Rangerj,
I am stretching my (thin) memory back a long ways, but I seem to remember that Sky King’s plane had twin rudders, the Cessna Bobcat was single tail, wasn’t it? I could be wrong, as I say, it’s been a loooong time since I saw the show… the Beech 18 just sticks in memory…
Brian [%-)]
one of the most obvious ones no one’s mentioned. F-14’s from The Final Countdown. I first saw this plane in a short movie mock dogfighting an F-4 in the “ready room” in the Air and Space Museum. Countdown sealed my interest in this plane.
If spacecraft are allowed, the eagle from Space 1999. It just seems so close to being real.
I’ll also cast votes for Firefox and Airwolf. There has never been a decent kit of a Bell 222 to my knowledge. Doesn’t look as cool with skids though.
Is everyone forgetting Fransisco Scaramanga’s gold car/plane from James Bond: Man with the Golden Gun? that gets my vote.
The an-124 ruslan from James Bond Die another Day! The huge cargo plane Explodes!!! That Was Awsome!!
The bell airbelt, jetpack? from 007 may not be an aircraft but is still awsome anyways!!!
I already submited my votes, but for a good helo chase watch Outbreak. Hueys chasing an MD-500.
The napalm strike mentioned early, I think, is from Heaven and Earth but I’m not sure.
Finally I also liked the Mig-28’s (F-5’s) from Top-Gun.
upnorth, if I’m not mistaken, that was from “Platoon”, in the final battle scene, the C/O calls in an airstrike on the American positions, they were being overrun.
I’ve seen mentions of “Where Eagles Dare”… anyone remember the General’s “new toy” ? It was a Bell 47G. Great movie!
The best movie aircraft.
The B17’s from Twelve O’ High.
F-86’s from The Hunters a Korean War movie.
Lancasters from The Dam Busters. [2c]
The napalm drop sequence involving four F-5s over Vietman was from Apocalypse Now.
Great selections here, especially Chitty Chitty Bang Bang!
Not very original, but made me love B-25 Mitchells: Catch-22 (drove down the runway in Mexico where they filmed this, at the time most of the building were still standing) and the movie based on the downed B-24 Lady-Be-Good, “Sole Survivor”, which starred Richard Basehart and a crashed B-25. I remember looking at that plane when it was on display (in its wrecked configuration) at Cars-of-Stars/Planes-of-Fame in Buena Park when I was a kid. Made me want to build (too many) B-25s.
All time favorite movie flying machine? Millennium Falcon.
P-51 “Angels on our Backs” from Saving Private Ryan…thats good advertising!
Nah, Thunderbird 2!
That wonderful design and such glorious music as it’s launched…
Fictional: The Bird from Stealth
Real: Probably the Super Bug in Behind Enemy Lines
“Skyking” no matter what it was.
The “Invader” spaceship, of course!
The chopper in “Rip Tide” S-55 maybe?
Brian,
Your memory is a s good as mine! It has been about 45 years+ since I have seen any of the Sky king episodes. I do distinctly remember the Bobcat, the Piper (Navahoe?), and the Cessna 310. I also remember the niece Penny. Beyond that the rest is a blur.
Did’nt the Bob Cummings show use a flying car? Anybody remember the flying car?
I also enjoyed the Corsairs on Baa Baa Blacksheep. I think the “Zeros” were converted T-6s. Have the F-18s of “Pensacola Wings of Gold” been mentioned. The Bell helocopters of MASH are also neat. That was the beginnings of “Medi-vac”, or as it would later be called “Dust-off”. To Major Charles L. Kelly, a debt of gratitude owed by many, including me.
Badbird got it right. That was the scene just prior to the air cavalry Colonel saying “I love the smell of napalm in the morning…” It was actually done by having a large diameter PVC pipe over 100 feet long in a clearing in the jungle filled with napthelene I believe, plus other explosive devices. At the time, and for quite a while afterwards, it was the largest movie pyrotechnic effects trick ever done.
I just thought of another one; how about the sequence in “Green Berets” when their firebase is overrun with VC, they call in an AC-47 “Spooky” gunship to wipe out the bad guys. Later on, they kidnap a NVA officer and and he gets snatched off the ground by one of those planes (can’t remember what it was) with the big fork on the nose. Looked like a heck of a ride.
I don’t think anyone mentioned the C-119 from ‘Flight of the Phoenix’. The original with Jimmy Stewart not the horrible remake.
The only problem I have with the P-51s in Saving Private Ryan is that they should have been Jugs (P-47s)
just wonderin a lil mildly [#offtopic is there any kits for the AC-47 spooky ( “PUFF the MAGIC DRAGON” ) as it is refered to in The Green Berets. and if youre a HUEY lover the ending charge of the 7th air cav in We Were Soldiers was awesome[8-]
I know there used to be, cause I built one back in my “yoot.”