LetLetLet ~ Warplanes
Let Let Let - Warplanes => Combat Warplanes => Topic started by: Wingman81 on October 11, 2007, 07:16:43 PM
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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 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0421974/)
Involved:
- Dassault Mirage 2000(X?) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dassault_Mirage_2000)
The Final Countdown (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080736/)
Involved:
- F-14 "Tomcat" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-14)
- F-8 Crusader (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-8_Crusader)
- A-7 Corsair II (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vought_A-7)
- Mitsubishi A6M Zero (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsubishi_Zero)
Also involved: SH3 Sea King Helicopter, U.S.S. Nimitz & U.S.S. Kitty Hawk
Top Gun (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092099)
Involved:
- F-14 "Tomcat" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-14)
- Northrop F-5 (as fictional MiG-28) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_F-5)
- A-4 Skyhawk (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-4_Skyhawk)
War of the Worlds, The (1953) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046534/)
Involved:
- Northorp YB-49 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_YB-49)
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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 :-think
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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!
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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
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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 :-think
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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 :-think
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.
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"Emergency- everybody to get from street" :-razz :-joke
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Also the Northop XB-49 flying wing appeared in a movie: 'The War of the Worlds' (the first one with Orson Wells!).
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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
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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 :-cool
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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....
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Great list and some excellent films listed :-ok
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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/ (http://filmliste.sladdajaddax.de/) )
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(...)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 :-wise )
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-?? :-think
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
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We dont need to give notes. Just added one of my favorite movies to the list: "The Final Countdown" :-cool
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"Les Chevaliers du Ciel" - "Sky Knights"
very good movie, I recommend for everyone
(http://shrani.si/f/3r/7u/2njIl83Z/1.jpg)
(http://shrani.si/f/44/QQ/nbncwtZ/a368851.jpg)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry5WrAqY3Ec&mode=related&search=Military%20Flying%20Air%20Force%20Jets
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRQX439wMBU&mode=related&search=Military%20Flying%20Air%20Force%20Jets :-obey
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Very nice HasBiba! :-ok Ive seen many times the Mirage 2000-5F. They are hoovering over the farm of my uncle in low-altitude at least 2 times a day. He lives in Burgundy where they operate from Dijon-Longvic air base and fly to training in Jura mountains area :)
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Top Gun, great in its time, excellent air-to-air shots of the F14, in this clip they have mixed the film along with some flight sim footage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPKk8jyhKEI
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@Wingman81...... :-ok :-ok
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Found this picture by chance in a german wikipedia article. Thought it would best fit in this thread here :)
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:-clap :-ok
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Did anyboy see "The Blue Max". They had a collection of homemades, Tiger Moths and a French monoplane. I thought it was a good flick.
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Did anyboy see "The Blue Max". They had a collection of homemades, Tiger Moths and a French monoplane. I thought it was a good flick.
Oh yes. I ve seen it at least 30 times this year :) Maybe thats why i forgot to add it *g*
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There were two versions of "Dawn Patrol" with Errol Flynn. I think the Brit planes were actually French and the Germans were a Pfalz DXII and a variety of American biplanes tarted up to look like Jerries. Also Howar hughes made "Hells Angels". If I remember correctly they had a Zpp (model) in that one.
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How have we forget "flight of the intruder" ????
Movie of 1991 so the Vietnamese are real Mig 17 !
But lots of sequences with A-1 "Sandy" Skyraiders and a HH-3 "Jolly Green Giant" ; shorter apearence of A-7 Corsair, C-2 Greyhound and the F-4 Phantom II
and from the laughing side,
Hot shots !
Farey Gnat in all its splendor !
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Hot shot is great parody and one of my favorite movie :-jump
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I asked this question on another forum and got no reply, maybe you guys can help. There is a movie called "Target" with Gene Hackman. At the end of the movie, they are in a hanger in Eastern Europe. There are fuselages and parts all over the place. The aircraft are radials and almost look like He-270's. Does anyone know what they are?
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(...) "Target"
(...) they are in a hanger in Eastern Europe. There are fuselages and parts all over the place. The aircraft are radials and almost look like He-270's. Does anyone know what they are?
don't know the movie...
don't find any picture minus the Hackman/Dilon duo
but if you can post a picture taken on your TV screen, this could be a interesting quizz...
Well
I've found again my list : more 200 movies but only nearly 50 really AVIATION and nothing else; one hundred or so with lots of sequences ; others are with some sight of aircraft lesser seen...
I need some time to update and complete it as lots of them are french title perhaps unknown to most of you...
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I dont know but somehow i was remind of a movie i had just recently seen some month ago. It was about the cold war between russia and usa. And i think it was in Black/white. One part played in Alaska where they had some bombers. The story was about that they had implemented a new computer system and because of a malfunction a wing of US bombers was orderd to bomb Soviet Union. The movie was very good from the suspense. In the end the two presidents made phone calls and tried to shot down the US Bombers but one of four came through the russian defense. If i only could remember the title ......
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"Failsafe" ?
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Not a movie but very good advertisement with Lancaster, Hurricane...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udMe7CZI2eo
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"Failsafe" ?
Yes. Excellent guess verner!!! I forgot to check my imdb voting history and found it also there.
Cast with Walter Matthau as the Professor and Henry Fonda as the President.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058083/
Interesting i find also this here listed under Trivia for the movie:
The view of the satellite zooming into a closer shot is actually film taken from a camera mounted on a captured German V2 rocket launched from White Sands, New Mexico. The film is run backwards to show the illusion of zooming closer to the ground.
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"Failsafe" ?
I think they used the B-58 Hustler in this one.
(http://www.militaryimages.net/ims/pic/6SYYE9/68.jpg)
(http://www.militaryimages.net/ims/pic/6SYYE9/65.jpg)
(http://www.militaryimages.net/ims/pic/6SYYE9/66.jpg)
(http://www.militaryimages.net/ims/pic/6SYYE9/67.jpg)
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@ mfg :-ok :-obey
Just earned a 3 Euro Amazon coupon. I will buy next week and report :-green
Unfortunately i cant find a DVD version below 10 euro. Seems to be appeared only last year on DVD.
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I dont know but somehow i was remind of a movie i had just recently seen some month ago. It was about the cold war between russia and usa. And i think it was in Black/white. One part played in Alaska where they had some bombers. The story was about that they had implemented a new computer system and because of a malfunction a wing of US bombers was orderd to bomb Soviet Union. The movie was very good from the suspense. In the end the two presidents made phone calls and tried to shot down the US Bombers but one of four came through the russian defense. If i only could remember the title ......
I think that it was the extraordinary "Doctor Folamour" (doctor strangelove in english)by Stanley Kubrick-Was a tragi-comedy...
very good film !! a vey funny scene with peter Sellers(who played two roles in the fim) is an anthology!!
Look at the final scene (in deutch ..)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iORILr8ObtI
Cordialement
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Actually, Dr. Strangelove(or how I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb) was the English Title and Mr. Sellers played three parts in the film. It was a spoof on "Failsafe" :-salut
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Since we talk about my favourite director Stanley. I found a scene in " Paths of Glory (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050825/) where they sit in a trench and you can see a wreckage of a German airplane. Rudder shape is rounded. I have to buy this movie also on DVD, i have seen it before but i didnt know it was from Stanley :)) I consider this early B/W movie of Kubrick to be one of the best WWI movies.
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In 1938 in Germany was made movie about Red baron and this is the last time that Dr.I was running its engine. I think the very last was destroyed during the bombing in 1944.
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In 1938 in Germany was made movie about Red baron and this is the last time that Dr.I was running its engine. I think the very last was destroyed during the bombing in 1944.
I know which movie you mean. It was discussed in an aerodrome thread some month ago but i cannot remember the titel atm.
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(http://www.bostream.nu/bowe/HOTET_poster.jpg)
A swedish action tv movie i watched last week. It can be seen in more than one flying and ground scenes
Saab JAS 39 Gripen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saab_JAS_39_Gripen)
such a nice airplane
more photos in a link N°1 had posted some days ago:
http://aircraftwalkaround.hobbyvista.com/gripen/gripen.htm
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And how look like the Vikings in action :-razz
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This is a great topic... :-ok
I think these were not mentioned...
The Right Stuff http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086197/
Flying Tigers http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034742/
Twelve O'Clock High http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041996/
The Tuskegee Airmen http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114745/
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVzf02WcHZc
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Thats funny :-ok
Is this a short movie for cinema ?
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Look like but I don't know which one :)
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Looks like something from the series the Twilight Zone :-think
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Some new movies i came across in the last weeks:
The Marksman (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0457090/)
What a dumb movie but Wesley Snipes saves a little and a short display of a F-14
besides a fictional Carrier USS Oakla and wrong military uniform markings.
And i noticed that in National Treasure (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0368891) they walk around on a Carrier museum with many different planes on deck. Is there such a museum in Washington or New York area?
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Found some of my fav movie "The Final Countdown", typical 80s propaganda but i like it :-cool
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVLQBDULPDI
-Original Trailer-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJFBuJu97kw
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This is it- relax in chair and watch movies :-ok :-clap :-clap
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before 1914 :
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965)
Vickers 22/ "Blériot", Avro Triplane, Bristol Boxkite, Eardley Billings, Demoiselle
Where to find this movie?
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before 1914 :
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965)
Vickers 22/ "Blériot", Avro Triplane, Bristol Boxkite, Eardley Billings, Demoiselle
Where to find this movie?
I guess its this:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059797/
havent seen this movie myself....or maybe as a kid now that i see the German title is "Die Tollkühnen Männer in Ihren fliegenden Kisten" :)
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Thanks Wingman81 :-ok :-wave
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Yo wait- we have forget some local like the "Neretva", "Sutjeska", "Vrhovi Zelengore"... epic communist movies :-green
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:)
How about Partizanska Eskadrila :)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078832/ (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078832/)
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Planes used in this movie:Soko 522,Kraguj,Utva-66...
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Empire of the Sun (1987) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_of_the_Sun_(film))
One of my favourite movies. Thanks to someone in my soccer forum for bringing this up. I didnt know the title of this movie for years and it wouldnt appear on tv for me to know it :-cool
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In honor of movie star Audrey Hepburn, KLM has named a MD 11 machine after her :-ok
http://www.airfleets.net/ficheapp/plane-md11-48559.htm
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Very interesting info- I did not know for this :)
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One of the craziest movies I ever saw was in Dallas, Texas. "Fanny Hill Meets The Red Baron". Absolutely nuts.
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http://www.redbaron-themovie.com/