Warplanes in Movies

[Wingman81]

This thread shall become a listing of hollywood and all other noticeable TV Movies involving warplanes listing all warplane types appearing in the movie. I got the idea for this when i yesterday watched Top Gun after some 6-7 years only to find out that i totally forgot which planes were involved in the movie. So everytime you watch a War movie you may make a posting here and i add to the list. 

Les Chevaliers du Ciel
Involved:
- Dassault Mirage 2000(X?)

The Final Countdown
Involved:
- F-14 "Tomcat"
- F-8 Crusader
- A-7 Corsair II
- Mitsubishi A6M Zero
Also involved: SH3 Sea King Helicopter, U.S.S. Nimitz & U.S.S. Kitty Hawk

Top Gun
Involved:
- F-14 "Tomcat"
- Northrop F-5 (as fictional MiG-28)
- A-4 Skyhawk

War of the Worlds, The (1953)
Involved:
- Northorp YB-49

[No.1]

Ha- very interesting. I have seen somewhere in magazine one shop which sell only aviation movies and I was wonder how many of this movies are made and even series! If I am not wrong long time ago was some captain Hawk 

[Nico Braas]

And don't forget the Convair XF-92A prototype disguised as a "MIG-23" in the fifties!
I believe that in the movie 'The Rights Stuff' a Hawker Hunter was very convincingly converted into a Douglas D-558-2 Skyrocket!
Also the Northop XB-49 flying wing appeared in a movie: 'The War of the Worlds' (the first one with Orson Wells!).
It was the plane dropping an 'atomic bomb' on the alien spaceship (whithout results!).
Another nice example is a Swiss registered Focke Wulf FW-44 Stieglitz that appeared in one of the 'Tirolean porno movies' of the early seventies.
And in 'Raiders of the Lost Arc' with Harrison Ford we have even seen a big (fictive) Horten flying wing freightplane of the Luftwaffe taxiing on the ground.
The most impressive movie still remains 'The Battle of Britain' with its many wooden Spitfires and Hurricanes exploding on the ground and the impressive in-flight shorts with the many Hispano Buchons and CASA 111's from the Spanish air force!

[mfg495]

Then there was Ice Station Zebra, in one shot it was said that Russian Migs were about to attack, but they showed English Electric Ligthnings.
Dambusters - Lancasters
633 Sqn - Mosquitos
Mosquito Squadron
Catch 22 - B25

[No.1]

And what about "Russians is coming" , maybe I miss correct name of movie. This is about Soviet submarine stuck at the coast in North America and in movie is appeared F-101 

[mfg495]

And what about "Russians is coming" , maybe I miss correct name of movie. This is about Soviet submarine stuck at the coast in North America and in movie is appeared F-101 

The Russians are Comming, - When a Soviet submarine captain comes up for a look at America (off the coast of a small island in Massachusetts) he runs aground. He sends his two English speaking crewmen to procure a boat with enough power to pull them off. The 2 English speakers, along with 7 other Russian sailors, don't exactly blend in and the town is convinced that they are being invaded.

[No.1]

"Emergency- everybody to get from street" 

[Wingman81]

Also the Northop XB-49 flying wing appeared in a movie: 'The War of the Worlds' (the first one with Orson Wells!).
...
And in 'Raiders of the Lost Arc' with Harrison Ford we have even seen a big (fictive) Horten flying wing freightplane of the Luftwaffe taxiing on the ground.

I guess you mean H.G.Wells. Orson Welles does not play in this movie 

For the Raiders of the Lost Ark i will have to check the DVD...i cannot remember the scene. But ive read through various Movie forums and found a statement that it could also have been more like the Arado E.555
In this context i found this interesting link:

http://www.luft46.com/arado/are555s.html
http://paul.whizx.co.nz/interior/arado.html

[Wingman81]

Ive checked the scene. It looked indeed a bit like an Arado but with propellers instead of jet engine. What it really was will stay the secret of Steven Spielberg 

[safo_test]

whoosh !

this is a wide task !

with some friends, we have list more a hundred movies dedicated to airplanes or airforces ! (unfortunatly, I've lost the list)

But from my memory, here are some of them :

before 1914 :
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965)
Vickers 22/ "Blériot", Avro Triplane, Bristol Boxkite, Eardley Billings, Demoiselle

WWI :
Lafayette escadrille (1958)
a US guy fall in love with a french girl and enlisted in the air force ; the story is their love affair, but most of the movie is on hte air or on the school/avaition camp.

1920-1939 :
* The great Waldo Pepper (1975)
1926 : old fighters made aerobatics and movies to earn their money. But the FAA didn't like it. The last issue is to play in a movie in which Waldo meets again his great opponent : the german ace Ernst Kessler.
Curtiss JN-4D Jenny , de Havilland Tiger Moth, D.H.C. 1 Chipmunk (heavily modified), Bücker Jungmann, Morse S4-B, Sopwith Camel and Fokker Dr.I [Bristol Fighter/XB-1A is seen during a movie by Waldo]
* test pilot (1938)
Jim Lane, test pilot, falls in love of Ann; this makes his boss hangry... several parts display seversky P-35

WW2 :
* air force (1945)
07/12/1941 : the crew of B-17 "mary ann" hear the attack of pearl harbour when they're heading there...
* 30 Seconds over Tokyo (1944)
mostly taken from the B-25 but covers the training and after the mission, the escape through China.
* Memphis Belle (194?)
the real one, already in color
* Memphis belle (1991)
mission to Hamburg
* tora ! tora ! tora ! (1970)
Pearl Harbor
IJN : 12 T-6 ("Zero"), 9 BT-13 ("Nakajima Kate"), 9 T-6 and BT-13 displaying "Aichi Vals"
USAAF :
2 Kittyhawk Mk 1 (Ex RCAF), 1x P-40N , several P-51 (!?!?), one PT-17 Stearman, several SNJ (T6) and 5 B-17, one catalina
PLUS 27 replica (p-40, ...)

19454-end of Korea war :
* Bridges at Toko-Ri (1954)
F9F-2 Panther of VF-191 and 192, AD-4 Skyraider of VA-195. Sikorsky H03S-1 (SAR S-51)... and a nice yellow three wheels Jeep !
* The Sound Barrier (1952)
De Havilland Comet and Vampire, Vickers-Supermarine Attacker et Swift

Vietnam era :
* sous le signe du taureau (France - 1969)
Albert Raynal must find the money to save his company as its last product the SR01 missile has failed during test.
A short by rare scene showing during 1mn30 SNASE Vautour II of EC 2/30 'Normandie Niemen' taking off
* Air America (1991)
4 C-123K Provider (602 Sqn based at Bangkok), 8 UH-1B/H, 4 Fairchild AU-23A Pacemaker (Turbo-Porter, 202 Sqn), 2 C-47 , 1 Sikorsky S.58T, 1 C-130H, 2 O-1 Bird Dog. One Bell 47 for the trafic control over US motorways.

1980 and later :
* the rocketeer (1991)
movie from the comic of the 70's ; action time : the mid 30's in the middle of air races (Gee Bee racer). the hero must fight nazis spies and doing that cross the activity of Howard Hughes (the 1/10 spruce goose model) ; Zeppelin; la cierva autogiro... and the rocket !
* Flatliners (1991)
some student in medecine try to stop their heart to reach a new frontier : the death ... and hopes to come back !
during their 'travel', we can see several sequences with a SR-71... (boring movie but short and numerous shot of the blackbird !)

Reading some Aerofax about soviet planes, I've learn that several of them play for some (unknown to me) movies : for example, a Tu-16 acting SAR and releasing its boat....

[mfg495]

Great list and some excellent films listed 

[Wingman81]

Great listing...thanks for your effort. I will have it like this....everytime i will stumble across a movie on tv or whereever i will add it to the list here...otherwise it would be too time consuming Maybe later i could make a webpage for this. I had once a project with a friend of mine where we listed all movies we ever watched online with a summary and voting from 1-10....unfortunately we had to stop for time reasons. ( http://filmliste.sladdajaddax.de/ )

[safo_test]

(...)unfortunately we had to stop for time reasons.

yes!
this little play could be really time consumming !

thanks for your support !
still no news of my list 

but yesterday, I discover a "new"  movie very surprising !

"Più forte, ragazzi !" (Italia 1972)
I dislike Terence Hill & Bud Spencer (it's my choice; you're free to have yours !) but this movie show several flight scene of a colombian Catalina.
With the transport strikes now in France, I was unable to wait the end because it was past midnight... and I went to my work with my bicycle (22 km no the death but a little 'sport' for me  )
others planes too; but lots of shots of the actors face through the windscreen => a small eyeblick of the upper cockpit ...

Another three :

* Aces High (1976) [do not confuse with the same title given to a movie of 1955 ! (The McConnell story)]
with Malcom Mc Dowell who plays a commander hardly facing the numerous kill among his men. ("bloody april" ... in october 1917)
lots of dogfights (but Albatros are Stampe !)

* BlackSunday - 140 mn (1977)
a killer want to fire spectators during a super bowl with the help of a guy who takes the controls of a blimp !
rare type of movie with nearly 15 mn of landing / T.Off of the blimp and helos of the L.A. police

* The Hunters (1958)
F-86 over Korea but too a F-100 in a incredible crash ;  H-19 (full orange , SAR) ; C-54 & C-119 ; the Migs are played by some ANG F-84 F !

* Bombardier B-52 (1957)
F-86 , S-55, B-?? 

Most of them have been broadcast by TCM in the first half of 2007

P.S.
the voting of such movies is an hard task if a single note is used :
* did this gives the fact that the subject is more or less linked to aviation ?
* Is the note linked to the time proportion of aircraft seen ?
* or is it the quality of the pictures and/or aircraft used (including or not the markings ?)
* the quality of the actors / story ?
I think each movie needs 2 or 3 or 4 notes on several criteria

[Wingman81]

We dont need to give notes. Just added one of my favorite movies to the list: "The Final Countdown" 

[HasBiba]

"Les Chevaliers du Ciel" - "Sky Knights"

very good movie, I recommend for everyone





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