title: Indian 2

text: Despite several proposed announcements of starting dates, the film's shoot was delayed throughout 2018 owing to Shankar's commitments with "2.0", which also faced significant production delays. Haasan also decided to use the time to release his long-delayed "Vishwaroopam II" (2018) and commit to his political career. In August 2018, Shankar and Haasan, announced that the film's shoot will commence in December 2018, Lyca Productions, later officially announced the film on 7 November 2018, coinciding with Haasan's birthday. Muthuraj began working on the production design during November 2018, as the film's shoot was scheduled to start in late 2018; however the delay in its set work, made the team to postpone its shoot to early-2019.


title: Indian 2

text: Nayanthara was considered for the leading female role, before Kajal Aggarwal was finalised. For her role, Aggarwal learnt the basics of the Indian martial arts form Kalaripayattu. Siddharth was confirmed to play another role in the film, after the team had initially held discussions with the likes of Silambarasan, Dulquer Salmaan and Arya for the same character. Ajay Devgn agreed to play the antagonist in the film, but production delays meant that he could not commit dates for the films. Akshay Kumar, Abhishek Bachchan and John Abraham were considered as replacements, but neither actor was signed. Other actors including Delhi Ganesh and RJ Balaji were also signed to portray supporting roles in the film. However, Balaji opted out of the film in October 2019. Nedumudi Venu was also set to reprise his role from the first film, but he died in October 2021 after post-coronavirus complications.


title: Indian 2

text: Closer to the start of the second schedule, actors Vidyut Jammwal and Bobby Simha were signed on for roles. While, the latter confirmed his role in the film, the former denied such claims. Rakul Preet Singh also joined the film to star opposite the character essayed by Siddharth, Aishwarya Rajesh was expected to join the film, but due to call sheet issues, she was replaced by Priya Bhavani Shankar. Vivek confirmed that he will be a part of the project, collaborating with Haasan for the first time, where he plays the role of a CBI officer in the film. It was considered to be one of his final films before his death in April 2021. Actors Samuthirakani and George Maryan also joined the cast in supporting roles. After Shankar was impressed with Telugu actor Vennela Kishore's performance in "Bhale Bhale Magadivoy" (2015), Kishore was announced to play a supporting role and has allotted 70 days for the film, making his full-fledged Tamil debut. Manobala was hired for an important role. Vivek's portions had to be reshot due to his untimely death.


title: Indian 2

text: A series of promotional posters featuring Haasan in his character were released in early January 2019 and production subsequently started on 18 January 2019. A week-long shoot was held at a memorial home near Government General Hospital in Chennai, before the team also shot scenes at a nearby film studio. However the film was again delayed after the makers had trouble with the created sets. The shoot was pushed further owing to the Indian general election in May 2019, where Haasan's political party participated. Throughout the development process in 2018 and early 2019, the makers regularly denied media reports that the film had been shelved. Later, the shooting was resumed in May 2019, post elections. Owing to the long break between the schedules, cinematographer Ravi Varman also left the project after becoming committed to Mani Ratnam's "Ponniyin Selvan", and was subsequently replaced by R. Rathnavelu who previously worked with Shankar in "Enthiran" (2010).


title: Indian 2

text: The second schedule began on 12 August 2019, at MGR Film City in Chennai, with scenes featuring Rakul Preet Singh being shot. Siddharth and Priya Bhavani Shankar too joined the sets on 16 August, and later Haasan too joined the sets on mid-September, where his portions being filmed. Haasan and team, later moved to a city hotel in T. Nagar, to proceed the shoot further. On 11 September 2019, the team announced that the second schedule of the film which took place in Chennai has been completed. On 19 September 2019, the team went to Rajahmundry, shoot the film's sequences featuring Haasan. Later on 23 October, Haasan and his team went to Bhopal, to shoot the film at its third schedule.


title: Indian 2

text: On 25 October, it was reported that a massive political rally along with a fight sequence, involving Haasan and 2000 junior artistes was shot in Bhopal at the cost of . On 30 October 2019, it was reported that the makers head to Gwalior for a 12-day long shoot schedule, which was completed within seven days. Post the completion, the actor went to Chennai, to attend a felicitation ceremony for his 60 years in Tamil cinema, followed by a surgery on 22 November, after he met with an accident in 2016. Scenes without featuring Haasan were canned, in order to complete major portions of the film, and planned to shoot his portions, after his recovery. On 21 January 2020, it was reported that Haasan will shoot for the film post his recovery, and it will take place at the EVP Film City, Chennai which will last for 35 days. It was reported that the film's team will change the location from China to Italy, following the fear of coronavirus pandemic.


title: Indian 2

text: The film's shoot was further interrupted following a major accident in the film's sets, and also due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Haasan planned to resume the shoot in January 2021 after hosting the fourth season of "Bigg Boss Tamil". But the makers cited the difficulties on finishing the shoot before the Tamil Nadu elections, and planned to resume the shoot without Haasan in February 2021, with the other cast and the director were advised to keep themselves available for the shoot and planned to finish Haasan's portions after the elections. As of 28 November 2021, 60% of the film's portions have been completed with more than 100 days of the film's shoot is pending. Filming was planned to resume in December 2021, but pushed back further due to Haasan and Shankar's other commitments, In June 2022, Udhayanidhi Stalin of Red Giant Movies confirmed he had discussions with Subaskaran and that filming would resume soon, though he did not say whether he would be co-producing or distributing the film. Filming resumed on 24 August 2022 with Red Giant Movies confirmed as co-producers, while Haasan and Aggarwal joined the sets from September onwards.


title: Indian 2

text: The soundtrack album and background score are composed by Anirudh Ravichander, who is working with Haasan and Shankar for the very first time, and also replacing A. R. Rahman, Shankar's norm music composer, whom also worked with him in its predecessor, although since Anirudh collaborated with Haasan in Lokesh Kanagaraj's "Vikram" film which got released, it marks the second collaboration of Anirudh with Kamal. In an interview with an online portal Rahman stated that "Kamal had mentioned me to score for its sequel, but Shankar eventually had other ideas. Shankar is a person who wants to get inspired. Sometimes, when you work with the same person back-to-back, you get bored. Also "2.0" is a difficult film that took me a long time to complete. Maybe Shankar thought he shouldn't make me overwork. That could be one of the reasons why he had chosen Anirudh."


title: Indian 2

text: Anirudh Ravichander stated working with Shankar as a "dream come true moment"; he eventually quoted "Indian" is a cult album and one of his favourites from Rahman's composition. In an interview with "India Today", Anirudh stated about the comparisons of the first part to its sequel, that "With sequels, there are always comparisons on which one is better, but then nobody can match Rahman's work. I can never recreate the magic that "Indian" did in the 90s. Whatever I can do to the best of my abilities is what I am trying to do." After the offer came his way in November 2017, Anirudh started composing for the songs during December 2017, and it took a year to complete the album, stating that the delay in the release of 2.0, have given him much time to work on the film's songs.


title: Indian 2

text: In May 2018, lyricist Thamarai was hired to write one of the songs in the film, in her maiden collaboration with Shankar. During the film's launch, lyricists Pa. Vijay, Vignesh Shivan and Vivek were hired for the technical crew. It was further reported that Haresh Vikram, an independent artist from Malaysia, was reported to provide vocals for one of the songs in the soundtrack.


title: Indian 2

text: On 19 February 2020, during the shooting of the film, a crane carrying a heavy flash light fell on the sets, resulting in the deaths of three crew members, including an assistant director and leaving ten more injured. Haasan, Shankar and Aggarwal had narrow escapes. A case was filed against Lyca Productions, along with three other persons by the Chennai police in connection with the accident on 21 February; The crane operator Rajan who absconded post the incident, was arrested and booked under three sections, the same day. Later Haasan and Shankar were summoned by the CBI, to investigate the accident during the sets.


title: Indian 2

text: On 26 February 2020, a week after the accident, Haasan wrote a letter to Lyca Productions, to conduct a safety audit, in order to prevent any unfortunate accidents. The very same day, the CEO of Lyca Productions, Allirajah Subaskaran, released a statement on Twitter, stating the shoot was held completely under the supervision of Haasan and Shankar. On 28 February, Shankar announced that, a donation of crore will be given to the family of the deceased. Following the accident, the team planned to shift the shooting location from EVP Film City to Binny Mills.


title: Indian 2

text: While Haasan planned to resume shooting in January 2021, he also signed "Vikram" during the intermediate timeline, and Shankar also felt disappointed with the production house for not taking a call on the resumption of the shoot. According to "The Times of India", they had been told that:


title: Indian 2

text: The report also claimed they had been told that Shankar had completed around 60% cent of the film's portions, including the intermission sequence, and "Even though Kamal is now focusing on Lokesh's project, he is also keen on wrapping up this film because he feels the film will give a major boost to his political image in the upcoming state elections, and wants it to release at least by summer 2021." However the company's COO, P. Kannan, denied it as a baseless rumour and stated that they did not get any kind of such information from the director. He added, "The film requires a huge crew of 500-600 people on the set, so the planning is going on. We are in the process of deciding how to move forward with the shoot, and in fact, we met Kamal Haasan yesterday to discuss this. We are hoping to resume the shoot soon." Aggarwal, in March 2021, had stated that the reason for the delay as most of the crew members are from the United States, they are unable to travel and work here in India due to COVID-19 travel restrictions.


title: Indian 2

text: Following the delay over the film's shooting, Shankar had planned to direct his next untitled film with Ram Charan, and also the Hindi remake of "Anniyan", with Ranveer Singh. In April 2021, Lyca Productions submitted a suit against Shankar to restrain directing any other film before his commitments with the film. However, Shankar denied Lyca's allegations and also argued that the production house cannot prevent him from making other films. The court ordered Shankar and Lyca Productions to settle this issue amicably, but negotiations failed, with Shankar blaming Haasan and Lyca for the delay. In June 2021, the Madras High Court denied the producer's appeal to stop Shankar directing other films. In June 2022, following the release of "Vikram", Haasan stated that they would resume "Indian 2" once Shankar completes his film starring Charan. In August 2022, Shankar announced that he will be filming both "Indian 2" and "RC15", simultaneously.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: Various real-world aircraft have long made significant appearances in fictional works, including books, films, toys, TV programs, video games, and other media.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The first aviation film was the 1911 William J. Humphrey–directed two-reeler, "The Military Air-Scout", shot following an Aero Club of America flying meet at Long Island, New York, with Lt. Henry Arnold doing the stunt flying. "Arnold, who picked up 'a few extra bucks' for his services, became so excited about movies that he almost quit the Army to become an actor."


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The years between World War I and World War II saw extensive use of the new technology, aircraft, in the new medium, film. In the early 1920s Hollywood studios made dozens of now-obscure "aerial Westerns" with leads such as Tom Mix and Hoot Gibson, where the role of the horse was taken by aircraft, or used aircraft as nothing more than vehicles for stunts to excite audiences. In 1926 the first "proper" aviation film was made; "Wings" is a story of two pilots who sign up to fly and fight in The Great War. Made with the co-operation of the United States' then-Department of War (a relationship that continues to this day), it used front-line military aircraft of the day such as the Thomas-Morse MB-3 and Boeing PW-9, flown by military pilots. Future US Air Force Generals Hap Arnold and Hoyt Vandenberg were among the military officers involved with the production, Arnold as a technical consultant and Vandenberg as one of the pilots. "Wings" was a box-office hit when it achieved general release in 1929 and went on to win the award for Best Production at the first Academy Awards.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: In Fascist Italy in the 1930s, aviation-themed films were used as propaganda tools to complement the massed flights led by Italo Balbo in promoting the regime domestically and abroad. One such film was the most successful Italian film of the pre-World War II era; "Luciano Serra pilota" ("Luciano Serra, Pilot") was inextricably linked to the Fascist government via Mussolini's son Vittorio, who was the driving force behind the film's production. The film, set between 1921 and the Italo-Abyssinian War, was used to compare the allegedly moribund state of aviation in pre-Fascist Italy with the purported power of the Regia Aeronautica and Italian aviation in general in the 1930s. However, by the time that "Luciano Serra pilota" was shown at the 1938 Venice Film Festival, the link between aviation and Fascism had already been firmly established in the minds of the Italian people through widespread depictions of aircraft in a variety of media. For example, there was an entire branch of the Futurist Art movement devoted to aviation, known as "Aeropittura" ("Aeropainting"). While many of the "Aeropittura" works were devoted to flight rather than aircraft "per se", some did celebrate Italian aviation exploits, such as Alfredo Ambrosi's "Il volo su Vienna" ("The Flight over Vienna") which depicted in Futurist style the World War I exploit of Gabriele d'Annunzio; although the city of Vienna is shown in abstract in accordance with the aims of "Aeropittura" – namely to show the dynamism and excitement of flight – the Ansaldo SVA aircraft are very carefully and accurately rendered.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The U.S. military controls whether its aircraft may be used for movie or video production. Requests for such use must be accompanied by the proposed production's script, allowing military officials to withhold aircraft when they believe the work will not portray the U.S. military in a sufficiently positive light. Because alternatives to using real military aircraft can be expensive, films that do not get U.S. military approval often do not get financed or made. Sean McElwee, writing for "Salon.com", concluded of this problem,"This is a "prima facie" case for "de facto" censorship...If the government wants to allow its equipment to be used by studios, it needs to grant access to anyone who wants to use it – that is the meaning of pluralism. The Pentagon fears that some of the movies may hurt the military's reputation and recruiting efforts. These concerns are legitimate, but it's more important that we allow John Stuart Mill's 'market place of ideas' to be a place for free trade, rather than favoring some over others."Since the advent of television, aircraft have been featured in numerous miniseries and series around the world. These include the American productions "Twelve O'Clock High", "Airwolf", "Baa Baa Black Sheep", "Sky King" and "Wings"; the Australian series "Big Sky", "Chopper Squad" and "The Flying Doctors", and the miniseries "The Lancaster Miller Affair"; British shows such as "Airline", "Piece of Cake" and "Squadron", the Canadian series "Arctic Air"; "JETS – Leben am Limit" and "Medicopter 117 – Jedes Leben zählt" from Germany; and the Canadian–British–German co-production "Ritter's Cove".


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: In the 1953 James A. Michener novel "The Bridges at Toko-Ri", a number of Douglas AD-1 Skyraiders fly RESCAP missions over a downed McDonnell F2H Banshee and Sikorsky HO3S-1 during the Korean War. This is also the case in the 1954 film of the same name, but with the Banshee replaced by a Grumman F9F Panther.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: Two privately-owned Skyraiders were used to depict U.S. Air Force "Sandy" search-and-rescue escort aircraft in the 1991 film "Flight of the Intruder".


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The Skyraider was also featured as one of the many aircraft providing close air support during the First Battle of the Ia Drang Valley Campaign in Mel Gibson's 2002 film "We Were Soldiers", based on the non-fiction book "We Were Soldiers Once... And Young" by Lieutenant General (Ret.) Hal Moore and reporter Joseph L. Galloway.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The Skyraider was featured in the 2006 Werner Herzog film Rescue Dawn. The movie was based on the true story of German-American Naval aviator Dieter Dengler, who was piloting an A-1 Skyraider when it was shot down in 1966 over Laos. Dengler endured months of captivity and torture before he was able to escape and was eventually rescued.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The 1986 Stephen Coonts novel "Flight of the Intruder" is about two naval aviators who take their Grumman A-6 Intruder on an unauthorized bombing raid on Hanoi during the Vietnam War. It was made into a 1991 film of the same name.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The popularity of the A-10 Thunderbolt II lead to the Hasbro toy company releasing a minor Transformers character named Powerglide that turned into an A-10.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The A-10 is one of the player-flyable aircraft in the 1989 video game "U.N. Squadron". The aircraft is also featured in the 1989 video game "A-10 Tank Killer". Since then, it has made appearances in the "Ace Combat" series. The A-10 has also been featured as a study level aircraft in the popular combat flight simulator DCS world.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: A-10s were also featured in the 2005 film "Jarhead", where they attack U.S. Marine forces in a friendly fire incident.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: In the 2009 film "Terminator Salvation", several A-10s are sent to support the ground troops led by John Connor in the opening sequence of the film. Later, two Resistance A-10s are shot down when trying to intercept the machine transport in which Marcus Wright and Kyle Reese were captive.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: Three A-10s using the call sign "Thunder" are sent to Smallville to kill both Superman and General Zod and his henchmen in the 2013 film "Man of Steel" but are attacked by Zod's forces, resulting in the destruction of two of the jets.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: Two A-26 firebombers were prominently featured in the 1989 Steven Spielberg film "Always". Attempts to use radio-controlled models for special effects shots were abandoned as unworkable; instead, models were "flown" from wire rigs.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The Mitsubishi A6M Zero was featured in the films "The Final Countdown", "Pearl Harbor", and "Tora! Tora! Tora!". The Zero was also depicted in the 1976 film "Midway"; however real Zeros were not used. Modified T-6 Texans were used in "Tora! Tora! Tora!", "Midway", and "The Final Countdown" to depict A6M2 Type 21 Zero fighters, and some footage from the former was reused in the latter. Three Type 52 Zeros were used in "Pearl Harbor". Two restored aircraft operated by Flight Magic, and one in the Planes of Fame Air Museum collection were barged to Hawaii where "all three aircraft were extensively flown with few problems until NX6528L suffered a gear-up landing. Fortunately, this was near the end of filming. NX6528L was shipped to Pete Regina Aviation at Van Nuys, California where it was returned to flying condition. This aircraft is now with the Commemorative Air Force Southern California Wing at Camarillo Airport."


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The A5M and A6M are both featured in "The Wind Rises", a 2013 Studio Ghibli animated fictionalized biopic of Zero designer Jiro Horikoshi.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: Zero fighters are shown in the 2013 Japanese novel "Eien No Zero" ("The Eternal Zero") by Naoki Hyakuta, which was made into a 2013 film of the same name directed by Takashi Yamazaki.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: A heavily modified Aérospatiale Gazelle was the centerpiece of the 1983 John Badham action film "Blue Thunder". The same helicopter appeared in the short-lived 1984 TV series by the same name starring James Farentino. The modified Gazelle went on to be used in the TV mini-series "Amerika".


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: Modified Aérospatiale SA 330 Pumas were used to depict Mil Mi-24 helicopter gunships in the films "Red Dawn" (1984), "" (1985), and "Rambo III" (1988).


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: At the climax of the 2012 James Bond film "Skyfall", an armed AgustaWestland AW101 Merlin transport helicopter is used in the main villain Silva's assault on Bond and M at Bond's childhood home.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The Boeing AH-64 Apache had a major role in the 1990 action-thriller film directed by David Green, "Fire Birds" (or "Wings of the Apache").


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The 1992 shooter game "Desert Strike" has the main character flying the AH-64 to complete various missions.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: Gunship is an AH-64 Apache helicopter simulation that was released by Microprose in 1986. The sequel Gunship 2000 was released in 1991. Since then, the helicopter has also made an appearance in the hardcore study-level sim DCS: World, being praised for its accurate depiction of the systems and procedures.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: In the 2008 film "The Incredible Hulk", an AH-64 was used in an attempt to kill the Hulk with the unusual configuration of twin, pylon-mounted miniguns.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The assault on what would later be known as the Pegasus Bridge over the Caen Canal in France by British commandos landing in Airspeed Horsa gliders was depicted in the 1962 war epic "The Longest Day". Only one Horsa replica was actually constructed.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: Ten non-flyable Airspeed Horsa mockups were fabricated for the filming of the 1977 film "A Bridge Too Far".


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: An Albatros fighter appears in the 1966 novel "In the Company of Eagles" by Ernest K Gann. The novel is set in 1916 during the First World War and features a German ace pilot Lt Sebastian Kupper of Jasta 76 who, flying an Albatros scout, pursues a burning French aircraft and, in what was intended as an act of mercy, kills the pilot so as to spare him from slowly burning to death. The gesture is misinterpreted as an act of murder by one of the French pilot's comrades, Sgt. Paul Chamay who vows to seek and kill the German pilot.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: At least two American Eagle A-1s were employed in the production of the 1930 film "Young Eagles" which was directed by William A. Wellman and starred Buddy Rogers and Jean Arthur. The film portrayed American pilots serving in France during the Great War. Although the A-1 was a post-WW1 trainer, the film-makers considered it suitable to portray wartime aircraft. One Eagle was painted with USAS insignia while a second was painted with German markings. Stunt pilot Dick Grace was hired to deliberately crash-land both of them in separate scenes, which severely damaged both aircraft. Grace escaped injury on both occasions.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: An Avro Anson was used as a "stand-in" to represent the Boeing 247 "Race 57" flown in the 1934 England-to-Australia MacRobertson Air Race by Roscoe Turner, in the 1991 Australian television miniseries "The Great Air Race". Turner was played by Barry Bostwick in the miniseries.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: An Avro Ashton, in its six-engined, Olympus testbed form, appeared as the fictitious "Phoenix" airliner in "Cone of Silence" (1960), based on the novel of the same name by David Beaty, a former BOAC pilot. This concerned the takeoff problems of the "Phoenix", and the subsequent accident investigation; it was based on two takeoff accidents to the de Havilland Comet.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow makes a prominent appearance in Daniel Wyatt's 1990 novel, "The Last Flight of the Arrow". In the novel, the real-life destruction of the fighter is a cover for a secret U.S.-Canadian continental air-defense initiative that fields a fleet of Arrows. A Polish-Canadian Royal Canadian Air Force pilot flies one Arrow on a high-speed reconnaissance flight over Russia to find proof that the Soviet Union is planning an airstrike on North America.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The Avro Lancaster was the best-known Royal Air Force heavy bomber of World War II. As such it has appeared in many works of fiction related to Bomber Command and its night raids over Germany and occupied Europe.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: Lancasters appeared in the 1952 British war film "Appointment in London" (released in the US as "Raiders in the Sky") directed by Philip Leacock and starring Dirk Bogarde. Three Lancasters were used in the production—"NX673", "NX679" and "NX782", the same three that were used in the filming of "The Dam Busters" three years later.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The Lancaster was central to the second half of the 1955 British film "The Dam Busters". This is a dramatisation of the real-life Operation Chastise, which included the forming of No. 617 Squadron RAF commanded by Wing Commander Guy Gibson, who was awarded the Victoria Cross (VC), and the bombing of the Möhne, Eder and Sorpe Dams in Germany to interrupt water and hydro-electric power supplies to German munitions factories. The film is based on the books "The Dam Busters" by Paul Brickhill and "Enemy Coast Ahead" by Guy Gibson. A number of B VII Lancasters in storage were modified to the original configuration of the B III (Special) for use on screen.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: A 1989 British commercial for Carling Black Label lager reused Avro Lancaster footage in a Dam Busters parody sequence where a German soldier on top of a dam catches the Lancaster's bombs like a football goalkeeper. The pilot of the attacking Lancaster then delivers the brand slogan: "I bet he drinks Carling Black Label!" The commercial ran for many years, frequently appearing in commercial breaks during broadcasts of both "The Dam Busters" and documentaries about Operation Chastise.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: Len Deighton's 1970 novel "Bomber" describes an attack by Royal Air Force Lancasters on Krefeld, Germany, during which a series of unplanned incidents leads to the carpet bombing of a small town nearby.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The Avro Lancaster was also featured in the UK television series "Pathfinders", aired in 1972, concentrating on the lives of the aircrew of a fictional Pathfinder squadron during the Second World War.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The 2019 budget independent film "Lancaster Skies" (also titled "Our Shining Sword") centres on a loner who takes over as leader of a Lancaster crew.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The Avro Lancaster was the preferred aircraft of the fictional war hero pilot Matt Braddock, who first appeared in the British story paper The Rover, and later in comic strips in British action comics The Victor and Warlord.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: Avro Vulcans are the central feature of the 2008 aviation novel by English author Derek Robinson, titled "Hullo Russia, Goodbye England". A British RAF pilot named Silk, a veteran of Bomber Command in the Second World War, rejoins the service at the height of the Cold War.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The 1965 James Bond film "Thunderball" features the hijacking of an Avro Vulcan for its nuclear bombs.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: A B-1B Lancer was portrayed as the laser weapon's test bed in the closing scenes of the 1985 film "Real Genius".


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit is featured in the 1996 "Independence Day" film, where it fires a nuclear missile at an antagonist alien spaceship. In the movie "Cloverfield", the aircraft bombs a monster that is destroying Manhattan. The bomber also appeared in the films "Iron Man 2", "Captain Marvel", and "Rampage".


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses of the 132nd Bomb Squadron, 9th Bomb Group from March Field, California, ("Land of the Flying Fortress") were featured in the 1941 Paramount Pictures film "I Wanted Wings", based on the novel of the same title by 1st Lt. Beirne Lay Jr.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: In William Wyler's 1946 film "The Best Years of Our Lives", B-17s are prominently featured. The primary male characters hitch a cross country ride in a B-17E Flying Fortress early in the story, and at the conclusion the scrapyard at Chino, California, is shown full of disposal B-17s and YB-40 gunship versions of the B-17.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: B-17s also figured prominently in the Oscar-winning 1949 film "Twelve O'Clock High" starring Gregory Peck. The film concerns aviation leadership and the human toll in the USAAF strategy of daylight precision bombing. The US Air Force cooperated in the production of the film, lending aircraft to the producers and allowing filming at Eglin Air Force Base and at Ozark Army Air Field. The film featured an actual crash landing of a B-17, piloted by veteran stunt pilot Paul Mantz.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: B-17s appear in the 1951 novel "The Sun is Silent" by Saul Levitt which traces the journey of a B-17 crew from their training through to daylight bombing missions over Germany. The author himself had served as a radioman/gunner in a B-17 during the war.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: For the 1954 film "The Glenn Miller Story", directed by Anthony Mann, a wartime performance set in a UK air base hangar was shot in Hangar No. 1 at Lowry Air Force Base, Colorado, on 10 July 1953, with the late-production B-17G command aircraft of Gen. John G. Sprague, commanding officer of Lowry, as a backdrop. It received a wartime coat of olive drab paint for the appearance, but the chin turret was removed. Anachronistic B-29 engine cowlings line the back wall of the hangar, although B-29s were not used in the ETO.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: Five flyable B-17s were secured by producer Elmo Williams for use in the filming of the 1970 motion picture "Tora! Tora! Tora!". During filming, one B-17 suffered a landing gear malfunction, forcing it to land on one wheel. Williams ordered a camera crew to film the landing and incorporated the footage into the film's script.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The B-17 Flying Fortress was the subject of the 1990 Warner Bros. film "Memphis Belle". During filming, one of the five vintage B-17s was destroyed in an accidental crash and a second was damaged when an engine cowling detached in flight, tearing a chunk out of the aircraft's tail. There were no injuries in either incident.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: B-17s are the main aircraft featured in two novels depicting fictional characters in the US daylight bombing offensive over Germany and Occupied Europe, American writer Sam Helpert's "A Real Good War" (1997) and UK author Robert Radcliffe's "Under an English Heaven" (2004).


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: For George Lucas' 2012 film "Red Tails" about the 332d Fighter Group, the Tuskegee Airmen, the B-17G "Pink Lady" operated by the "Association Forteresse Toujours Volante", appeared as a 351st Bomb Group aircraft named "Yankee", coded ED-N. Filmed in the Czech Republic in 2010, the film company funding allowed the warbird to fly for an additional year before being retired to museum status. Other Flying Fortresses were rendered through CGI.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: B-17s appear in the 2014 graphic novel mini-series "Castles in the Sky", published by Avatar, written by Garth Ennis and illustrated by Matt Martin & Keith Burns. The story features a gunner named Leonard Wetmore who is one of the crew of the B-17 'Buffalo Gal' during the U.S. daylight bombing offensive against Germany. The story was one of Ennis' War Stories series.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: Douglas B-18 Bolos are prominently featured in the 1943 RKO picture "Bombardier", filmed at Kirtland Field, New Mexico.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: B-24s appear in the 1944 20th Century Fox film "Winged Victory" which was directed by George Cukor and which portrayed cadets undergoing training as aircrew in the U.S. Army Air Forces during WW2. The AAF detached several B-24s to the production, which was filmed at Santa Ana Army Airfield in California.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The novel "Face of a Hero" (1950) tells the story of a B-24 crew operating from an airport in Apulia, Italy, in 1944; it is based on the real experiences of its author, Louis Falstein, who had been a tail gunner on a USAAF B-24. The novel describes in detail the raids of the B-24 bombers on Romania, Yugoslavia, northern Italy, southern France, and Germany.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: B-24s are a central feature in the 1952 novel "Angle of Attack" by Joseph Landon. The story concerns navigator Irwin 'Win' Hellman, whose B-24 is attacked by enemy fighters and badly damaged over Vienna. The B-24's pilot signals to the enemy fliers that he wishes to surrender but Hellman, who is Jewish and dreads being captured alive, believes they can still escape and, with the backing of the other crew, he takes command.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: B-24s appear in the 1957 novel "The Damned Wear Wings" by David Camerer, a work that portrays B-24s of the 473rd Bomb Group based in Italy tasked with bombing the oil refineries at Ploesti, Romania.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The 1961 novel "Goodbye to Some" by Gordon Forbes portrays Lt Carl Iverson, a pilot of a B-24 of VPB-400 US Navy Air Wing, a unit that flies patrols from a base in the Sulu Sea during the Pacific War in WW2.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The story of the "Lady Be Good" inspired a 1970 television movie titled "Sole Survivor", with a North American B-25 Mitchell playing the B-24D role.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: In the young adult novel "Under a War-Torn Sky", the main character Henry Forester co-pilots "Out of the Blue", a US B-24 Liberator serving in the Royal Air Force.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: B-24s appear in the 1979 novel "The White Sea Bird" by David Beaty, a story about an RAF bomber unit whose commander becomes obsessed with hunting a German surface raider lurking in a secret base in a Norwegian Fjord and menacing Allied convoys at sea.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: B-24s are a major feature of the 1979 novel "Rider on the Wind" by David Westheimer. The novel portrays a B-24 pilot of the USAAF stationed in Palestine during the Second World War and who meets a Jewish resistance-fighter. The author himself served as a navigator in a B-24 with the 98th Bomb Group stationed in Palestine & Egypt in 1942.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The North American B-25 Mitchell had feature roles in the films "Thirty Seconds over Tokyo" (1944) (pilot Ted Lawson's account of the Doolittle Raid), "Hanover Street" (1979) based on a fictional B-25 unit stationed in England, and "Forever Young" (1992), following a B-25 test pilot's story both in the past and present.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: A B-25 features in the 1965 World War II film "In Harm's Way" directed by Otto Preminger and starring John Wayne and Kirk Douglas.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: "The Sole Survivor", a 1970 telemovie, was also based loosely on the "Lady Be Good", and also featured a B-25 in the Liberator role. It first aired 9 January 1970.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The B-25 is featured in the 1970 Mike Nichols film "Catch-22", which had 17 film unit B-25s in flying condition. Like the "Battle of Britain"s resurrection and ultimate preservation of German and British aviation combatants, the "Catch-22" air force helped form a nucleus of the nascent warbirds movement. Fifteen of the 18 bombers used in the film still remain intact, including one on display at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: B-25s appear in the 1976 novel "Whip" by Martin Caidin, which portrays a B-25 unit based in Australia and commanded by Captain 'Whip' Russell and they are employed in low-level bombing missions against Japanese convoys carrying reinforcements to Guadalcanal and Rabaul in 1942.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The B-25 was the focus of the second half of the 2001 film "Pearl Harbor", although critics complained that the bomber and its role were being depicted inaccurately.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The bulk of the action in Craig Johnson's 2013 novel "Spirit of Steamboat" takes place on an old Mitchell VB-25J nicknamed "Steamboat", as it is flown through a snowstorm on a rescue mission over the Great Plains.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: B-25s appear in the 2019 Hulu mini-series "Catch-22" directed by George Clooney. Two vintage B-25s were used in the production and other B-25s were re-created with CGI.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The Boeing B-29 Superfortress has played an important role in several Hollywood films, particularly the "Enola Gay", which dropped the first atomic bomb. The Enola Gay was depicted in "Above and Beyond" and "The Beginning or the End".


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The first Hollywood retelling of the 509th Composite Group's preparation for the atomic missions was "Above and Beyond", released by MGM in 1953, with Robert Taylor portraying Col. Paul Tibbetts, and Jim Backus as Gen. Curtis LeMay. Filmed at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: Film makers also used the only B-29 still flying in 1983 in the film "The Right Stuff" to recreate the launch of the Bell X-1 for the first supersonic flight.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The Convair B-36 featured prominently in Paramount's 1955 film "Strategic Air Command" starring James Stewart, who plays a World War II bomber pilot and member of the Air Force Reserve and is forced to crash land in the Arctic. The film features many good aerial shots of B-36s and was primarily filmed at Carswell AFB, Texas, and MacDill AFB in Tampa, Florida, and Al Lang Field in nearby St. Petersburg, Florida. One particularly difficult shot was that of Stewart's character, a baseball player, standing on the baseball field at Al Lang Field while a B-36 flies overhead and casts a shadow over him, foreshadowing his imminent recall to active service.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The Boeing B-47 Stratojet gets a secondary role in Paramount's 1955 film "Strategic Air Command" (SAC), starring James Stewart, as the new jet that is nothing like the old Convair B-36 he is used to. The film features good aerial footage of both the B-47 and the B-36. The majority of B-47 scenes were filmed at MacDill Air Force Base, Florida, using aircraft from the 306th Bombardment Wing.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: Ejection seat testing of B-47s performed at Eglin AFB, Florida, in 1953 and 1954 as part of aeromedical research was recreated in the 1955 20th Century Fox film "On the Threshold of Space" starring Guy Madison, and in a 1957 Pine-Thomas Productions drama "Bailout at 43,000".


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The 1957 Warner Brothers melodrama film "Bombers B-52" features Castle Air Force Base, proudly sporting its slogan "Home of the B-47", and its transition from the Stratojet to the new B-52.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The 1963 film "A Gathering of Eagles" focuses on the stresses of a B-52 wing commander at the height of the Cold War. Some excellent visuals of the B-52 including a complex inflight refueling operation which nearly ends in disaster.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The B-52 was also a key part of Stanley Kubrick's 1964 black comedy film "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb".


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: A B-52 was a focal point of the 1983 novel "Trinity's Child", by William Prochnau, and the 1990 telemovie adaptation, "By Dawn's Early Light".


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The 1950s syndicated American television series "Whirlybirds", produced by Desilu Studios, starred a pair of Bell 47 helicopters. The association with "Whirlybirds" continues to be used to promote helicopters and the Bell 47 in particular. A Bell 47 was also one of the 'stars' of the Australian television series "Skippy the Bush Kangaroo".


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: In the opening scenes of Federico Fellini's 1960 comedy-drama film "La Dolce Vita" a Bell 47 transports a statue of Christ across the city of Rome. A second Bell 47 in pursuit contains the reporter Marcello Rubini (Marcello Mastroianni) and his sidekick Papparazo.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: A Bell 47J equipped with floats was used in the 1965 James Bond film "Thunderball". The helicopter lands on the water as Bond searches for an Avro Vulcan bomber that has gone missing.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: A Bell 47G3B-1 was used as the "Batcopter" in the 1966 "Batman" film. This airframe had previously appeared in "Lassie Come Home".


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: A Bell 47 depicted a supposed German helicopter in the 1968 action film "Where Eagles Dare". Although experimental German helicopter types did exist in this time period, the Focke-Achgelis Fa 223 was a larger, twin-rotor machine, which was used on only a limited basis.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The Bell 47, in its military configuration as a H-13 Sioux regularly appeared in the "M*A*S*H" film (1970) and television series (1972-1983).


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: In the 1979 Norman Jewison film "...And Justice For All", the main characters go for a ride in a Bell 47G-2 that ends up ditching in Baltimore's Inner Harbor when it runs out of fuel.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: "Chopper Squad" was a 1970s Australian television series about a Bell 206 JetRanger used for rescue work in Sydney. The helicopter used was an actual rescue helicopter operated by the Westpac Life Saver Rescue Helicopter Service.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: A Bell 206B was one of the helicopters that attacks the oil rig control center of Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the climactic scenes of the 1971 James Bond film "Diamonds Are Forever". The Jet Ranger also appeared in the 1977 Bond film "The Spy Who Loved Me"


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: In the 1983 film "Blue Thunder", a Jet Ranger is portrayed as a LAPD helicopter flying for the Astro division. Also appears in the 1991 film "", as another LAPD helicopter, which is stolen by the T-1000 Terminator and flown under an expressway to pursue John Connor, Sarah Connor and the T-800 Terminator protecting them.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: A Bell 222A was featured in the telemovie "Airwolf", which starred Jan-Michael Vincent and Ernest Borgnine. Within the year, the film was made into a TV series which aired from 1984 to 1986.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: In the 1991 film "Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man", a Bell 222UT is used to eliminate the antagonists in a high rise building near downtown Los Angeles.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: In the 1990 film "Fire Birds", a Bell AH-1 Cobra of the United States Army emerges in the opening sequence, when it is ambushed by a drug runner's Scorpion helicopter portrayed by a McDonnell Douglas MD 500 Defender.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: A pair of AH-1s appear in Simon West's 1997 film "Con Air". The helicopters are used in an attempt to bring down a hijacked Justice Prisoner and Alien Transportation System (JPATS) aircraft.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: In J. J. Abrams 2006 film "", the Impossible Missions Force (IMF) team use a Bell 204 to escape after rescuing one of their team members. They must evade an AH-1 Cobra, which pursues them through a wind farm, firing heat seeking rockets at them.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The Bell UH-1 Iroquois (commonly called the Huey) was the most common helicopter during the Vietnam War, as an aircraft used to insert and remove troops from the field, transport casualties for medical treatment and as a gunship. As such, it has appeared in many works of fiction related to the war.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The UH-1 was an important part of the 1968 film "The Green Berets". The production company paid $18,623.64 for the material, the eighty-five hours of flying time by UH-1 helicopters, and thirty-eight hundred man-days for military personnel taken away from their regular duties.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: Two UH-1H Hueys make up part of the attack package on Ernst Stavro Blofeld's oil rig command center at the climax of the 1971 James Bond film "Diamonds Are Forever".


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The UH-1 was in Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 film "Apocalypse Now". Several Hueys were rented from the Philippine Air Force. The distinct and iconic sound of the helicopters was featured prominently in the film's sound design of the soundtrack.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The 1990 film "Air America", about the CIA's proprietary airline during the war in Southeast Asia, featured the ubiquitous Huey helicopter.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: A Bell 205 is used as a mountain rescue helicopter in the 1993 film "Cliffhanger". The aircraft is used to locate a missing jet and then employed to find stolen money. Towards the film's end the helicopter is dangling upside down against a cliff, where the hero (Sylvester Stallone) and villain (John Lithgow) brawl on the belly of the aircraft.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The UH-1 is a central part of the 2002 Vietnam war film "We Were Soldiers". The helicopter is shown ferrying troops into the Ia Drang valley as part of the then-new concept of air cavalry. The film particularly focused on the flights of Major Bruce Crandall, who was later awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions while piloting his UH-1 during the battle depicted in the film. Four of the UH-1s used were provided by the Georgia Army National Guard.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The slaying of Israeli athletes by Black September terrorists and the destruction of a "Bundesgrenzschutz" Bell/Dornier UH-1D during the 1972 Summer Olympics was depicted in the 2005 Steven Spielberg film "Munich".


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: UH-1 helicopters are seen as the primary transport aircraft in the 2017 film "", and are attacked by Kong after launching seismic bombs in an attempt to map the Island's caves.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The Bell X-1 was depicted early in the film "The Right Stuff". The film showed the historic flight of the X-1 becoming the first aircraft to break the sound barrier in level flight under its own propulsion. This achievement helped usher in the US space program that was the subject of the rest of the film. A mock-up built for the film is now displayed at the Planes of Fame Museum, Chino, California.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: A Bell X-2 mock-up was built for the pilot-film of the TV series "Quantum Leap". It is now on display at the Planes of Fame Museum, Chino, California.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The 1936 movie "13 Hours by Air" takes place largely aboard a transcontinental Boeing 247 flight and includes significant historically interesting second-unit footage of actual terminal facilities on United Air Lines's then-new transcontinental route network.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The 1961 episode "The Odyssey of Flight 33" of television series "The Twilight Zone" takes place on a Boeing 707 with the aircraft traveling through various periods of history.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: A Boeing 707-349C leased from Flying Tiger Line portrayed two aircraft in the 1970 film "Airport", based on the 1968 Arthur Hailey novel of the same name.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The Boeing 707 is featured as the titular aircraft in "Airplane!", a 1980 disaster-parody film by Jon Davison.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: In 2011, the American television series "Pan Am" took place in the early and mid-1960s and featured interior sets and exterior CGI representations of the 707 on the ground and in flight; it was Pan Am's flagship airliner during that time. Additional footage of John Travolta's Boeing 707 in Pan Am livery has also been used in the TV series.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: In Alistair Maclean's "Air Force One Is Down" (1983), a master criminal plans to steal Air Force One (then a 707) humiliate POTUS Warren G. Wheeler, and blows up a cargo-carrier 707 painted like it to effect the plan.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: Industrial Light and Magic constructed a large-scale model of a Boeing 727 of fibreglass and aluminum for use in the 1990 action film "Die Hard 2".


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The 1996 film "Eraser" includes an elaborate action sequence involving a parachute jump from a crippled Boeing 727.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The 1998 film "U.S. Marshals" depicts the crash of a 727 from the Justice Prisoner and Alien Transportation System (JPATS).


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: In the 2008 TV series "Breaking Bad", the mid-air crash between two Boeing 737 over Albuquerque, referred as the Wayfarer 515 disaster, takes an important part in the plot. Because of it, this model is featured and mentioned several times during the second season. Also, the episode "Seven Thirty-Seven" is named for the aircraft; it is the first of several episode titles that collectively foreshadow the Wayfarer 515 disaster. When placed together, they read "Seven Thirty-Seven Down Over ABQ".


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: A redressed Boeing 747 of American Airlines was featured extensively in the 1974 film "Airport 1975", and the sequel "Airport 77".


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The 1983 TBS drama series " (Stewardess Monogatari - A Stewardess’ Tale)" focuses on 19 year old Chiaki Matsumoto (played by Chiemi Hori) and her path to become a Japan Airlines flight attendant. The series was filmed in cooperation with JAL, which allowed filming at their actual base at Narita International Airport. Many shots are filmed of 747 revenue flights at Narita, and a few episodes were produced inside the maintenance hangar as Chiaki and her classmates perform various training classes and exercises to learn about the aircraft. JA8161 was used extensively throughout production and JA8110 is featured in the opening credits.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: In the 1990 action film "Die Hard 2", a 747 that has been hijacked by terrorists is destroyed by John McClane. Three 23-foot models were fabricated by Industrial Light and Magic with one destroyed during filming done at a remote airstrip in the Mojave Desert of California. The effects were matched to a real 747 filmed taxiing at Alpena, Michigan. The cost of the special effects pushed the film's production costs towards the then-record of $70 million.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: A 747-212B, rented from Kalitta Air, was the title subject of the 1997 film "Air Force One", portraying the real 747-200-based VC-25 that transports the US president.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The 747 was also prominent in the novel and the 2002 film "The Sum of All Fears" as the National Airborne Operations Center during a nuclear showdown with Russia.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: A 747 in-flight is also the setting for the 2006 horror-thriller film "Snakes on a Plane" in which a large number of venomous snakes wriggle loose on the large jet.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: A Boeing 757 is the setting of the 2006 film "United 93", that is based on the events on board United Airlines Flight 93 which was hijacked during the September 11 attacks in 2001.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: An Air New Zealand Boeing 767-200 was featured in the 1993 TV movie "", whereby its crew lead a lost Cessna 188 to a safe landing place. The movie is based on the Cessna 188 Pacific rescue that took place in 1978. The plane in the actual rescue was a McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 and the Boeing 767 was not introduced into Air New Zealand's fleet until 1985.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The Boeing 767 is the setting of the 2014 action film "Non-Stop" in which a killer onboard is executing the aircraft's passengers and crew.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: A modified Boeing 777 was used as the United States Air Force mothership for an experimental NASA spaceplane in the 2006 film "Superman Returns".


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: In 1950, Paul Mantz tore the wings off a Boeing PT-13D (Model 75) Stearman by flying between two oaks for the 1950 film "When Willie Comes Marching Home". A crop-dusting Stearman, N6340, was featured early in the 1963 Elvis Presley film "It Happened at the World's Fair".


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: A Boeing Stearman appears in the climactic scene of the Disney Sci-Fi film "The Cat from Outer Space" (1978). The scene involves a mid-air transfer of characters between the Stearman and a Gazelle helicopter. The Stearman is a wreck but is flown by the powers of the magic necklace belonging to the cat Jake.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: More recently, Model 75s have appeared in a number of films including "Independence Day" (1996), "The English Patient" (1997), and "Pearl Harbor" (2001).


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: Comics writer Garth Ennis' 2007 revival of the old British war comic hero "Battler Britton: Bloody Good Show", featured the ace fighter pilot commanding a squadron of Bristol Beaufighters in North Africa during the Second World War.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: Bristol Blenheims appear in the 1945 British film "The Way to the Stars" (released in the US as "Johnny in the Clouds"). In the early part of the film, Pilot Officer Peter Penrose (John Mills), a '15-hour sprog' (rookie) arrives at Halfpenny Field, a Royal Air-Force aerodrome, in the summer of 1940 and joins B-Flight of No 72 Squadron, equipped with Blenheims and commanded by Flight-Lieutenant David Archdale (Michael Redgrave).


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: A Bristol Blenheim IV, restored from a Bolingbroke IVT, appeared in the 1995 film "Richard III", an adaptation of Shakespeare's play directed by and starring Ian McKellen; who set the play in an imaginary 1930s England ruled by a fascist-style Monarch.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: A Bristol Type 175 Britannia airliner was the central feature of the 1959 film "Jet Over the Atlantic" (also released as "High Over the Atlantic"), a drama directed by Byron Haskin and starring Guy Madison and Virginia Mayo. The film's plot is about an airliner en route from Spain to the United States. Among the passengers is an American who has been arrested for murder and is being extradited back to the US. Another passenger, rendered mentally unstable by the loss of his daughter, releases a toxic gas on board the aircraft, rendering the flight crew unconscious, leaving the prisoner as the only person capable of flying the aircraft. Despite the film's title, the Bristol Type 175 was a turbo-prop engined aircraft rather than a jet-powered plane.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: In the long-running British First World War comic strip "Charley's War", published in "Battle Picture Weekly" 1979–1986 and written by Pat Mills and illustrated by Joe Colquhoun, the storyline goes on a tangent when Charley Bourne's younger brother Wilf enlists under-age and becomes an observer/gunner in a Bristol F2B squadron in France in early 1918.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: A replica Bristol F2B mounted on skis was featured in the 1981 film "Death Hunt" which starred Charles Bronson and Lee Marvin. The replica, which was constructed in the US and had an inverted Ford Ranger engine instead of a Rolls-Royce, was originally commissioned in 1979 to appear in the film "High Road to China" (1983), but was not used in that production.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The fictional RFC unit featured in Derek Robinson's 1999 novel "Hornet's Sting", set in 1917 over the Western Front, exchange their outdated Sopwith Pups for the new Bristol F2Bs.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: A flying replica of a Bristol Tourer, a civil utility biplane developed from the Bristol F2B, appeared in the 1985 Australian TV mini-series "A Thousand Skies", a dramatisation of the career of famous Australian aviator Charles Kingsford-Smith.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: A Bristol Type 170 Freighter Mk. 11A played a major role in the 1957 British film "The Man in the Sky" directed by Charles Crichton and starring Jack Hawkins who played a test pilot. A major sequence of the film features Hawkins testing a Bristol Type 170 when one of the engines catches fire and he has to stay aloft long enough to use up enough fuel to make an emergency landing with one engine and one wheel. The film was distributed in the US under the title "Decision Against Time". The Bristol Freighter that starred in the film was damaged in a crash during filming. After repairs it returned to service with Silver City Airways until it was retired and scrapped in 1962.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: A BN-2 Islander features in the 2015 James Bond film "Spectre". Bond pilots the plane through the Austrian Alps to rescue Madeleine Swann from Spectre gang members.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: In the 1963 epic film "The Great Escape", the prisoners of war played by James Garner and Donald Pleasence steal a "Luftwaffe" Bücker Bü 181, a plot invention for the movie. In the actual escape from Stalag Luft III, no aircraft were involved. Pleasence, an aircraft wireless operator with No. 166 Squadron, however, was imprisoned in Stalag Luft I after his Lancaster was shot down over Germany on 31 August 1944.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: A Grumman C-2A Greyhound appears in the 2003 film "Tears of the Sun". A SEAL team performs a parachute jump from it to begin a mission in Nigeria.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: Tom Cruise is seen performing a HALO jump out of the back of a Boeing C-17 Globemaster III belonging to the UAE Air Force in the 2018 film .


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: A heavily modified version of a C-17 serves as the basis of the "Bus" seen in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D..


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: A ski-equipped Douglas C-47 Skytrain is featured in Howard Hawks' 1951 science-fiction thriller, "The Thing From Another World", based on the 1938 novella "Who Goes There?" by John W. Campbell, Jr.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: In the 1955 British film "The Night My Number Came Up" directed by Leslie Norman and starring Michael Redgrave and Denholm Elliott, a man tells guests at a dinner party of a dream he had of a Tokyo-bound Dakota that crashes in the Japanese mountains. Some of the guests board such a flight the next day and they begin to fear the dream is coming true.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: Eleven aircraft were gathered for airdrop scenes in the 1977 film "A Bridge Too Far", all of which had to be of a paratroop configuration, representing the C-53 Skytrooper variant.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: A Douglas C-47 DL Skytrain featured in the climactic scenes of the 1982 film "The Wild Geese" which starred Richard Burton and Roger Moore as the leaders of a group of British mercenaries sent to rescue a deposed African leader. The C-47 used in the film belonged to United Air of South Africa and was nick-named 'The Wild Goose' after its film role. The aircraft was destroyed in a crash in South Africa in 1988 which claimed the lives of all 24 people on board.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The 20th Century Fox production "The Big Lift" (originally titled "Quartered City"), set during the Berlin Airlift, was filmed in Berlin at a former German studio near Tempelhof in 1949 and Douglas C-54 Skymasters were prominently featured. Military personnel from Rhein-Main Air Base appeared as extras.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The crash of a Fairchild C-82 Packet in the North African desert is central to the plot of the 1965 film "The Flight of the Phoenix" drawn from a 1964 novel by Elleston Trevor of the same title.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar was the subject of the 2004 remake of "Flight of the Phoenix", using the descendant design of the C-82 Packet of the original.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: Lockheed C-121A Constellation tail number "48-615" was used in the 1977 film "MacArthur", starring Gregory Peck, painted in Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers (SCAP) markings.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: In the 1990 action film "Die Hard 2", John McClane ejects from the cockpit of a grounded Fairchild C-123 Provider for a parachute recovery just before terrorists destroy it. A full-scale fuselage mock-up, molded from a real Provider, was rigged with 3,000 bullet hits, each one drilled and loaded with a charge, tapped, and wired to discharge in sequence. Actual pyrotechnics work was done at Indian Dunes, California, with actor Bruce Willis' ejection composited into the shot later.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The 1990 film "Air America" loosely recounted the exploits of the Central Intelligence Agency proprietary airline in Southeast Asia in the 1960s and early 1970s and featured Fairchild C-123K Providers leased from the Royal Thai Air Force.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The C-123 was featured in the 1997 film "Con Air", with much of the film's action taking place in and around the aircraft. Three C-123s were used in the production of the film. One aircraft was used for all of the flying sequences. Another was used for the taxiing scenes and the third Provider, non-airworthy and in poor condition, was dismantled and its fuselage used for the filming of the climatic crash scene.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The 1976 film "Raid on Entebbe" was based on a real-life Israeli military rescue mission which relied on the unique short-field capabilities of the C-130.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The 1986 film "The Delta Force" featured a C-130 for the crew of the Delta Force.The C-130 at the end of the film has a tail number of 4X-FBB. This is the number of a C-130H flown by the Israeli Air Force. -FBB is former USAF 71-1375, delivered to IAF in October or November of 1971.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: In the place of a Soviet transport plane, a Lockheed C-130 Hercules (or Lockheed L-100 Hercules civilian model in military markings) was featured in the 1987 James Bond film "The Living Daylights"; a C-123K Provider was used for some tail ramp fight scene close-ups.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The special operations variant, the Lockheed MC-130 Combat Talon, was featured as the rescue aircraft in the 1997 film "Air Force One", performing a daring mid-air rescue of the President and his family as Air Force One is failing and going into the water.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: In the 2007 film "Transformers" a close air support variant of the C-130, the AC-130 gunship, is used to drive off the Decepticons after the military base in Qatar is attacked, by executing a pylon turn to deliver ground fire.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: In the 2007 game "", the player uses an AC-130H for support. The AC-130H is also playable during the mission "Death from Above".


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: In the 2013 film "Olympus Has Fallen", a C-130 armed with multi-barrel cannons attacks Washington, D.C. and shoots down two USAF F-22 Raptor fighters sent to intercept it. The C-130 is shot down by another F-22 and crashes into the Washington Monument, causing part of it to collapse.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: In the 2013 film "Lone Survivor", an AC-130 variant provides firepower as Luttrell is extracted from the village towards the end of the film.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The 2020 film Operation Christmas Drop, a romantic comedy loosely based on the actual annual USAF humanitarian mission of the same name, features Alexander Ludwig as a C-130 pilot as he prepares and conducts the long-running mission in his C-130J.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: A restored Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation Wirraway, an Australian production variant of the North American NA-16 Harvard, appeared in the beach landing scenes in the 1998 war film "The Thin Red Line" directed by Terrence Malick and based on the 1962 James Jones novel of the same name. In the film, the aircraft is painted to depict a Douglas SBD Dauntless dive-bomber.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The Capelis XC-12, an unsuccessful 1933 transport design, appears in the 1939 film "Five Came Back", as a bomber in the 1942 Republic film "Flying Tigers" and the 1943 film "Immortal Sergeant".


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The Caproni Ca.60 Noviplano, a nine-wing flying boat of which only a single prototype was constructed and which crashed on its first test flight in 1921, features in the 2013 Japanese animated feature "The Wind Rises", a romantic dramatization of the life of Japanese aircraft designer Jiro Horikoshi. In the film, the Italian aeronautical designer Giovanni Caproni appears as a mentor to Horikoshi in several dream sequences, one of which features a tour of the Ca.60.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: Several ex-Spanish Air Force CASA 2.111s were used as "stand-ins" to depict German Heinkel He 111 bombers in the 1969 film "Battle of Britain".


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: Four ex-Spanish CASA 2.111s, playing the role of Luftwaffe Heinkel He 111s, were also used in the production of the 1970 Oscar-winning film "Patton", starring George C. Scott.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: A Caudron 277 was used to play the role of both British and German two-seaters in the 1966 First World War aerial epic "The Blue Max" directed by John Guillermin and based on the 1964 novel of the same name by Jack D. Hunter.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The protagonist of the 1950s American television show "Sky King", played by actor Kirby Grant, flew a Cessna 310 in later episodes.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: A Cessna 402, operated by the fictional small airline Sandpiper Air at Tom Nevers Field airport, Nantucket, was featured in the NBC-TV sitcom "Wings" which ran for eight seasons, 1990–1997.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The protagonist of the 1950s television show "Sky King" flew a Cessna T-50 in early episodes; the aircraft was later replaced by a Cessna 310.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: Crashed WACO CG-4A gliders of the 99th Troop Carrier Squadron were depicted by replicas in the film "Saving Private Ryan". These were recreated using measurements taken from a surviving example at the Museum of Army Flying, Middle Wallop, Hampshire, England.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: A surplus US Army Sikorsky S-58DT (a converted UH-34D) was prominently featured as "Screaming Mimi" in the 1984–86 television series "Riptide", and remains in service.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: Westland Wessex helicopters portrayed CH-34 Choctaws in Stanley Kubrick's 1987 film "Full Metal Jacket".


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: Turbine-repowered Sikorsky S-58Ts portrayed CH-34 Choctaws in the 1990 film "Air America" about the exploits of the Central Intelligence Agency proprietary airline during the war in Southeast Asia.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: In the 1967 James Bond film "You Only Live Twice" a KV-107 has an electromagnet slung loaded underneath, and is used to airlift an antagonist's car off the road, thereby freeing up 007 from their pursuit.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: A Kawasaki-built KV-107 portrays a UH-46 Sea Knight of the United States Navy that airlifts a team of hijackers aboard the in the 1992 film "Under Siege", and is later depicted being blown up on the ship's fantail. Filming was done aboard the museum ship.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: In the 2000 film "Rules of Engagement" two Boeing-Vertol 234 Chinook helicopters are portrayed as Boeing Vertol CH-46 Sea Knights of the United States Marine Corps. The helicopters transport a rescue team to evacuate personal from a fallen embassy in Yemen.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: A CH-47D performs the rescue mission by pulling up a wrecked Super Puma in the film "Rescue Under Fire".


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: Starting in 2007, the Cirrus SR22 became one of two aircraft (along with the F-16 Fighting Falcon) to be featured in Google Earth Flight Simulator.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The SR22 was also featured in the final scene of the 2010 romantic comedy film "She's Out of My League".


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The Concorde was the title aircraft and star of the 1979 film "The Concorde ... Airport '79" in which it was flown primarily by Alain Delon and George Kennedy's characters. The aircraft used crashed twenty one years later as Air France Flight 4590, killing all 109 people on board and four on the ground.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: In the 1982 episode "Time-Flight" of the BBC sci fi series "Doctor Who" a Concorde, its passengers, and crew are pulled through time to a prehistoric version of Earth.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: In the 2010 Charles Stross novel "The Fuller Memorandum", the occult arm of the British government maintains four Concordes for use as supersonic reconnaissance aircraft to monitor the Sleeper in the Pyramid. In the event of the Black Pharaoh awakening, the Concordes are to be used as nuclear bombers to attempt to contain the threat before it manifests on Earth.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: In the 2017 film "The Wife", two significant scenes, including the final one in the movie, take place on Concorde flights transporting a Nobel Prize winner. They were shot in the aircraft displayed at Scotland's National Museum of Flight.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: United States Navy Consolidated NY trainers from Floyd Bennett Field appeared as some of the biplanes that attack King Kong atop the Empire State Building in the 1933 original film.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The Convair XF-92, an experimental delta-wing interceptor, played the role of an F-102 Delta Dagger in the 1956 film "Toward the Unknown" starring William Holden.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: A pair of Curtiss JN-4 Jenny biplanes featured in the 1919 silent film "The Grim Game" which starred Harry Houdini. In the film, the script originally called for a mid-air transfer of one of the characters between the two Jennys but while filming the scene, the two aircraft collided. Both pilots managed to safely crash-land and there were no injuries. The producers subsequently altered the script and incorporated the footage into the final cut.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: A Curtiss JN-4 featured in the 1921 silent film "Stranger than Fiction" which starred Katherine MacDonald. The Jenny features in a major sequence in which the aircraft takes off from the roof of a 10-storey building in downtown Los Angeles. To film the scene, stunt pilot Frank Clarke took off from a wooden ramp. Prior to launching, the Jenny was fixed to an anchor with a rope which was cut after Clarke revved the engine to full power. Nonetheless, the Jenny dropped five storeys before Clarke was able to level out and fly along the length of Broadway street. It is not known if the producers asked permission from city officials prior to performing the stunt.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: A pair of JN-4s also featured in the 1925 film "The Cloud Rider". In one major scene, one of the Jennys flown by the film's female lead (played by Virginia Lee Corbin) loses a wheel (her plane having been sabotaged by the film's villains) and has to be assisted mid-air by the male lead (played by Al Wilson) who has another JN-4 pilot fly him alongside so he can climb onto the former's wing to render assistance. To film the scene, pilot Frank Clarke wore a wig to resemble the actress and after the aerial shots were completed, he was required to safely land his JN-4 with only one wheel.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: A JN-4 appeared in the 1926 film "The Woman with Four Faces" directed by Herbert Brenon. Once again, Frank Clarke was employed as a stunt pilot. For one scene, he was required to double as the male lead and, while landing his aircraft, wave at actress Betty Compson. However, when Clarke took his eyes off the runway, his Jenny crashed into a tree but the pilot escaped without injury.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The rare US Marine Corps Curtiss RC-1 air ambulance, made an appearance in the 1935 Warner Bros. film "Devil Dogs of the Air" starring James Cagney and Pat O'Brien.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The Dassault Mirage 2000 is prominently featured in the 2005 French movie Sky Fighters ("Les Chevaliers du ciel") about two air force pilots preventing a terrorist attack on the Bastille Day celebrations in Paris.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The 1982 film "Mother Lode" made use of a de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver on floats as the neglected mount of character Jean Dupré (Nick Mancuso), who embarks on a search for a missing friend in northern British Columbia. During the filming the aircraft actually crashed while landing on a lake and sank. This accident was not in the original script, but the footage was retained and incorporated into the film's plot. The aircraft was recovered from the lake, repaired, restored and exported to the US.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The DHC-2 was central to the 1998 film "Six Days Seven Nights". The actual flying in the film was done by its star, Harrison Ford, who enjoyed flying the Beaver so much that he bought one after filming was completed. Three flying Beavers and four non-flyable were used in the production, all detailed to exactly match one another.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The de Havilland Comet airliner is featured in the 1952 British film "The Sound Barrier". A Comet also appeared in the 1977 British film "Are You Being Served?".


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The 1927 William Wellman film "Wings" featured de Havilland DH.4s among many types depicting World War I aircraft.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: A de Havilland DH.9 featured in the 1928 film "The Legion of the Condemned" which was directed by William A. Wellman and starred Gary Cooper. The film portrayed an RFC pilot named Gale Price (Cooper) who, heartbroken over what he believes to be his unrequited love for a French woman, volunteers for a special unit tasked with flying dangerous missions during the Great War. However, during a mission behind German lines, Price discovers the woman Christine is working as an Allied spy and is still in love with him. In the film, Price lands a DH.9 in enemy territory to rescue Christine from her German captors. The film also made extensive use of leftover aerial footage from "Wings" which Wellman had directed the previous year.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: "Grosvenor House" and "Black Magic", together with their crews, feature prominently in a 1990 TV two-part Australian dramatisation of the 1934 London to Melbourne MacRobertson Trophy Air Race, titled "Half a World Away" and later released on DVD as "The Great Air Race". Non-flying replicas were constructed, that of G-ACSS being taxi-able.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: A DH.88 Comet named Bulldog and voiced by John Cleese is one of the characters in Disney's 2013 animated film "Planes".


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The de Havilland Dragon Rapide VH-BGP portrayed Rapide, ZK-ACO, "Tainui", race number 60, in the 1991 Australian mini-series "The Great Air Race", about the 1934 London to Melbourne MacRobertson Trophy Air Race. It is also known as "Half a World Away".


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: A de Havilland DH-89A Dragon Rapide 6 featured in the episode "Out of Time" in Season 1 (2006) of the BBC sci-fi series "Torchwood". The episode features a DH-89 carrying three occupants, landing at Cardiff airport in the present day after being mysteriously transported in time from 1953.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The 1951 novel "Round the Bend" by Nevil Shute is the story of two men, both British Licensed Aircraft Engineers. A large number of different aircraft types, both fictitious and real, appear in the book. The narrator and one of the protagonists of the story is Tom Cutter, and the novel details his efforts to establish an air charter business in Bahrain immediately after World War II. His first aircraft is a de Havilland Fox Moth; it is later joined by several other aircraft as the business expands, mostly fictitious, but among them a Percival Proctor.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The novel "Hornet Flight" by Ken Follett is a thriller of the Resistance against the Nazi occupation of Denmark in World War II. In the novel a de Havilland Hornet Moth is used by the protagonists to fly from Denmark to the United Kingdom with information about a German radar system. The author drew inspiration from an actual flight that took place during World War II.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: In the 1954 British film "The Purple Plain" with Gregory Peck, a Canadian Second World War pilot crashes a de Havilland Mosquito on the Burma plain and struggles to survive. Two flying Mosquito PR.34s from No. 81 Squadron RAF, Seletar, Singapore, and a "disused" T.3, which arrived in pieces at the film site at Negombo, Ceylon to represent the wrecked aircraft, were used in filming, all with fictional serial numbers. Flt. Sgt. (later Squadron Leader) "Chick" Kirkham flew for the flight sequences shot from a Harvard camera ship. The film received two nominations for the British Academy Awards.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: Mosquitos are featured prominently in "The Adventures of Tintin" 1958 comic book album "The Red Sea Sharks". They drive the plot in various ways, first as war-surplus equipment offered for sale by an arms dealer early in the story, and later in combat.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The military unit in the 1964 film "633 Squadron" is equipped with de Havilland Mosquitos. The film makes use of genuine, airworthy aircraft, rather than models, for many of the scenes.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: Mosquitos also play the title role of the 1969 film "Mosquito Squadron", starring David McCallum and Charles Gray.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The Mosquito plays an important role with the de Havilland Vampire in Frederick Forsyth's 1975 novella "The Shepherd".


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: Scott Summers and his younger brother Alex Summers, members of Marvel Comics' X-Men, are orphaned as children after parachuting out of their father's Mosquito when it is set ablaze by an alien attack.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: Mosquitos play a central role in the 2019 graphic novel "Out of the Blue" written by Garth Ennis and illustrated by Keith Burns. The story features a young pilot Jamie Mckenzie who joins a Mosquito fighter-bomber unit of the Royal Air-Force and clashes with his CO.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: A de Havilland Leopard Moth was painted as de Havilland DH.80 Puss Moth, VH-UQO, "My Hildegarde", race number 16, for the 1991 Australian mini-series "The Great Air Race", about the 1934 London to Melbourne MacRobertson Air Race. It is also known as "Half a World Away".


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: A de Havilland DH.82 Tiger Moth appears in the 1952 David Lean film "The Sound Barrier". In the film, Christopher Ridgefield (Denholm Elliott) is killed in a crash while nervously trying to fly his first solo in a Tiger Moth to meet the approval of his stern father Sir John (Ralph Richardson).


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: A Tiger Moth appears in the opening scene of the 1996 film "The English Patient", flying over the Sahara Desert, carrying a man and a woman. The aircraft is shot down in flames, leaving the pilot with horrific burns. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Michael Ondaatje.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: A Tiger Moth, G-ANFM, piloted by former ATA pilot Joan Hughes MBE appears in the 1968 film "Thunderbird 6". During filming, the aircraft was flown under a motorway bridge over the M40 near High Wycombe, resulting in the prosecution of Hughes and the Production Director, Norman Foster.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: de Havilland Vampires appear in the 1954 British motion picture "Conflict of Wings", a drama about the conflict that arises when an RAF squadron based in Norfolk is allocated a small island to use as a range for low-level attack training only to encounter the protests of nearby villagers who want the island preserved as a bird sanctuary.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: Vampires appear in the 1966 novel "Shooting Script" by former RAF pilot and thriller writer Gavin Lyall.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The Vampire is central to the plot of the 1975 novella, "The Shepherd" by British novelist Frederick Forsyth, the story of an RAF pilot attempting to fly home for Christmas from RAF Celle, Germany, to RAF Lakenheath on Christmas Eve 1957. The fact that the DH.100 was not fitted with ejection seats until about ten years later, and hence was a major challenge to bail out of, is an important element of the story.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: Douglas DC-2, PH-AJU, "Uiver", race number 44, was depicted by Douglas DC-3, VH-ANR, in the 1991 Australian mini-series "The Great Air Race", about the 1934 London to Melbourne MacRobertson Trophy Air Race. It is also known as "Half a World Away".


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: A Douglas DC-3A of Central Airlines appears in the 1954 film "Strategic Air Command" as the transport that conveys a security check team into Carswell AFB, Texas.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The 1961 episode of "The Twilight Zone" entitled "The Arrival" features a DC-3 on Flight 107, which arrives at its destination with no one on board. It originally aired 22 September 1961.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The chief character of the 1965 novel "High Citadel" by Desmond Bagley is an alcoholic former Korean War fighter pilot who flies a Douglas DC-3 for a small airline in a fictional Andean country in South America. He is forced at gunpoint by his co-pilot—a Communist agent—to crash-land the DC-3 at a remote abandoned mine in the Andes so that Communists planning a coup can capture and kill a politician travelling as a passenger.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: A DC-3 starred in the 1982 British television series "Airline". The aircraft used to depict the DC-3 of the fictional "Ruskin Air Services" was also used in the 1980s television series "Tenko" and the 2001 series "Band of Brothers".


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: In the 1985 two-part episode of the television series "Magnum, P.I." entitled "All For One", the four main characters (Thomas, Rick, T.C. and Higgins) fly from Hawai'i to Cambodia in a DC-3 (c/n N162E) to carry out a personal mission. Several scenes are filmed both inside and outside of this aircraft.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: In the 1989 comedy film "Major League", the hard-luck Cleveland Indians baseball team is "upgraded" to a DC-3 for their transportation to away games.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: In the 1994 film "Richie Rich", the Rich family own and pilot a DC-3, named "Billion Dollar One", which crashes in the Atlantic due to a bomb on board.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The 2012 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation television series "Arctic Air" features a Yellowknife-based airline that relies on DC-3s.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The 2016 film "Rules Don't Apply" features a DC-3 in two sequences on land and one in air. Howard Hughes pilots the DC-3 in a risky manner while two other passengers are aboard, shutting off the engines in-air and performing a "proper glide".


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The Douglas DC-4 appears in the Ernest K. Gann novel "The High and the Mighty". A former USAF Douglas C-54 Skymaster operated by Transocean Airlines portrayed the Douglas DC-4 in the John Wayne 1954 film of the same name. Ironically, this airframe was lost over the Pacific on 28 March 1964 with an engine fire just as depicted in the film. There were no survivors of the nine "souls on board" and the wreckage was never found.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: In the 1990 action film "Die Hard 2", a Douglas DC-8 is given false landing instructions by terrorists and crash lands in a blizzard, resulting in fatalities to all on board. Industrial Light and Magic used a 23-foot long model to shoot the effects of the crash and explosion. Filming was done at a remote airstrip in the Mojave Desert of California. "However, shots of the passengers' frightened reactions to the initial impact, which had been shot on a set and originally cut into the movie, were so terrifying (made all the more authentic by preproduction research of Federal Aviation Administration test crashes and data from real aircraft crashes) that they were ultimately cut before the film's release." ILM constructed five DC-8 models for the production.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The film "Bat*21" featured an EB-66 variant of the Douglas B-66 Destroyer being shot down over North Vietnam in the beginning of the film.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The 1976 children's book "Thunder and Lightnings" by Jan Mark is about the relationship of two boys – otherwise outsiders – who share an interest in aeroplanes, in particular the English Electric Lightnings flown by the local squadron. The author was awarded the Carnegie Medal in 1978 for the book.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: A Eurocopter EC665 Tiger attack helicopter has a starring role in the 1995 James Bond film "GoldenEye".


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: A Eurocopter AS332 Super Puma becomes the main protagonist of the film "Rescue under fire". The unit used for filming in the movie was the same as in the real events.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: Protagonist Lt. Harry Brubaker flew a McDonnell F2H Banshee in the 1953 James A. Michener novel "The Bridges at Toko-Ri". In the subsequent 1954 film adaptation, his aircraft was changed to a Grumman F9F Panther.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: "Flight Command", released by MGM in 1940, featured the Grumman F3F, filmed at NAS North Island, San Diego, California. Flying by Frank Clarke and Paul Mantz.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The 1941 Warner Bros. film "Dive Bomber" showed Grumman F3Fs. F3F-2, BuNo "0989", '6-F-4', of VF-6, assigned to , is one of the best-known F3F-2's due to the fact it is the aircraft that Fred MacMurray "crashed" in this movie. Filming began at NAS North Island, San Diego, California, on 20 March 1941.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: US Marine aviator Lt. Col. Wilbur "Bull" Meecham flew an F-4 Phantom II in the 1979 film "The Great Santini" starring Robert Duvall as Meecham.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The Gobots character Mach 3 and the Transformers character Fireflight both turn into McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom IIs.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: In the 1988 film "Iron Eagle II", F-4s appear as Soviet MiGs. The aircraft were provided by the Israeli Air Force for the production.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: Vought F4U Corsairs featured in the latter part of the 1951 RKO war movie "Flying Leathernecks" which was directed by Nicholas Ray and starred John Wayne and Robert Ryan. The film's fictional Marine Air Corps unit exchange their older fighters for new F4Us as they support the drive across the Pacific in the latter stages of the war. For the film, the producers borrowed a number of flying F4Us which were then serving as trainers at the Marine Air Base at El Toro, California, and they also incorporated some wartime colour footage of F4Us taken during WW2.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: F4Us also featured in the 1952 Monogram film "Flat Top" which was directed by Lesley Selander and starred Sterling Hayden. In the film, Hayden plays Commander Dan Collier who takes command of a squadron of un-disciplined fighter pilots on board an aircraft carrier and is tasked with getting them combat-ready before the invasion of the Japanese-occupied Philippines in 1944. The film made extensive use of colour wartime footage of carrier-borne F4Us.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The F4U Corsair was a regularly featured aircraft of VMF-214 in the 1976–1978 television series "Baa Baa Black Sheep", based on the experiences of Pappy Boyington. The series was later renamed Black Sheep Squadron.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: Computer-generated images of F4U Corsairs appear in the 2006 Second World War drama "Flags of Our Fathers" directed by Clint Eastwood.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: An F4U Corsair named Skipper Riley (voiced by Stacy Keach) is one of the characters in Disney's animated TV series and films "Air Mater" (2011), "Planes" (2013).


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The sole Grumman XF5F-1 Skyrocket, which never entered production or squadron service, was incorporated as the primary mount for Blackhawk and the Blackhawk Squadron in wartime editions of the anthology series "Military Comics" published by Quality Comics, the first issue of which was published in August 1941. The long-running title was later acquired by DC Comics, with the squadron upgrading to more modern types.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: Grumman F6F Hellcats appeared in the 1951 motion picture "Flying Leathernecks" directed by Nicholas Ray and starring John Wayne. One of the pilots who flew aircraft for the aerial scenes in the production was Marine Captain Phil De Groot who, after completing work on the film, flew in the Korean War and was wounded in action. The production was filmed at a small airstrip at Camp Pendleton, California. De Groot said, "They put some sand all over the strip, and some palm trees, and built a little pagoda there, simulating Guadalcanal".


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: F6Fs appear in the 1964 novel "The Last Tallyho" by Richard Newhafer, a work inspired by the author's real-life experiences as a Hellcat pilot during WW2.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: F6Fs appear in the 1978 novel "Wingmen" by Ensan Case, a novel depicting US Navy fighter pilots serving on a fictional aircraft carrier- the 'USS "Constitution"'. The carrier's fighter squadron- VF-20- takes part in the Pacific War 1943-1944 and it centres on the experiences of two of its members- ensign Fred Trusteau and the squadron-commander, Lt Jack Hardigan.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: Computer-generated images of F6F Hellcats appear in the 2002 Second World War drama "Windtalkers" directed by John Woo and starring Nicolas Cage.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The F8F Bearcat are to appear in the 2022 Korean War drama film "Devotion". Two flyable Bearcats were used. Footage of actors flying the aircraft was created using a two-seat Hawker Sea Fury with its rear seat modified to resemble a Bearcat cockpit and visible portions of the airframe painted like a VF-32 Bearcat.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The Grumman F9F-2 Panther was prominently featured in the 1954 films "Men of the Fighting Lady" and "The Bridges at Toko-Ri." The latter film was based on the 1953 novel of the same name, whose protagonist flew a McDonnell F2H Banshee.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: Footage of the F9F-5 Panther ramp strike accident of 23 June 1951 aboard has been used in several films, including "Men of the Fighting Lady", "Midway" (1976), and "The Hunt For Red October" (1990). The footage shows Commander George Chamberlain Duncan crash BuNo 125228, then the forward fuselage breaking away and rolling down the deck. Duncan survived the crash.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The Grumman F-14 Tomcat was central to the 1986 film "Top Gun." The U.S. Navy provided F-14s at $7,600 per flight hour for a total bill of $886,000 ($ today). The aviation-themed film created such interest in naval aviation that the Navy set up recruitment desks outside some theaters. The F-14 also appears in the 2022 sequel "".


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: Two F-14As of VF-84 from the appeared in the 1980 film "The Final Countdown.". Four VF-84 planes appeared in the 1996 release "Executive Decision", the Jolly Rogers' final film appearance before being disestablished.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The military legal drama TV series "JAG" (1995–2005) featured lead character Harmon Rabb, a Tomcat pilot-turned-lawyer, and recurring scenes with the Tomcat.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The F-14 is the primary focus of the 1987 Williams pinball machine "F-14 Tomcat" and the "After Burner" video game series by Sega.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle is one of the most recognized modern fighters; this has led to, or perhaps even been aided by, its common use in children's toys. Leader-1 of the Gobots turns into an F-15. The Transformers toy line and media have featured numerous characters who turn into F-15 Eagles, the most notable being the villain Starscream in 1984 and a group of similar Decepticons, the Seekers: Acid Storm, Thundercracker, Skywarp and Sunstorm. Although a completely unrelated design to the others, the Aerialbot Air Raid also disguises himself as an F-15.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The F-15 is featured in the 1997 film "Air Force One". The Eagle was also shown in advertisements for the 2000 film "Thirteen Days". The ads were withdrawn when it came to the attention of New Line Cinema that the F-15, which first flew in 1972, was out of place for a film set in 1962. This was problematic for New Line, who had termed the film a "by-the-numbers recreation" and "close to perfect". A New Line spokesman said the advertisement was created by an outside agency.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: F-15Js and F-15DJs of the JASDF appear prominently in the 2004 film "". The film's protagonist, Shunichi Maki, is a prestigious pilot of the F-15, and encounters the enigmatic Ultraman 'The Next' while flying the aircraft.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The F-15 has appeared in numerous video games, including the 1985 Microprose title "F-15 Strike Eagle" and its two sequels, 1989's "F-15 Strike Eagle II" and 1992's "F-15 Strike Eagle III". F-15 also appears in three of "Jane's Combat Simulations" games: 1998's "F-15" and "", and 1999's "USAF".


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: A number of video games have featured the F-16: the "Falcon" series (1984-2005), "F-16 Combat Pilot" (1989), "F-16 Multirole Fighter" (1998), "F-16 Aggressor" (1999) and many others.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The Transformers Aerialbot Skydive and Decepticon Dreadwind disguise themselves as F-16 Fighting Falcons. The Transformers character Needlenose disguises himself as an F-16XL.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The Falcon was one of the stars of the 1986 film "Iron Eagle". The US Air Force refused to assist with production of the film because it found the plot about a teenager flying an F-16 into a foreign country to be "a little off the wall".


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The 1986 action-adventure romantic comedy film "The Jewel of the Nile" featured a brutal dictator's personal F-16 as the key element in the protagonists (played by Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas) escaping from a fortified town.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The aircraft was also featured in the HBO 1992 production "Afterburn". A dramatization of true events, the F-16 was the subject of a protracted legal battle over the safety of the design.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: Starting in 2007, the F-16 became one of two aircraft (along with the Cirrus SR22) to be featured in Google Earth Flight Simulator.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet appears in the 1994 film "Clear and Present Danger" which was directed by Phillip Noyce. The jet drops a laser-guided bomb on a car at a drug lord's villa, being laser designated by a special forces team.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: In the 1996 Michael Bay-directed film "The Rock", F/A-18s attack the prison on Alcatraz Island in the final scenes.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The F/A-18 Hornet was prominently featured in the 1996 film "Independence Day" and was filmed using F/A-18 squadrons belonging to the 3rd Marine Corps Aircraft Wing at El Toro and Miramar, in California.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: F/A-18A Hornets play a crucial role in the climax of the 1998 film "Godzilla", in which the planes first destroy the Baby Godzillas in Madison Square Garden by demolishing the building with AGM-84 Harpoon missiles, then kill Godzilla himself by firing additional Harpoon missiles at the monster after he became entangled in the cables of Brooklyn Bridge.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The F/A-18 Hornet appeared briefly in the 2003 film "Tears of the Sun" in the final, climactic battle, helping to save the surviving SEAL team members.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: The two-seater F/A-18F Super Hornet was featured in the 2001 film "Behind Enemy Lines", directed by John Moore and starring Owen Wilson and Gene Hackman. The plot begins with a Super Hornet being shot down over Bosnia.


title: Aircraft in fiction

text: In the 2013 Disney animated film "Planes", the characters Bravo and Echo are based on the F/A-18E Super Hornet.