• There seems to be an uptick in Political comments in recent months. Those of us who are long time members of the site know that Political and Religious content has been banned for years. Nothing has changed. Please leave all political and religious comments out of the forums.

    If you recently joined the forums you were not presented with this restriction in the terms of service. This was due to a conversion error when we went from vBulletin to Xenforo. We have updated our terms of service to reflect these corrections.

    Please note any post refering to a politician will be considered political even if it is intended to be humor. Our experience is these topics have a way of dividing the forums and causing deep resentment among members. It is a poison to the community. We appreciate compliance with the rules.

    The Staff of SOH

  • Server side Maintenance is done. We still have an update to the forum software to run but that one will have to wait for a better time.

Winter Film List

For Korean War jet action, don't forget to get "The Bridges at Toko-Ri" with William Hoden and Micky Rooney playing the key parts.

Great footage of F9F Panthers and Sikorsky helos.

It was a good read too. The author was James Michener.

Another Korean War fighter movie is "The Hunters" with Robert Mitchum and Robert Wagner, both F-86 pilots in the movie.
 
"The Bridges at Toko-Ri"

If I'm not mistaken this movie is scheduled this weekend on The Military Channel.

:USA-flag:
 
Stumbled across this little gem on ThisTV one night during Veterans Day week: Dirigible (1931)

There is an amazing amount of aviation history packed into what is kind of a cornball movie! If everyone recalls, just a little while ago, we had a thread about the lighter than air ships and sparrowhawks docking with them and all that. Well, this movie has ALL THAT! The first half of the movie is shot at the Naval Air Station, Lakehurst New Jersey. In the movie the fictional airship is named the USS Pensacola. In reality the NAVY let the film makers have full use and freedom of the USS Los Angeles. This was 6 years before the Hindenburg disaster. They show in detail just how the airships approached and docked with the landing masts. Great shots inside and out of the hangars and there is even a great scene where a Curtiss Sparrowhawk dock with the Trapeze- shot from inside and outside the ship. Its pretty cool! Later in the movie, at-sea, there is footage of a carrier take off aboard USS Lexington still sporting her 8 inch guns.

I forget who all is in it. Frank Capra directed it. Fay Wray plays the main love interest. It worth a look. Although as I say the acting and the plot are kinda goofy.

MR

BTW- checked to see if it is available on NetFlix. Didn't see it. Amazon carries a copy but its currently unavailable. :( Here's a poster.
 
Hehe, one more- once I get going I can't stop! The other night my daughter was over and at random we decided to watch a movie (NetFlix) named "Beneath Hill 60". It is a WWI story about the 1st Australian Tunnelling Company who- among their many other duties- tunneled under the German positions on the Messiness Ridge (at the far north end) and set off this mine (one of 21 mines that were set off along the ridge) that at the time was the largest detonation of explosives in history. It rattled windows in London! Its is a great movie- has zero to do with Aviation- well worth watching even so. All about the toll that WWI took on the participants.

Cheers,
MR
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top