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Old 28th Apr 2000, 15:42
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Question Flying music?

I'm just putting together a CD for the car featuring music on the subject of flying. Any suggestions to go with these....?

Frank Sinatra - Fly me to the moon
Frank Sinatra - Come fly with me
Tom Petty - Learning to fly
Foo Fighters - Learn to fly
R. Kelly - I believe I can fly
Oasis - Supersonic
Oasis - Up in the sky
Grace - If I could fly
Lenny Kravitz - Fly away
 
Old 28th Apr 2000, 15:52
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Cast....You've got to fly

Joan Armatrading...Drop the pilot.

Wings...Jet (If you must)

Janet Jackson...Runway (It's actually Runaway but who cares)

I'll keep thinking.....

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Old 28th Apr 2000, 16:31
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Poco - Flying Solo (not that anyone's ever heard of Poco)

"Up where we belong" by whoever, if you really must.

I'm Mandy, fly me - 10cc

On top of the world - Carpenters

Snoopy versus the Red Baron - can't remember who

Danger zone - Kenny Loggins

When I was young I was no fool - The 618 Ensemble

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Old 28th Apr 2000, 17:12
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Alan Parsons Project - Eye in the Sky

Phil Collins - In the Air Tonight

(This was used to great effect as one of the backing tracks for the compilation video put together by the in-theatre journos in Bahrain during the Gulf War.)

Meat Loaf - Bat out of Hell
 
Old 28th Apr 2000, 17:30
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On the subject of 'In the air tonight'
The journos if British may have been making a double ironical point. This single amongst a list of others was banned from BBC radio playlists for the duration of the Gulf conflict due to its potentially disturbing subtext.

As for new songs for a compilation;
'Freebird' by Lynard Skynard.
'The Wind Beneath My Wings' choose your version.
 
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Old 28th Apr 2000, 22:12
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Pink Floyd - Learning To Fly. Dave Gilmour's pretty authoritative on the subject I believe.
 
Old 28th Apr 2000, 22:47
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How about David Bowie's Space Oddity? Most of the lyrics fit flying just as well as space travel.
 
Old 29th Apr 2000, 00:20
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Hagbard,
The video mentioned above was produced by the journos covering the conflict from Bahrain. They were living in very close proximity to those of us (Tornado /Jaguar / Bucaneer / Victor crews) based there at the time. Whilst the lyrics might not have been appropriate in a PC world, they were quite apt at the time! Moreover, the footage of Tornados taking off in full reheat at night, bomb releases and detonations, was awesome set to the right music!
 
Old 29th Apr 2000, 00:33
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The best one I heard was the Theme From Rawhide during boarding. Excellent.
 
Old 29th Apr 2000, 04:22
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"Rawhide" during pax loading...

Ride of the Valkyrie during T/O
 
Old 29th Apr 2000, 06:21
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ACDCs "Highway to Hell" played over the 737 PA during TO/climb. Lyrics certainley fit in well with me!
 
Old 29th Apr 2000, 06:29
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ACDC must be smokin' some good **** when they sing "I feel safe in New York City". Maybe they have TCAS in their guitars, or they just "shoot-shoot-shoot from the hip, because they have a stiff-stiff-stiff upper lip".-CY

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*deep inhale* I LOVE the smell of jet-a in the morning..
 
Old 29th Apr 2000, 16:00
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I've got a small collection of songs which feature recordings of ATC conversations (may I collect my Ms Grabber Special Prize For Sadness now, please?).

These are:

Learning To Fly, Pink Floyd (op. cit.)

The Wreck Of The Fairchild, Thomas Dolby (fake Spanish ATC.)

My Centurion, Gary Numan (not something to play over the PA to the pax, as it's all about engine failure in a Cessna! For your delight and delectation, here's an excerpt from the lyrics:

This machine/No sign of life/Only the whisper of air

She won't turn/She won't climb/She won't stop/She won't fly

I'm falling/I'm silent/I'm thinking/I'm waiting for this thing to end.

All I can do now is wait for the noise.)

Cheering, eh? He walked away from that one, by the way.

And, er, that's it. Any more?
 
Old 29th Apr 2000, 17:19
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Old 29th Apr 2000, 18:33
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Noddy,

I can imagine the footage to music (lyrics especially) really hit the spot. I'm an ex-camera op myself and heard a couple of accounts from some ENG crew who were out there. Never got to see the videos though, shame.
 
Old 1st May 2000, 11:08
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One that reminds me of the Dash 8s of a UK regional (one of the two that have them!) when cleared for take off - Van Morrison's "Dweller on the Threshold".
 
Old 1st May 2000, 19:11
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....and here's some more!!!!!
Tom Petty.............Free Fallin'
Jimi Hendrix..........Little Wing
Tori Amos.............Not The Red Baron
.....and for 146 drivers...we have..
Jimi Hendrix..........Purple Haze
The platters..........Smoke Gets In your Eyes
 
Old 2nd May 2000, 05:13
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Harry Chapin - Taxi. Great blues.

I can't remember the artists name, but the song was "caught between the moon and New York City" written while the writer was in a holding pattern over NYC.

Tom Petty - Learning to Fly - way cool.
 
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Mike Oldfield: Five Miles Out, includes ATC and technical jargon
Late John Denver: Leaving on a Jetplane, as a pilot/musician also has an "airy" feel to many of his songs.
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