A moment early in 'Tora! Tora! Tora!':
Woman instructor is teaching teenage student, early morning off Pearl Harbour. She slowly realises they are being surrounded by the Japanese strike force:
'All right, Johnny, I have control,' and steep dive out of there.

A single word from "Dambusters".

The codeword to inform of the successful breach of the Moehne dam.

My obligatory Airplane one:

Ted - Elaine, thanks to me, 10 good men didn't return from that mission...

Elaine - actually it's 11, llt commander Zip died this morning.



And, from Heli in F.M.Jacket... IIRC

Modine's character, shouted to Animal on door gun as flying over paddy fields spraying bursts of fire - 'Hey, how can you shoot women and children??'

Animal - 'Easy, just don't lead as much'

Ballymoss. Is this the bloke? Had him and Ms Diaz down the back on Friday. Cabincrew were a bit shy and wouldn't ask for a piccy until the end. Mr Cruise came to the pointy end and had a chat with us about aircraft. It appears he has bought a P51D!! Quite a pleasant chap to chat with.

During the flight out of Salzburg we were asked to expedite our climb (Prompting the call of "He's goin' ballistic, Mav!") and I managed to get in "I feel the need, the need for speed-brake".

http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j2...merondiaz1.jpg

He has had a P.51 for some time now, and has soloed it. Hate to think what his Life Insurance people said!!!

In the 1955 film "Out Of The Clouds" James Robertson Justice is Captain of a Boeing Stratocruiser about to depart London Heathrow.

A keen dispatcher drives out to ascertain why the flight has not departed. Justice launches into him with a blistering dressing down along the lines of:

"Young man this aircraft will not lift one inch off the ground until I and my crew are entirely satisfied with it."

This clip was shown on my pre-command course. It led to interesting discussions on the Captain's authority and tone. Comments varied from "over the top" to "he let the dispatcher off lightly!"

blue up
 

He has gone up ten fold in my estimations! I'm sure Mr Cruise is a far nicer
chap than the characters he plays. Perhaps my previous derogatory comments (although he is rather vertically challenged:hmm:) should be ignored.

Rgds
The Moss:ok:

From "Piece of Cake", where a psychiatrist is discussing Moggy with the CO:

"I don't know about the enemy, but he certainly scares me."

From "Chickenhawk", a great book, which should be a movie:

"Chief, there is a rivet missing here. Of course, with this bullet hole next to it, it probably doesn't matter."

Ballymoss. Cuban heels! I checked as he departed the flightdeck.




Anyways, has anyone got a transcript of the Monty Python skit about the Battle of Britain? Not quite a film clip but excellent none the less.

we were inverted

Strategic Air Command when the Flight Engineer said....."starting number ten"......

Not a movie, but Capt. Eric Moody's alleged PA when all four engines flamed out on flight BA 009....

Source:-Wikipedia

Many decades ago I was a copilot on military turboprops, one of the captains used to utter the following quote when things got exciting:

''Let's gun them motors major, Lootenant Fergus is gonna buzz the field!''

He never said where it came from.

Any ideas?

mcdhu

The Spirit of St. Louis/ with Jimmy Stuart
He lands his beat-up Curtiss Jenny on the Army field to enlist. Some Sargent throws a fit about it. Then the Jenny blows a tire all by itself and a flying wire snaps. Says Stuart as he plays Charles Lindburg:

"Brittle, isn't she!"

I almost hit the floor laughing. You have to see it. On a historical note, Lindbergh really was told he'd have to pay to have his plane removed. He asked,"how much?" They said, "ten dollars." So he took a lighter and set it on fire. It burned to a small pile of OX-5 and some change. He repeated,"how much?" "Uh, five dollars."

Those were the days of wooden planes and iron men.

I'm with India Mike:

only because I used the line from The Right Stuff, to explain my stupidity in accepting employment in Africa to my then girlfriend, when Alan Sheppard was being pursued/recruited for the space program on-board an aircraft carrier...


"sounds dangerous....count me in."


"my name jose jimenez..."

"who's the best pilot you ever saw...yer lookin' at 'im."

Capt Vernon Demerest (Dean Martin) to a precocious passenger in "Airport" 1970

Joe Patroni (George Kennedy) to Boeing 707 N324F in "Airport" 1970

Wild Bill Kelso; "Fill her up! Ethel! "

"This is your captain speaking. I have good news and bad news. The
good news is that we will be landing immediately."
[everyone claps]
"The bad news is, we're crash landing."


From Madagascar 2

" Welcome to Earth ", Will Smith, Independance Day, After punching the alien who made him plough his plane into a canyon wall.

Another good line. Young boy on roof shouts, " P51, Cadillac of the skies "
Film, Empire of the sun.