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We watched "The High and the Mighty" last night on TV. In my opinion, that is the best airliner type airplane movie ever made.

Harold
N92CP

I watched it too. I was surprised to see "The Duke" sitting in the right seat with only 3 stripes on his sleeve. He did save the day, though, when he kept Robert Stack (the captain) from ditching.

Miles

Yes!! "The High and the Mighty" and "Island in the Sky" were great movies. I think they will be a great addition to our DVD collections!
It was nice to be taken back to a different time for a coupla of hours.
I just rented an old Korean War movie with Robert Mitchum called "The Hunters", excellent aerial footage of F-86s.
David

Yep, that scene in The High and the Mighty in which Wayne slaps his captain (played by Stack) is used at my workplace as a tongue-in-cheek example of "Cockpit Resource Management".

George,

In that situation, are you usually the "slaper" or the "Slapee" ?

Harold

Harold Holiman wrote:George,

In that situation, are you usually the "slaper" or the "Slapee" ?

Harold

Which situattion do you mean, Harold? At work? ... Or here at the website?

On the website you are "Slaper" about 50% or the time and "Slapee" about 50% of the time. You are never nothing. I guess that must apply at work also

Harold
N92CP

Hmmn. I guess I should pay better attention to how I write things, then. I thought I was just joking.

You joke

Harold

An article on AvWeb related to this thread. There's some good stuff in it.

Miles

http://www.avweb.com/news/columns/190222-1.html

That is an excellent article Miles. Thanks for pointing it out.

Harold

FWIW: For the best ever flying scenes, I vote for the Battle of Britian. Some of those dogfight sequences are fantastic. The sounds of those Merlins...., pilots attire, radio communications. Second place would be 12 O' Clock High. Third vote would be The War Lover. Top Gun is not bad but one must remember that most of their dogfighting is horizontal and generally ignores the vertical plane, plus the F-14s are going up against single engine/non afterburner Douglas A4s and bad guys in Northrop F5s. Just my rambling thoughts, Chuck

Top Gun is not about flying. It's about youthful argumentive stupidity.
Anybody ever see "The Big Lift" with Montgomery Clift and Paul Douglas?
It's an old, B&W "B"-movie by today's standards perhaps, ... but it was shot in actual post-war Berlin about the Berlin Air Lift, and the only real actors in the entire movie were ...Clift and Douglas. The rest of the entire movie was made up of actual residents and military personel. Except for the need to place Clift's engineer's seat between the pilots (to better film for the camera) it's a pretty good view of actual flying C-54's and GCS approaches in tight navigational circumstances. (Also a pretty fair/truthful example of how Nazi's were given a free-ride to the U.S.)

My vote is for "The Battle of Britain". My kids got it for me for Christmas after watching me rent it about a dozen times over the past few years. It contains a gathering of aircraft complete with dogfight scenes that can never be duplicated again (except for this hoakey digital crap hollywood is trying to pass off). Great movie, just a cut above "Midway".
For me, "Top Gun" is just a little bit painful to watch, except for when they show the H-3 at the end!
David

Yep and it's pretty cheap to buy these days at Wally Mart...about $9 on DVD. Probably one of the last movies ever to be made with so many actual aircraft from the period in actual flight.