[FormerViperDriver]

Originally Posted by MoMo

Dear FVD, you've got to admit that the B52 was a star. The bomb bay and the cockpit were great sets from which to score comedy points. Kubrik and the set were visited by SAC personel during the making of the movie in England. The SAC guys freaked out when they saw the interior of the cockpit because it was so accurate. They didn't know that the cockpit was designed by pure conjecture because the design team had nothing to go on as it was all highly classified. They just did their best to fill the interior of the cockpit with " Stuff " and make it look business-like.

There was even speculation that Kubrik was somehow conveying secrets to the Russians through the film. Typical Cold War paranoia!

One of my favourite lines is :

" The CRM Discriminator's auto-destruct mechanism must've got hit and blew itself up! "

MoMo

Agreed, the BUFF was a star of that movie. And the cockpit does look very real. I've never flown in a B-52 but did go inside a couple of times on the ground, and I can say it seemed pretty accurate in the movie. Of course details vary between the different versions of the B-52...

There are so many great lines in that movie (such as "gentlemen, you can't fight in here, this is the War Room..."), I'm not sure I can identify a "favorite one"!

FVD

[flyXwire]

Originally Posted by FormerViperDriver

There are so many great lines in that movie (such as "gentlemen, you can't fight in here, this is the War Room..."), I'm not sure I can identify a "favorite one"!
FVD

This one just does it for me all the time!!!

Major T. J. "King" Kong from Dr. Strangelove:

"Well, boys, I reckon this is it - nuclear combat toe to toe with the Roosskies. Now look, boys, I ain't much of a hand at makin' speeches, but I got a pretty fair idea that something doggone important is goin' on back there. And I got a fair idea the kinda personal emotions that some of you fellas may be thinkin'. Heck, I reckon you wouldn't even be human bein's if you didn't have some pretty strong personal feelin's about nuclear combat. I want you to remember one thing, the folks back home is a-countin' on you and by golly, we ain't about to let 'em down. I tell you something else, if this thing turns out to be half as important as I figure it just might be, I'd say that you're all in line for some important promotions and personal citations when this thing's over with. That goes for ever' last one of you regardless of your race, color or your creed. Now let's get this thing on the hump - we got some flyin' to do."

Or how about this one:

Survival kit contents check. In them you'll find: one forty-five caliber automatic; two boxes of ammunition; four days' concentrated emergency rations; one drug issue containing antibiotics, morphine, vitamin pills, pep pills, sleeping pills, tranquilizer pills; one miniature combination Russian phrase book and Bible; one hundred dollars in rubles; one hundred dollars in gold; nine packs of chewing gum; one issue of prophylactics; three lipsticks; three pair of nylon stockings. Shoot, a fella' could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff.

But to me the most unforgetable scene that to this day I'm unable to shake off my mind is when Maj. 'King' Kong rides the "Hey There" nuke bomb all the way down the target howling like a rodeo cowboy!

[Steve1971]

My fav Aviation Hollywood film? 12 O' Clock High starring Gregory Peck. That show about what the men went through flying the Queen of the skies, the B-17, over Europe is a classic.

[admin]

Has anyone seen X-15? I'd never heard of it before. I ran across this in a recent movie posters search (another hobby of mine).

[STARMAN 352ND]

They just made this one in DVD...From the old 1961 movie X-15 is not so great....It could of been a little better story line IMHO.MGM could of done a little more to it i'm sure.
The actors i thought were ok in the movie.
Stars Charles Bronson as a member of a team of Air Force pilots preparing to test the X-15 rocket plane that would take its occupant to the edge of space.
The only reason i have this movie is because i like Bronson.Even the NASA footage wasn't all that great either.
JP

[flyXwire]

I also have the DVD - viewed it once and sold it in a garage-sale.

[jtmonty46]

It's hard to limit to one but, my favorite scene is in "A Guy Named Joe" starring Spencer Tracy. Tracy has just made a harrowing landing, been chewed out by the Colonel (James Gleason) and is walking by the perimeter fence when some English children (who idolize him) call him over and start asking questions that, eventually, lead to the question about what it's like to fly.

Tracy's short monologue always brings a lump to my throat.

[Rush104]

The Blue Max
30 Seconds Over Tokyo
12 O'Clock High
The Bridges at Toko Ri
The Right Stuff
Fail-Safe
Dr. Strangelove
The Great Santini
The Starfighters (I know that it was shown on an episode of MST3K- it had a thin plot and bad acting [especially by future Congressman "B-1 Bob" Dornan]- but it had some great footage of 479th TFW F-104s)
No Highway in the Sky
Fate is the Hunter
The Arrow
The Lost Missile (some good footage of early Cold-War era jet fighters)

[Merritec]

For me it has to be:
Battle of Britian
or
Memphis Belle

For Modern, I know it is very fake, but I love the Jet scenes in Air Force one, when they are defending Air Force one from the Mig's.(?) Jets really arn't my thing.

[Cavtanker]

For me, it would have to be Blackhawk Down and We Were Soldiers. Great helicopter action!