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The Flyboys (released Internationally as Sky Kids) is a 2008 American aviation adventure film starring Reiley McClendon, Jesse James, Stephen Baldwin and Tom Sizemore. The Flyboys revolve around a "coming-of-age" story of two boys from a small town who find their courage tested when they accidentally stow away aboard an aircraft owned by the mob.
Skyhawks, Inc. was a family-run air transport and rescue service based at San Marcos Field in Southern California, and headed by widower Mike "Cap" Wilson. [3] Cap Wilson learned how to fly during World War II, during which he achieved the rank of Colonel.
The Tuskegee Airmen is a 1995 HBO television movie based on the exploits of an actual groundbreaking unit, the first African-American combat pilots in the United States Army Air Corps, that fought in World War II. The film was directed by Robert Markowitz and stars Laurence Fishburne, Cuba Gooding Jr., John Lithgow, and Malcolm-Jamal Warner.
Men of the Sky is a 1942 American Technicolor short propaganda film, directed by B. Reeves Eason. [1] The documentary film reenacted the training of a group of United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) pilots. [2] Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hollywood rushed to turn out films that would help to help win the war.
It is the only full-scale aircraft seen in the film. [ 10 ] Severin released the blu-ray edition of this film in the box set Cushing Curiosities in November 2023, loaded with extras and for the first time on home video in the correct 2.35:1 aspect ratio.
Two stunts, a church steeple being toppled by Locklear's aircraft and an aircraft-to-train transfer were both problematic and nearly ended in disaster. [4] The last stunt scheduled for filming was a nighttime spin, initially to take place in daylight with cameras fitted with red filters to simulate darkness.
MacLean loses his pilot's license as a result. Later, when two transport aircraft crash, killing all 44 ferry pilots aboard, there is an urgent need for pilots to ferry a group of unarmed Lockheed Hudson bombers from Gander to Britain. The flight instructors are assigned the task, but their numbers have to be supplemented with civilian pilots.
The Sky Parade is a 1936 American aviation drama film directed by Otho Lovering and written by Arthur J. Beckhard, Robert M. Burtt, Brian Marlow, Wilfred G. Moore and Byron Morgan. Starring Jimmie Allen, William Gargan , Katherine DeMille , Kent Taylor , Grant Withers and Syd Saylor , it was released on April 17, 1936, by Paramount Pictures .