TV/Media Avatar Contest: AVIATION!

[scotpens]

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.

 

[Saga]

 

[auntiehill]

^Very nice.


Top Gun

 

[Shanndee]

The Right Stuff

 

[Starkers]

I'll accept fictional aircraft if they're close enough to RL technology.

I guess Airwolf's out then

I'll go with Richard Todd as Guy Gibson in The Dambusters

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

One of the first movies I remember seeing in the theater.

 

[Kai "the spy"]

I hope this counts.

 

[scotpens]

The Right Stuff

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.)

I'll accept fictional aircraft if they're close enough to RL technology.

I guess Airwolf's out then

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.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Hans Von Hammer by Joe Kubert.

 

[scotpens]

Apollo 13

One of my all-time favorite movies.

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?

 

[auntiehill]

Red Tails or The Great Waldo Pepper would also be great entries.

 

[J.T.B.]

 

[JiNX-01]

New entry:

 

[Gecko of Gorn]

Col. Kilgore. Air Cavalry.

 

[Gov Kodos]

It was a tough choice between this or 'Dawn Patrol'.

 

[Lonemagpie]

David McCallum in Mosquito Squadron, with a Mosquito.

 

[Owain Taggart]

If I can use one I previously made, this is from a TV show called Ice Pilots.

 

[scotpens]

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!

 

[Lonemagpie]

Anyone here old enough to remember Sky King? How about Whirlybirds?

Whirlybirds I definitely remember. It used to alternate with Champion The Wonder Horse on TV during the school holidays, well into the 1980s!

 

[scotpens]

Last chance for entries. Poll goes up in ≈ 24 hours.