Whats your favourite line out of an aviation film?

[treadigraph]

Any more?

Ah, Brigitte!

What's the French for "give me the money?"

"You should know Courtney, she's your daughter." "But Sir, she's an innocent young girl!" "Was, Courtney, was..."

[flugholm]

Dr. Strangelove:

Major T. J. "King" Kong: Survival kit contents check. In them you'll find: one forty-five caliber automatic; two boxes of ammunition; four days' concentrated emergency rations; one drug issue containing antibiotics, morphine, vitamin pills, pep pills, sleeping pills, tranquilizer pills; one miniature combination Russian phrase book and Bible; one hundred dollars in rubles; one hundred dollars in gold; nine packs of chewing gum; one issue of prophylactics; three lipsticks; three pair of nylon stockings. Shoot, a fella' could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff.

[flugholm]

And from the UFA film "F.P. 1 antwortet nicht", ca. 1930:

Hans Albers: "Wir Flieger sind eine ganz eigene Nation: Unsere liebste Jahreszeit ist das Frühstück!"

[Dave Gittins]

I'm with Saab Dastard on "Mitchells do fly in IMC" .. the description of the aeroplane in question.

" A Gentlemans aeronatical conveyance .. for dropping bombs of course"

DGG

[TheGorrilla]

Hale and Pace - Yorkshire Airlines.

Narrator: "Off on yer holls? Not sure who to fly with? Why don't you aye op and away with Yorkshire Airlines!.... Our Air Doris's are second to none and will give you the warmest of welcomes...."

Doris: "Aye up, aye up, wipe thay bloody feet, aye up...."

Narrator: "and our flight crew our the very best..."

Hale: "This is captain Boycott speakin', durin' flight I'll be flyin' at what ever bloody height I like, for as long as I bloody like cos I'm captain, right!..."

[robin]

Pretty hairy eh, sir?
Piece of cake.

Always watch that bit with a lump in the throat.....

[Mechta]

'Iceman' - The Later Years

Capt Kazanski: A hell of a bird, I had her up to Mach 3 yesterday

FO: You were never going Mach 3 in a 727

Capt Kazanski: I was SHAVING with a Mach 3 yesterday. When you shave with a Mach 3, you've no time to think. If you think, you're dead...


Capt Kazanski: Bogey!!! Repeat Bogey!!! Coming up on our six, He's got tone!

FO: That's the 9:35 out of Tampa


If you haven't seen it:
ICEMAN - The Later Years from Nino - Video

[BEagle]

Battle of Britain

If you think we're going to gamble on Herr Hitler's guarantees, you're making a grave mistake. All those years in England seems to have left you none the wiser. We're not easily frightened. Also we know how hard it is for an army to cross the Channel. The last little Corporal who tried came a cropper. So don't threaten or dictate to us until you're marching up Whitehall... and even then we won't listen!

[john ball]

Aviation film choice comments/dialog

From the film 'Battle of Britain ' when the new Spitfire pilot forgets to put his undercarriage down, overshoots and then bounces on landing twice. When he walks in to the pilot hut the pilots sitting outside say '' you can teach monkeys to fly better than that'' also so many other classic lines in a very underated film in this day and age of computor generated pictures.

From the film ' Air america' when they are lost in low cloud flying the pilatus porter guy in the back says to the pilot ''we are VSF'' he looks back at him and requests explanation -- very seriously f****d !!

[Tankertrashnav]

Sorry, not a line but I love the scene of the aircraft flying over the sand dunes in The English Patient.

Agreed - always regretted going to watch that film as I regarded it as a waste of 2 hours of my life, but that at least was 30 seconds that wasn't wasted.

Still want my money back though

[squeaker]

"Always" again, when Richard Dreyfus runs out of fuel and is attempting to dead stick his A26 (I think) back to the runway..

"This is good, I was rusty on panic.."

[Fareastdriver]

EVERYTHING'S GOING TO BE OK.

Innumerable cockpit voice recorders.

[Barksdale Boy]

The Warlover

Steve McQueen and Love Interest walking through King's College Cambridge:

L.I. It must be wonderful to take off and see the dawn come up.

S.McQ. Dawns are for co-pilots.

[D120A]

On at least one Lightning squadron, the line from an aviation film most repeated (amidst much mirth) on walking out to fly was:

"Stick to me like glue!"

[Ballymoss]

TopGun

And if you screw up just this much, you'll be flying a cargo plane full of rubber dog **** out of Hong Kong

Something I've tried to avoid

Rgds
The Moss

ps I hated that film and have an equal dislike for that dwarf aswell.........

[Blacksheep]

Real Life. UH1 with tail rotor failure arrives without notice and does a high speed run onto the runway, sliding along in a shower of sparks.

Tower: Do you need assistance?
Pilot: Hell no! I ain't done crashing yet!

[NutherA2]

Another one from The War Lover

Shirley Anne Field to Steve McQueen:

"You can't make love, you're twisted".

[Bla Bla Bla]

Ballymoss,

That is a good line but I have to confess that flying a cargo plane full of rubber dog **** out of Hong Kong in this current market seems out of reach for me right now!

[LAS1997]

'You get me up to full throttle then wack me in reverse! You could damage my engine!'

A line from the 1970 movie 'Airport' when Dean Martin who played a Boeing 707 Captain of Trans Global Airlines (TGA) is trying to seduce Jacqueline Bisset who plays a very tasty Stewardess in her flat just before they go to the airport for their over night flight to Rome.

[mr fish]

from APOLLO 13,

jim lovell, "gentlemen, it's been a privilege flying with you".

a masterfully understated sign off which always brings a lump to my throat!!!