles chase their F-18F. It was just SO off the wall that its dumb!

Parkeran wrote:

I was wondering what your Top 5 aviation movies were

In order:
Tora! Tora! Tora! (Some of the best flying scenes ever, in a movie)
12 O'Clock High (A solid good movie)
The Final Countdown (Nice thought, the USS Nimitz saving Pearl Harbor)
Apollo 13 (One of the great stories, all involved doing their very best to save the crew)
Top Gun (The 'real' star of the movie was the "F-14A Tomcat!)

Honorable Mentions:
Flight of the Intruder (Great book, only a pretty good movie)
Dr. Strangelove (Great satire of the Cold War)
Strategic Air Command (America's innocent days -June Allison, good aerial photography)
Midway (Good aerial photography)
Tuskegee Airmen (I am a 'little' bias on this one)

Adrian

Oooh mine.

Battle of Britain
Reach for the Sky
633 Squadron
Dambusters
Top Gun

and the 6-10.
Wings of the Apache (Firebirds in the states)
Air Force One
Behind Enemy Lines
Flight of the Intruder
Firefox

Andy