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Your Chance to
Vote: 'Members' Choice' Poll Helps Pick Films at EAA Fly-In Theater
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EAA members again have a voice in
selecting the movies shown during EAA AirVenture 2008 at the popular
Fly-In Theater, sponsored by Ford Motor Company and Eclipse Aviation.
That area, adjacent to Camp Scholler, will again provide nightly outdoor
movie entertainment on a large screen for campground residents and
others during the fly-in. While the roster of aviation movies is not yet
finalized, one of the featured films will be a "Members'
Choice," selected through an online poll that begins this week on
the EAA AirVenture website.
"We've drawn a list of the 10 most
voted-on movies among the hundreds of nominations received for last
year's wildly successful 'Greatest Aviation Movie of All Time'
poll," said Adam Smith, EAA vice president of membership.
"Visitors to the website can vote on what they would like to see,
and the movie garnering the most votes will be shown during the week at
Oshkosh."
The poll will run through May 2, 2008,
and we'll announce the top vote getter that week along with the rest of
the scheduled movies and celebrity presenters.
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Vote now -
Members' Choice Movie Poll |
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Movie Descriptions:
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 Air
America (1990)
Starring: Mel Gibson, Robert Downey, Jr.
A young pilot finds himself recruited into a covert and corrupt CIA
airlift organization operating in Vietnam War Era Laos.
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 The
Dambusters (1955)
Starring: Michael Redgrave, Ursula Jeans, Charles Carson
True story of how the British attacked German dams in WW2 by using
an ingenious technique to drop bombs where they would be most effective.
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 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.
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 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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 Always
(1989)
Starring: Richard Dreyfuss, Holly Hunter, Brad Johnson,
John Goodman
A romantic adventure about a legendary pilot's passion for
dare-devil firefighting and his girl.
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 The
Final Countdown
(1980)
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Martin Sheen, Katharine Ross, James
Farentino
A modern aircraft carrier is thrown back in time to 1941 near
Hawaii, just hours before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
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 Strategic
Air Command
(1955)
Starring: Jimmy Stewart, June Allyson, Frank Lovejoy,
Barry Sullivan
Lt. Col. Robert (Dutch) Holland was a third baseman for the St.
Louis Cardinals, not a pitcher. While at spring training a B-36 flew
over the field and Dutch was standing on third base. Brewster was his
third base replacement when he, Dutch was re-called to duty.
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 Airplane!
(1980)
Starring: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves,
Julie Hagerty, Robert Hays, Leslie Nielsen
An airplane crew takes ill. Surely the only person capable of
landing the plane is an ex-pilot afraid to fly. But don't call him
Shirley.
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 Bridges
at Toko-Ri
(1954)
Starring: William Holden, Grace Kelly, Fredric March, Mickey
Rooney
Set during the Korean War, a Navy fighter pilot must come to terms
with with his own ambivalence towards the war and the fear of having to
bomb a set of highly defended bridges.
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 Tora
Tora Tora
(1970)
Starring: Martin Balsam, Sô Yamamura, Joseph Cotten, E.G.
Marshall
A dramatization of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the
series of American blunders that allowed it to happen.
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