Whats your favourite line out of an aviation film?
Just been watching "Pearl Harbour" (dreadful film) when one boy pilot played by some actor I've never heard of says to the other boy pilot played by another actor I've never heard of, "I think World War 2 just started" (7 Dec 41)
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"Battle of Britain" is one of my all time favorites.
I recall a line where an RAF officer, his airfeild under attack gives an order to "Scuttle the wounded ducks", at which point non-flying Hurricaines are splashed with fuel and set alight.
Another really good line is from Flying magazine, from an issue dedicated to the fiftieth aniversary of the Battle of Britain.
A German officer is quoted as saying "The Hurricaine was a good airplane-to shoot down".
I recall a line where an RAF officer, his airfeild under attack gives an order to "Scuttle the wounded ducks", at which point non-flying Hurricaines are splashed with fuel and set alight.
Another really good line is from Flying magazine, from an issue dedicated to the fiftieth aniversary of the Battle of Britain.
A German officer is quoted as saying "The Hurricaine was a good airplane-to shoot down".
From "Out Of Africa"
Denys Finch-Hatton (aka Redford) lands in his Gypsy Moth and yells for Karen Blixen (Meryl Streep) to climb in..
She asks "When did you learn to fly..?"
DF-H: "Yesterday..."
She asks "When did you learn to fly..?"
DF-H: "Yesterday..."
From 'The Battle of Britain'
I think it's something like this....
Sqn Ldr 'Skipper' to Snowdrop with Luftwaffe airmen on heavily bombed airfield - Where are you taking those vultures?
Snowdrop - Officers to the mess, NCO's to the guardroom sir.
Skipper - Well they made this bloody mess, get them to clear it up!
Snowdrop - But what about the officers sir?
Skipper - Give them a bloody shovel!
In case you didn't know, the character of 'Skipper' was based on 'Sailor' Malan.
Sqn Ldr 'Skipper' to Snowdrop with Luftwaffe airmen on heavily bombed airfield - Where are you taking those vultures?
Snowdrop - Officers to the mess, NCO's to the guardroom sir.
Skipper - Well they made this bloody mess, get them to clear it up!
Snowdrop - But what about the officers sir?
Skipper - Give them a bloody shovel!
In case you didn't know, the character of 'Skipper' was based on 'Sailor' Malan.
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From Airport 1970....the scene as Patroni gets the stranded 707 out of the rut:
Observer: "The instruction book said that was impossible."
Patroni: "That's one nice thing about the 707. It can do everything BUT read"
They don't make them like that any more!
Observer: "The instruction book said that was impossible."
Patroni: "That's one nice thing about the 707. It can do everything BUT read"
They don't make them like that any more!
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I suppose its strictly off thread as the key sequence of this introductory sequence is wordless.......an 8th AAF officer revisits his old base after buying the one time squadron mascot in a London antique shop....
YouTube - Twelve O'Clock High (Opening)
YouTube - Twelve O'Clock High (Opening)
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Also Airport. 707 Capt to Patroni after bogging down his aircraft. Something like 'you can't talk to me like that, I've got more that 1,000,000 miles in the air!!!. ' Patroni's reply 'yes, and three feet in the ground!!'
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From "People like us - airline pilots".
While explaining the glass cockpit to the reporter:
"what we've got here, for instance is the artificial horizon.
See the little aircraft there?
If I press this button on the control column I can shoot it down".
Reporter talking to cc:
"What would you think is the most difficult part of the job that you do?"
"Well it's a bit like being on the stage"
"You mean with all the makeup....?
While explaining the glass cockpit to the reporter:
"what we've got here, for instance is the artificial horizon.
See the little aircraft there?
If I press this button on the control column I can shoot it down".
Reporter talking to cc:
"What would you think is the most difficult part of the job that you do?"
"Well it's a bit like being on the stage"
"You mean with all the makeup....?
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" I've got the best seat in the house ! " from a passenger casually mentioning the tear in the floor/s right by his feet after a missile attack ( heat seeking missile bravely put off course by Concorde co-pilot OPENING THE WINDOW, leaning out & firing a Verey gun - and this was supposed to be serious, no wonder they made ' Airplane '!
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Anything and everything from The Magnificent Men is wonderful.
Not strictly an aviation film but from "Into the Storm", about the Sir Winston Churchill war years.
"Bomber" Harris arrives for a meeting with Churchill in his magnificent
4 1/2 litre Lagonda tourer. Asked how the drive was he says that he got stopped for speeding and the constable told him he might have killed someone.
Harris replied...
" Young man, I kill thousands of people every night ".
Not strictly an aviation film but from "Into the Storm", about the Sir Winston Churchill war years.
"Bomber" Harris arrives for a meeting with Churchill in his magnificent
4 1/2 litre Lagonda tourer. Asked how the drive was he says that he got stopped for speeding and the constable told him he might have killed someone.
Harris replied...
" Young man, I kill thousands of people every night ".