Worst ever Flying Film?
 

In the considered opinion of all PPruners out there - what do you consider to be the worst ever flying film?
My vote goes for 'Top Gun'. Superb flying sequences, but the rest was shmaltzy, post-Vietnam wish fulfilment, contrived PANTS.

He gets away with a 400kts tower flypast?
The moment (literally) they finish training a crisis starts?

Thank god I failed my RAF medical - they must be so FED UP of the press referring to them as 'Top Guns', even after 14 years.

What do you think?

[This message has been edited by swashplate (edited 15 September 2000).]

so many movies
so little time

where do i start?
well those airport movies:
the guy with the bomb.
the 747 has a mid air and the f/a has to fly the plane.
the one where the 747 goes underwater.
no wait the one with the concorde was the worst http://www.pprune.org/ubb/NonCGI/eek.gif

pushing tin
yeah right, lets all go play on the runway!
and god i hated that crappy/soppy ending http://www.pprune.org/ubb/NonCGI/frown.gif

turbulence
less said the better

any movie based on a real event
usually don't lets the facts get n the way of a good (hahahaha)story.


i also hate that the movie makers always do things like show completely different aircraft as the same one.
i swear i saw a movie that was based on a real event that involved a DC 10. in the movie they changed it to a 767, but showed a 737 as it taking off!!!!

and all those 747s with glass cockpits and classic fuselages!!!!!!!!!!

the truely saddest thing is that i persist in watching these movies! :)
i need a life http://www.pprune.org/ubb/NonCGI/tongue.gif




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Being an airline pilot would be great if you didn't have to go on all those trips.

Yes, I saw the 'DC10 morphs into 767 'cos AirNZ don't fly em anymore' movie as well!

Can't remember the title, but it was the one where the ferry pilot in a Pawnee gets lost over Pacific due to faulty ADF.

By the way, he DIDN'T glide into Auckland, he landed on another Island!

Easy - "Pushing Tin"

Can't vouch for the ending, cos I had put it off by then.

Easier!

Has got to be any of the 'Iron eagle' series. They were well and truely awful films

Saw an old Hawaii 5-0 episode corcening a South American Presidente if distincly unwelcome nature having to divert with problems to his 'jet' - which was repeatedly referred to as such. Only problem was that they couldn't get a jet for the filming and they used an old DC3

Sorta flying film.

"This Island Earth" 3rd crappiest Sci-Fi I have seen, but in one scene is a stupendously modified shiny techno-wizard remote piloted (by verociter) DC3....

Also amazing Sceptic war film about Midway, I think it was called "Midway." A high point was Admiral Yammamoto's Catalina being shot down by USAAF Hurricanes....?

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TopGun gets my vote for the BEST flying film to date.
Who cares about the shmaltz - the flying scenes were superb.
Of course a crisis started "the moment (literally) they finish training". How many years did you want the film to last in the interests of credibility?

I'm not sure that RAF jet jockeys are quite as "FED UP of the press referring to them as 'Top Guns', even after 14 years" as you think.
Most jet jockeys I know saw it n. times, and then bought the video!

Airforce One.

Executive Decision. 6+ guys in the back of a F117 and a jet with an attic 6 foot high above the cabin!!

Watched "Executive Decision" for the first and only time this weekend....

Hmmmm.. I think it ranks quite high up on my list.

What was the film that someone (Charlton Heston ??) dropped down into the cockpit on the end of a rope??
Can't remember the details as fell asleep..
:rolleyes:

the one with the guy dropping in on a rope was the second airport one
where the 747 had a midair and the f/a had to fly it

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