Touching scene's you've seen with aircraft

[FOZ_1983]

Was a bit bored earlier today and decieed to look up a few clips on youtube of whatever took my fancy and came across one i've seen many times before, it got me thinking.... We all enjoy air displays now days and the purr of the engines, they are their to get our imagination going etc. But has any particular display or flight actually touched you and made you think about things etc?

This one gets me -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXDtE_lVAkk&feature=fvsr

To go up and do that after seeing a pilot lose his life when his Hurricane crashed is a brave thing to do and shows alot of respect. Emotions and feelings must of been all over the place. Quite moving i find.


What about you guys? Would love to see how we all differ/agree/share the same views on this type of thing.

[bobbysocks]

didnt care too much for the movie but flying in this scene i love! some of the best buzz jobs caught on film .. this and the one in tora, tora, tora .. oh, and the little kid is christian bale.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02BBtN-P0lc

[Vulcan607]

A touching moment would have to be when the rookies B-17 is taken out in Mephis Belle.
@FOZ, I dont want to worry you but they dont look like Hurricanes to me?

[FOZ_1983]

Originally Posted by bobbysocks

didnt care too much for the movie but flying in this scene i love! some of the best buzz jobs caught on film .. this and the one in tora, tora, tora .. oh, and the little kid is christian bale.

Good scene!! That particular part "P51 CADILLAC OF THE SKY!!" is show on the extras for saving private ryan along with some other stuff. A great attack by the P51's, would love to of seen that being filmed. Good choice!!

Originally Posted by Vulcan607

A touching moment would have to be when the rookies B-17 is taken out in Mephis Belle.
@FOZ, I dont want to worry you but they dont look like Hurricanes to me?

Their Spitfires. They did the missing man formation at the shoreham airshow a couple of years ago after a 109 and a Hurricane were doing a mock dogfight, something went wrong and the Hurricane fell out of the sky and crashed into a field killing the pilot. Straight after the crash, all the Spitfires that were at the display all took off and flew the missing man formation. Quite moving i thought.

Also in mephis belle, i know the scene. Mother and country gets taken out when a 109 cuts right through the fuselage after getting shot down by the co piloy who was in the rear turret and you hear them screaming over the radio.

Good choices guys, keep them coming.

[FOZ_1983]

This be that scene -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BU5TKCxZ0s4

[Vulcan607]

Aye, that be the one.

[MACADEMIC]

Originally Posted by bobbysocks

didnt care too much for the movie but flying in this scene i love! some of the best buzz jobs caught on film .. this and the one in tora, tora, tora .. oh, and the little kid is christian bale.

Christian Bale? Amazing! In the Werner Herzog Movie 'Rescue Dawn' Bale plays American Pilot Dieter Dengler who was shot down in Vietnam. In one scene Bale describes how, as a child in Germany, he witnessed the flyby of a P51 with open canopy and the pilot waving at him after an attack, which made Dengler want to become a pilot.

Quite taken by the fact that Bale played exactly that scene as a child actor (which I didn't know he was). Thanks for putting that up. Great great actor.

MAC

[bobbysocks]

that is actually kind of funny that he made that reference in another movie. when i reviewed that clip i knew the kid's face looked familar but couldnt place it. so i looked it up and was surprised it was bale. i thought he emerged like way later...guess not.

[Soviet Ace]

How about these?

Thirty Seconds over Tokyo

The Hunters

[flynlion]

My best friend was killed while flying Apaches in Iraq. As Taps were being played at the funeral service, his squadron flew a missing man formation over the cemetary. That's one airshow I will never forget.