Okay, this one is simple. Any movie, TV or other media in which the main focus is on aircraft and the people who fly them. It can be commercial, military or private flying; fiction, historical drama or documentary . No sci-fi or fantasy. I'll accept fictional aircraft if they're close enough to RL technology. I'll open with my own entry: Jimmy Stewart in The Spirit of St. Louis (1957). EDIT: Oh, and the usual board avatar rules apply, of course.
Although the movie is mainly about the Project Mercury astronauts, a good portion of it covers Chuck Yeager breaking the sound barrier in the Bell X-1, so I'll allow it in the interest of inclusiveness. (At any rate, all seven of the original astronauts were military test pilots -- and way overqualified for the job.) Yep, I'd say Airwolf was borderline SF. There ain't no supersonic helicopters! @ Kai "the spy": Around the World in 80 Days is fine with me. I didn't say it had to be heavier-than-air aviation.
Don't think I can accept that one. It's a great film but it's about a space mission, not flying per se. (Of course, if you want to split hairs, you could say Kai's entry isn't principally about ballooning. But I already gave it a pass, so . . . ) Let's try and keep these aircraft-related, shall we?
There are still plenty of possible entries, folks! Some suggestions: Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines The Hindenburg The Tuskegee Airmen Flight of the Phoenix (a survival drama, but the characters do spend most of the movie building a plane). Anyone here old enough to remember Sky King? How about Whirlybirds? Don't forget Snakes on a Plane!
Whirlybirds I definitely remember. It used to alternate with Champion The Wonder Horse on TV during the school holidays, well into the 1980s!