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Posted: 8/19/2011 5:18:23 PM EDT
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Like all of yours. Grew up with Sky King.
Those Magnificant Men and Their Flying Machines 
The Blue Max
and The Flying Tigers with John Wayne was always a fav of mine. 
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Posted: 8/19/2011 7:30:34 PM EDT
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I liked Baa Baa Black Sheep when I was a kid. Corsairs and the guy that wanted you to knock a battery off his shoulder.
Doctor Strangelove and Slim Pickens flying the B-52 at low level was a favorite. |
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Posted: 8/19/2011 9:47:22 PM EDT
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I liked Baa Baa Black Sheep when I was a kid. Corsairs and the guy that wanted you to knock a battery off his shoulder. Doctor Strangelove and Slim Pickens flying the B-52 at low level was a favorite. +1 I loved that show |
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Posted: 8/20/2011 5:05:33 AM EDT
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I'll admit proudly:
Top Gun. I watched it a couple hundred times as my kid. My dad was a USMC fighter pilot, and that is exactly what I wanted to do when I grew up. I will also submit Flight of the Intruder. I love the A6. |
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Posted: 8/20/2011 5:17:47 AM EDT
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The Right Stuff.
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Posted: 8/20/2011 5:23:39 AM EDT
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Duhh Air Wolf
Stringfellow Hawk could have been a porn name |
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Posted: 8/20/2011 5:26:31 AM EDT
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Movie: Airplane. (well, most frequently watched, anyway)
Series: Ba Ba Black Sheep Cartoon: Talespin There is a great (and little known) movie called, "The Red Baron" made around 2008. Really a good movie worth the purchase. |
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Posted: 8/20/2011 5:30:57 AM EDT
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The Bridges at Toko-Ri
Some great footage in that movie. |
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Posted: 8/20/2011 10:18:18 AM EDT
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I'm kindof addicted to the "DogFights" series.
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Posted: 8/20/2011 10:25:20 AM EDT
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Any flyong high movie by Cheech and Chong...
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Posted: 8/21/2011 5:20:59 AM EDT
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Come on no one has said Top Gun.
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Posted: 8/21/2011 5:21:57 AM EDT
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Come on no one has said Top Gun. 
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I'll admit proudly: Top Gun. I watched it a couple hundred times as my kid. My dad was a USMC fighter pilot, and that is exactly what I wanted to do when I grew up. I will also submit Flight of the Intruder. I love the A6. |
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Posted: 8/21/2011 5:29:39 AM EDT
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I grew up with Airwolf.
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Posted: 8/21/2011 5:36:08 AM EDT
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"Ripcord" and "Twelve O'Clock High" were my favorites.
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Posted: 8/21/2011 6:42:17 AM EDT
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Movies: Top Gun, The Final Countdown, Memphis Belle, The Right Stuff (Love it!). Oh yes, Flight of the Intruder, too.
Shows: Airwolf, JAG
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Posted: 8/21/2011 6:51:07 AM EDT
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Movie "The Hunters" best Korean era jet footage I've seen. The Migs were F-84Fs and I understand many of the flying sequences were done by the USAF Fighter Gunnery School, the precursor to the Fighter Weapons School. When they talk about a rolling scissors, they're actually in a rolling scissors!
Check 6! |
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Posted: 8/21/2011 7:02:08 AM EDT
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Quoted: Movies: Top Gun, The Final Countdown, Memphis Belle, The Right Stuff (Love it!). Oh yes, Flight of the Intruder, too. Shows: Airwolf, JAG "Who took a shit in my coffee mug!?" |
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Posted: 8/21/2011 8:07:29 AM EDT
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Posted: 8/21/2011 8:27:59 AM EDT
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One of my favorite shows as a kid ( along with Adam-12 and Emergency!):
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Posted: 8/21/2011 8:56:57 AM EDT
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Baa Baa Blacksheep sucked ass, they couldn't even get the paint schemes right.
Every dogfight was the same. Nurses? Elvis's bodyguard? Still waiting for a real treatment of Boyington's life. The man was fascinating. Twelve O'Clock High, I had forgotten-awesome movie |
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Posted: 8/21/2011 9:00:31 AM EDT
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I just realize how thematically similar the theme to Ba Ba Black-Sheep is to the theme of the A-Team
EDIT and WTF is "flyong" Ba Ba Black-Sheep was a favorite as a kid, and the A-team was a favorite as a teem (they always had a different aircraft) but I like most of the ones mentioned |
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Posted: 8/21/2011 9:04:04 AM EDT
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Baa Baa Blacksheep sucked ass, they couldn't even get the paint schemes right. Every dogfight was the same. Nurses? Elvis's bodyguard? Still waiting for a real treatment of Boyington's life. The man was fascinating. Twelve O'Clock High, I had forgotten-awesome movie As a kid I didn't give a shit, it was a TV show with F4U Corsairs in it, that was awesome. |
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Posted: 8/21/2011 9:07:34 AM EDT
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wings
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Posted: 8/21/2011 1:02:24 PM EDT
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Blue Max
Battle of Britain 30 Seconds Over Tokyo Bridges at Toko Ri Memphis Belle |
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Posted: 8/21/2011 1:48:21 PM EDT
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Two motion pictures immediately come to mind - more so as historical documents than for any dramatic storyline, "Dive Bomber" (1941) and "Strategic Air Command" (1955). Both are invaluable for their color footage alone. If you are lucky, you can catch both on Turner Classic Movies from time to time. This is particularly true for "Strategic Air Command," which, sadly, has never been offered in the US on DVD, or even better, Blu-Ray. On TCM you can see "Strategic Air Command" in something approximating its full VistaVision wide-screen glory.
Checkout the rarities in these assorted clips from "Dive Bomber" posted on YouTube: And here's one of my favorite sequences from "Strategic Air Command." The shot of the B-36 lifting off from Carswell AFB (along with the late, great Paul Mantz's B-25 camera ship!) and then flying through the clouds as Victor Young's score plays is still awe inspiring. |
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Posted: 8/22/2011 9:18:30 AM EDT
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The Bridges at Toko-Ri Some great footage in that movie. Agreed! |
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Posted: 8/23/2011 10:49:37 AM EDT
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The Bridges at Toko-Ri Some great footage in that movie. Agreed! The Bridges at Toko-Ri |
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Posted: 8/23/2011 11:04:34 AM EDT
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Here is one not too well known - A Gathering of Eagles
Boeing B-52G Stratofortress Minimum Interval Take Off (MITO) B-52 Refueling from A Gathering of Eagles |
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Posted: 8/23/2011 5:06:45 PM EDT
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Baa Baa Black Sheep, which turned into Black Sheep Squadron when too many people thought it was a childrens TV show. Tales of the Gold Monkey was cool. Hate to admit, but I liked Airwolf (just the flying scenes).
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Posted: 8/24/2011 4:40:10 AM EDT
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I really enjoyed Strategic Air Command as a kid. I finally got it on tape. In the late ‘70s what must have been the last surviving B-47 was being used as an electronic warfare trainer. I got to go up in it on the flight line at Oceana NAS.
A more recent movie that I like is Fly Boys, about the Americans flying in the Lafayette Escadrille. Those guys really were wild men. |
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Posted: 8/24/2011 2:35:02 PM EDT
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Movie: Fate is the Hunter with Glen Ford
I will second the poster that mentioned the Red Baron. At first I thought I would not like it, but it eas very good. |
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Posted: 8/30/2011 7:51:58 PM EDT
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Black Sheep Squadron, Midway and Tora, Tora, Tora.
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Posted: 8/30/2011 8:08:33 PM EDT
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Posted: 8/30/2011 10:56:34 PM EDT
[#34]
Black Sheep Squadron
Riptide Airwolf Blue Thunder Any WW2 flying movie and all of the flying documentaries |
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Posted: 8/31/2011 12:57:28 PM EDT
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Fate is the Hunter is a great movie...an even better book.
Strategic Air Command is on NetFlix. Jimmy Stewart retired as a 1 star general from the USAFR. I think he WAS a LTCOL when the movie was filmed. Also, who better sto serve as his F/E than Col. Potter? Loved the book, hated the STORY, loved the flying in Air America. That Pilatus Porter is an AWESOME machine. ka |
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Posted: 9/3/2011 1:27:52 PM EDT
[#36]
12'O Clock High. Lots of the old episodes are still up on youtube.
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Posted: 9/3/2011 3:25:01 PM EDT
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Posted: 9/3/2011 4:03:44 PM EDT
[#38]
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There is a great (and little known) movie called, "The Red Baron" made around 2008. Really a good movie worth the purchase. Very good movie. It is on Netflix for instant viewing. |
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Posted: 9/3/2011 4:09:59 PM EDT
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30 Seconds Over Tokyo I haven't seen the movie, but read the book when I was in my early teens. Still remember the part about Capt Lawson having his leg amputated. |
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Posted: 9/3/2011 6:47:44 PM EDT
[#40]
If you rent 30 Seconds Over Tokyo please get the proper black and white version. Ted Turners bastardized color version is just.............wrong.
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Posted: 9/4/2011 10:15:00 PM EDT
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Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo is in my opinion the best aviation movie ever made. It is basically four different stories in one movie; 1) the relationship between Capt. Ted Lawson and his wife, 2) the flight training for the mission, 3) the mission itself, and 4) the long and dangerous journey out of China to get home alive. The movie is true to form in both the book, and the actual historical account of the raid.
I watched the movie many times as a kid, and when I got in a real B-25 for the first time in my 30's, I knew exactly where eveything was, especially that short crawl through the tunnel into the nose .
As stated previously, the black and white version is the only way to watch it. Freezing the flying frames on a digital TV is an added bonus I couldn't do back in the 50's. Jimmy Doolittle is The Man, and a true American hero, along with his other 79 Raiders too. Sargent Thatcher, the tail gunner on the Ruptured Duck is one of the very few remaining survivors. |
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Posted: 9/4/2011 10:33:07 PM EDT
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Blue Max Battle of Britain 30 Seconds Over Tokyo Bridges at Toko Ri Memphis Belle I'll add Tora Tora Tora to your great list. and 12 O'clock High. And The Flying Tigers. |
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Posted: 9/14/2011 12:52:19 PM EDT
[#43]
Always with Richard Dreyfuss, Holly Hunter & John Goodman.
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Posted: 9/15/2011 5:51:17 AM EDT
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There are two versions of the Memphis Bell: a 1990 Hollywood feature film, Memphis Belle and a 1944 documentary film, Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress. The Hollywood movie is kind of crappy. The 1944 documentary is really scary. They sent a film crew on several missions to record things. Of the two guys I knew well enough to talk about the details of flying bombers in WWII, one got shot down. The other was asked if he wanted to go beyond the 25 mission limit. No! No! No! Of the guys he knew who did, not a one of them survived.
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Posted: 9/15/2011 6:18:46 AM EDT
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Jimmy Doolittle is The Man, and a true American hero, along with his other 79 Raiders too. Sargent Thatcher, the tail gunner on the Ruptured Duck is one of the very few remaining survivors. The 80 Raiders knew it was suicide mission, and after he landed Doolittle fully expected to be court-martialled for the loss of the aircraft and crews. |
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Posted: 9/15/2011 6:55:20 AM EDT
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Quoted: Quoted: Baa Baa Blacksheep sucked ass, they couldn't even get the paint schemes right. Every dogfight was the same. Nurses? Elvis's bodyguard? Still waiting for a real treatment of Boyington's life. The man was fascinating. Twelve O'Clock High, I had forgotten-awesome movie As a kid I didn't give a shit, it was a TV show with F4U Corsairs in it, that was awesome. I was there, too.  I was sort of like Far Side's Ginger: Title sequence with Corsairs...blah, blah, blah story line... CORSAIRS flying! ...blah, blah, blah visit nurses... CORSAIRS flying! ...blah, blah, blah get in trouble with Col Lard ... CORSAIRS flying! ...blah, blah, blah, get out of trouble thanks to Gen Moore... CORSAIRS flying!"Catch-22" had awesome flying sequences! I watched the CBS cut down TV version (as a Sunday Night Movie). IIRC, they left anything resembling the storyline on the cutting room floor, and stitched together all of the flying sequences. IT WAS GREAT (for an ADD kid who loves old warbirds)! |
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Posted: 9/15/2011 7:25:52 AM EDT
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Blue Thunder
Airwolf Doctor Strangelove Tora! Tora! Tora! 12 O'clock High Baa Baa Black Sheep Tales of the Gold Monkey (forgot that one... need to look for it) |
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Posted: 9/15/2011 11:30:09 AM EDT
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Jet Pilot with John Wayne and that lady with big tits.
Red Flag with Wiliam Defoe and that lady with big tits. WINGS Sandpiper Air with that lady with big tits |
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Posted: 9/16/2011 3:04:04 AM EDT
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Jet Pilot with John Wayne and that lady with big tits. Red Flag with Wiliam Defoe and that lady with big tits. WINGS Sandpiper Air with that lady with big tits I see a pattern or two here. And I like both of them!
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Posted: 9/17/2011 2:22:57 PM EDT
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Baa Baa Blacksheep sucked ass, they couldn't even get the paint schemes right. Every dogfight was the same. Nurses? Elvis's bodyguard? Still waiting for a real treatment of Boyington's life. The man was fascinating. Twelve O'Clock High, I had forgotten-awesome movie As a kid I didn't give a shit, it was a TV show with F4U Corsairs in it, that was awesome. Did you ever notice in the back ground you could hear dirt bikes? |
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