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Greatest Aviation Movie

Help us select the Greatest Aviation Movie of All Time! This list represents the top 10 movies suggested by EAA members during January and February. The movie receiving the most votes will be shown to an audience of thousands on the big outdoor screen at the Ford-Eclipse Fly-In Theater, during the week of EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2007. Voting is open until May 2, 2007.  

Twelve O'Clock High (1949)
Starring: Gary Merrill, Robert Arthur, Gregory Peck

Drama involving a general's concern for his men's morale while heading up the operations of a bombing squadron from a base in Chelveston, England, during the early part of WWII.

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The High and the Mighty (1954)
Starring: John Wayne, Claire Trevor
When an airplane en route from Hawaii to California loses an engine just past the point of no return, pilots Sullivan and Dan Roman call on all their experience and ingenuity to keep it aloft. Meanwhile, the passengers are desperately trying to illuminate and heal the crippled corners of their own lives.
The Spirit of St. Louis (1957)
Starring: James Stewart, Murray Hamilton
Filmic version of the events leading up to and after Charles Lindbergh's historic trans-Atlantic flight.
The Flight of the Phoenix (1965)
Starring: James Stewart, Richard Attenborough
When their plane crashes in the Sahara desert, the survivors - some businessmen and some British military officers - must find a way to survive the sun, the lack of water, and marauding Arabs. Somehow, they manage to repair the plane, using one engine, and take the risk that it will get them out of there.
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965)
Starring: Stuart Whitman, Sarah Miles
In 1910, when a British newspaper offers a cash prize for a flying competition, some budding early aviation pioneers introduce some zany contraptions which can actually fly.
The Blue Max (1966)
Starring: George Peppard, James Mason
World War I drama involving a lower-class German aviator who comes into conflict with an aristocratic member of his squadron.
Battle of Britain (1969)
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Robert Shaw
England defends itself against an aerial onslaught during the summer of 1940.
The Great Waldo Pepper (1975)
Starring: Robert Redford, Bo Svenson
Waldo Pepper, a former World War I pilot who exaggerates his accomplishments in battle, teams up with an air
show entrepreneur to barnstorm all over the Midwest in search of the glory that he never had.
Top Gun (1986)
Starring: Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis
A young recruit aspires to become the top fighter pilot in the prestigious naval training school he attends.
Memphis Belle (1990)
Starring: Matthew Modine, Eric Stoltz
True story of an American crew on the B-17 bomber "Memphis Belle" on a hazardous World War II mission.

  

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