What are the top five aviation movies? My criteria; the aircraft used are (look) believable for the time period of the movie. The flight scenes look real, the movie has a decent story line. oh, and a lack of crappy plot lines, that lend nothing to the movie, and distract from the most important parts i. e. cool air-to-air shots of the aircraft!
Here are my top five;
1. Rudy, has nothing to do with flying, and everything to do with Notre Dame
2. Flying Leathernecks, great actual combat footage, decent story, F6F hellcat and F4U corsair air-to-air footage (oh and MARINE pilots! Semper Fi!)
3. Memphis Belle,B-17′s, P-51′s, Me-109, Combat footage, excellent Aerial footage,decent story, ok acting.
4. Battle of Britian, forget the story and acting, Spitfires! Hurricanes!, He-111′s, Me-109′ s(although the German A/C were actually Spanish)
5. The Blue Max, George Peppard at his most evil, GREAT air to air action, with actual period replicas!
Did I mention Rudy
