Movies that made planes famous

Whos up for making a list of movies that made a particular plane famous?

F-14 Tomcat- Top Gun
F/A-18 Hornet- Independence Day
Mosquito- 633 Squadron
Lancaster- Dam Busters
Spitfire- Battle Of Britain
AH-64 Apache- Firebirds(AKA Wings Of The Apache)
UH-1 Iroquis- Most Bloody Vietnam Movies

Any More?

B-52 - Dr Strangelove.
Cessna 150 - The Flying Doctor (TV - mid '60's)
Mitsubishi Zero - Tora Tora Tora
Sopwith Camel - The Billy Bishop Story
Hercules - Air America
Boeing 707 - Airport
U2 - Thirteen Days In May
U2 - The Francis Gary Powers Story
F-80 or F-86 - Jet Pilot (The Duke)
B-17 - Catch 22
X-1 - The Right Stuff
The Goodyear Blimp - Black Sunday
Avro Arrow - The Arrow
F-15 - Iron Eagle

[edit on 24-9-2006 by V Kaminski]

Blackhawk - Blackhawk Down
F-16 - Iron Eagles
Mig-28 - Firefox
A-6 - Flight of the Intruder
B-17 - Memphis Belle




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The Memphis Belle - great movie.
B-49 - The Enola Gay
Canadair (DeHavilland) Water Bomber - Always (Audrey Murphy's last movie)
Bell 47 - MASH
Lockheed Vega - Amelia Earhart and The Final Flight
Lockheed Constellation - Hughes Spruce Goose - The Howard Hughes Story

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Originally posted by V Kaminski
B-49 - The Enola Gay
[edit on 24-9-2006 by V Kaminski]

I think you meant B-29! This is the plane you are talking about:




Am I correct?

It dropped the Atomic Bomb over Heroshima! The B-49 is a different plane entirely!

Tim

F/A- 18 Hornet : Behind Enemy Lines
Folland Gnat(2 seater Trainer): Hotshots
( Might I add that the single seater a/c is like a lil' sportscar )
B-2 Spirit: Broken Arrow
SR-71: some movie about a guy who dies in a SR-71 accident and is being interviewed by a supernatural pshycologist! forget the name though

Sorry for the typo eh. You can be correct as much as you like eh. Was there an Enola Gay piloted by someone other than Tibbits eh? Duh, lighten up and add some pics eh. Have some fun eh. LOL eh. BTW it's spelled Hiroshima eh.

Victor K.

The SR-71 flick sounds nifty... anyone with a name? And there simply MUST be a 747 movie.

STS Shuttle - James Bond 007: Moonraker

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Air Force One - 747

Not sure what all the ehing is about.

shurely you haven't forgotten 'airplane's 747?

yes, i forgot, and don't call me shirley.

Originally posted by billybob

shurely you haven't forgotten 'airplane's 747?

yes, i forgot, and don't call me shirley.

You mean 707.

Originally posted by V Kaminski
The SR-71 flick sounds nifty... anyone with a name?

What's that one about the robot boy who nicks one to get home? S.I.M.O.N. or something?

tv (mini)series: Hawkwer Hurricane - Piece of Cake.

What's the plane in Snakes on a Plane? (Haven't seen it yet)

F117 (cough!) and 747 - Executive Decision

Broken Arrow was actually (wait for it) the B3! go back and look at the model and listen to the dialogue...

B 25 Mitchell - 30 seconds over Tokyo

Grumman Wildcat, Mitsubishi Zero and Douglas Dauntless or Devastator (I think) - Midway

Banshee - The Bridges at Toko Ri (love that movie).

more tv (live!) B36 (Peacemaker?) - Fail Safe

And then there is Jimmy Stewart flying everything in the arsenal in The Strategic Air Command Story (or something...)

Hey Kaminski, hook me up with a link to that dehavilland movie. I cant find anything about an audrey murphy. Now Audey Murphy was a great western and war flik actor along with a highly decorated war hero. His last movie was A time for dying where he played Jesse James. To hell and back is my favorite he did. Gotta love autobiographies.

IMDB Database

I looked through his filmography and dont find a movie by that name. Did a movie search and came up bupkiss also. I do remember a water bomb movie with liberators where they were skipping barrel bombs into dams. U2U me a link to Always.

Always wouldn't be a Steven Spielberg movie with (from memory) John Goodman and Richard Dreyfuss, about smokejumpers, would it?

Originally posted by HowlrunnerIV

And then there is Jimmy Stewart flying everything in the arsenal in The Strategic Air Command Story (or something...)

He gets called back from his job playing baseball to fly the B-36. Then he checks out in the B-47. Then he goes back to the ball team, as a coach I think. "Strategic Air Command" also with June Allyson.

Originally posted by HowlrunnerIV
Always wouldn't be a Steven Spielberg movie with (from memory) John Goodman and Richard Dreyfuss, about smokejumpers, would it?

LMFAO i cant see either Dreyfuss or Goodman being smokejumpers. Not to say there wasnt a movie called that with them in it, just cant see those too wearin the SJ gear and bailin out of a plane into a forest fire.

DC-4-High and the Mighty
F-86-Jet Pilot
C-123-Con Air

LOL. D'Oh. I'm sorry. The Late Audrey Hepburn not Murphy, my humble apologies for including anything which might confuse the accuracy of such a serious topic. Great movie to see with a significant other. The part where Richard Dreyfuss meets the Angel "Hap" (Hepburn) after being killed in the plane crash is really well done. She explain's to him he's dead... long story short - the movie "Ghost" but with airplanes including several types of plane. LOL.

There's a great funny part where John Goodman, the range Fire Boss named "Hal The Pal" gets whacked with a full load of the coloured fire retardant while drinking a beer, smokin' a cigar sitting under a lawn umbrella vectoring in the plane by walkie-talkie sitting on the drop range. Hilarious. It was from about '89 or maybe '90.

Victor K.

Concorde-- one of the Airport films (there were a few and i cant remember which )

I can't recall the aircraft but I do remember a movie called "Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines" about a London to Paris race.... British with Terry Thomas I think. Funny as can be... mid to late '60's? Saw it at a drive-in so a very long time ago. Even worse the theme song is infectious - those who know it will be plagued by that tune in their noggins... viral.

Thanx for listing Fail Safe I'd forgotten about that... Jeez I'm gettin' old. Hank Fonda ordering a nuke strike on New York to compensate the commies for vapourizing Moscow... at the time - I think it was B&W - it was Cold-War scary.

Thanx,

Victor K.

Originally posted by johnlear
Originally posted by billybob

shurely you haven't forgotten 'airplane's 747?

yes, i forgot, and don't call me shirley.

You mean 707.

oops. surely. i don't know planes at all.
and the space shuttle, too, in number three, or whatever.

anyone see riders of the storm with dennis hopper?
cool movie. relevent, even.