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Old 1st October 2005, 16:35
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Re: My Air Combat movies list - additions are welcome

Ok it may not be a film, it is a series but for me- Piece of Cake has some of the best flight scenes containing WW2 planes ever. The Heinkel 111 is also real, as are the two Me 109's (although the Spanish version with British built engines produced after WW2) and the Spitfires (though historically inaccurate) range from Mk1 to Mk 1X versions. There is also a scene where a Spitfire is flown under a tiny bridge by one of the Hanna family and it is just superb, as well as scenes of 109's and Spitfires dogfighting over the white cliffs of Dover!

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Old 12th January 2006, 00:55
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The Blue Max

The Blue Max is one of my favorite war movies. The replica Pfalz D. IIIa is particularly convincing except the wooden fuselage which was never covered with the lozenge fabric. The two Fokker Dr. I triplanes would also never have had the lozenge fabric. I assume the monoplane at the last part of the movie was supposed to represent the Fokker D. VIII. I never read the book but looked at it in a book store and I seem to remember that Hermann Göring was a part of the plot.
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Old 26th January 2006, 18:25
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I don't think anyone's mentioned Appointment In London ( 1953 ). Script co-written by John Wooldridge ( ex Bomber Command ) and starring Dirk Bogarde as 'Tim Mason' - based on characteristics of Guy Gibson.

Some very good Lancaster footage but a creaky script, overshadowed by The Dam Busters.
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Old 31st January 2006, 00:40
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Re: My Air Combat movies list - additions are welcome

How about THE HUNTERS? It is not WWII but there's plenty of great flying scenes with Sabres and F84F posing as Korean MiG's.

I did see THE BRIDGES AT TOKO-RI but I think the book was better.

SPACE COWBOYS has a very funny aerobatic scene with Donald Sutherland.

The 007 series features an ASR Fortress in DR. NO and an Avro Vulcan in THUNDERBALL

THE GREAT ESCAPE contains a scene (my favourite!) in which Donald Pleasance (an actual WWII RAF pilot captured and tortured by the Germans) gets to a plane and flies it.

I read that HART'S WAR, JET PILOT (1950, with John Wayne), EMPIRE OF THE SUN also have great air scenes, but I haven't seen these movies myself. Has anybody of you?

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Old 16th April 2006, 19:13
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Yes, in the "Blue Max", at the end of the film, the Morane Saulnier 230 is supposed to be a Fokker D VIII. But the scene remembers a real one which took place on the 3rd July 1918, at Berlin Adlersdorf airfield. That day, Goering flies a prototype, a Zeppelin-Lindau (Dornier) D1. Reinhard, the Richthofen's successor, wants to try it just after, and... a wing breaks loose; Reinhard is killed ! Goering will replace him at the head of the JG 1.

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Re: My Air Combat movies list - additions are welcome

Les chevaliers du ciel

A 'gallic' Top Gun - lots of Mirage 2000 action - check out the clips on the link !

http://www.leschevaliers-lefilm.com/site/intro.html
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Old 18th May 2006, 18:00
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Hey, this week I've seen three great aviation movies: Empire of the Sun, The Flight of the Phoenix (with Hardy Kruger) and The Right Stuff, which you absolutely must get it! I bought the double DVD for a nothing. Boys, I love it! I'm surprised no one mentioned it in this discussion.
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Old 24th May 2006, 11:03
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I dont think "Empire of the sun" is an aviation movie. Aviation is nor the subject, nor the background. We can see only 2 types of aircrafts :
NA. T-6 "Zero" and a P-51D, and, if you have a good spotter eye, a french Nord 3400 (for a Kokusai Ki-76 ?) on the ground. We can add a large scale B-29 model. Aircraft scenes last only 2.17 minutes (1,4% of the movie lenght).
That's quite poor..

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Old 24th May 2006, 19:23
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Ah, OK. But the setting is great and the air scenes too.
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