AVIATION TRIVIA CONTEST! - Test Your Knowledge of Classic Aviation TV Shows and Movies.
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8:50 Here's some Convair trivia (former employee here), that's Atlas 88D which would make the flight Mercury-Atlas 4, a successful unmanned test launched on September 13, 1961. Cooper's Faith 7 was launched aboard Atlas 130D. Thanks for the very enjoyable video.
My Dad was a highly decorated Naval Aviator who flew one of the Skyraiders in "The Bridges at Toko-Ri". He told me that William Holden was a real gentleman who asked lots of questions of all the pilots;he wanted his portrayal to be accurate.
When I asked him about Mickey Rooney,he was less complementary..he called him several names which I won't repeat here.
Thanks,Mike for your wonderful presentations for avgeeks like me,and I hope you and yours have a happy and blessed Christmas.
P.S. The best pilot I ever saw was my Dad,but I'm biased!🖖🎸😀✈️
Great comment and story, thanks!
My opinion of Mickey Rooney was formed in the late seventies when I watched an interview with him on Canada's CBC with Mary Lou Finlay. He took it on himself to hammer the woman interviewer into the ground. The most arrogant demeaning prick I've ever watched on TV. Which is why I remember it so well. He should have been thrown out of the building but I guess he was considered Hollywood royalty at the time.
The fictional carrier in the film was strangely named for one of the USN's worst defeats.
Rooney was a sloppy drunk and always the tiniest guy in the room. I’m sure around real pilots he’d be very intimidated and feel like he was out of place.
Another great trivia challenge Mr. Machat. Thanks for posting. And a nice tribute to Paul Mantz and Art Scholl.
Visited Tal-Mantz museum with my Dad many times and met and saw Art Scholl put his Modified Dehaviland Chipmunk thru his skillfull acrobatic routine many times. RIP Art, Paul and Frank.
How many TF-86F were manufactured? 2. It was supposed to be USAF's newest jet trainer, but the F-100 Super Sabre was built with a 2 seat trainer version with better performance. Still a sharp looking aircraft. The Ferrari is okay too. LOL!
In It's a MMMMW, I love the guys in the airport control tower conversations, expressing their frustration with the retired Air Force pilot trying to get Buddy Hacket to follow instructions to land the plane. Classic movie line: " Why don't we just shoot them down & be through with it"!! Don't worry, the local CFR unit: "The Three Stooges" are standing by! Mike, Great Memories! Thank you so much from a kid (67 year old kid) who grew up in the late fifties need Maxwell AFB.
Great review. I remember the Whirlybirds, in fact I became a helicopter pilot because of it. I watch Bridges atToko-Ri every year along with Strategic Air Command. Do more reviews please.
Just tell me you don't wear Green Top hat when you fly? 😏🚁
The reason Jimmy stewart "Convincingly " played a pilot was because he was a pilot! He was a B-24 squadron commander in WW2, and flew a lot of combat!
I remember, as a young kid born in 1957, watching Whirlybirds, as well as Ripcord with Ken Curtis.
Been a long time since I (we?)
have watched these classics. I missed Sky King since I was born in '60. I wish MeTV would show some of those 50's aviation series! I laughed so hard at John Wayne's "antithesis of CRM" that I started choking. The Duke didn't by chance say, "someone oughta belt you in the mouth, but I won't..." (Naw that was in McClintock?) Hilarious observation Mike.
I have seen them on MTV at some point, but it has been a few years. Maybe we should start a recall movement!
Because of The Whirlybirds, I developed a fascination for helicopters. When I enlisted in the US Navy, i became a aviation electrician on guess what? RH53D minesweeping helicopters (HM-14)
That's Brig. Gen. Jimmy Stewart. At the time of filming he was a reserve air force pilot.
Top Gun opening sequence on the flight deck sends chills up my spine for those memories of working the USS Eisenhower, USS Constellation, USS Midway & a few smaller flight decks as a AE (aviation electrician) troubleshooter!
Films about the Air Force were a way for the Air Force to show off it's might to politicians & to recruit young people to join. Wouldn't you want to fly faster than sound?
Enjoy your videos. Some bring childhood memories, like my 1st flight. Earliest memory, my Dad smiling had me on his lap twirling his finger saying "hear the engine starting?" As a child, when it was allowed, I had to have a tour of the cockpit. Still can't find why it's called a "cockpit"
TV shows today need more evil-twins, perilous quicksand, and cases of amnesia.
Funny how Top Gun Maverick was the biggest worldwide move of the year but didn't make the new york times best ten movies of the year. Hmmm Maybe because it was too patriotic. What a list of great TV shows and Movies, hollywood mostly turns out garbage now. Thanks to Mike for keeping the history of American Aviation alive.
You've got to be kidding me? They actually put together a top 10 list of films for 2022 without Top Gun Maverick? It's the biggest film of the Year by far.
@@WALTERBROADDUS The new york times has gone W0KE I guess....
I don't like any movie Tom Cruise is in ....sorry.!
@@barryflick54 I'm not a real fan of Tom Cruise "especially after that time on the Orphia Show" But he was pretty good in the 1981 movie Taps, He wasn't even the star, George C Scott was.
@@jetsons101 good guess
Great video Mr Machat! I've seen all of these, but didn't score as well as I liked on the quiz. Thanks to you Sir I have a copy of Steve Canyon the complete series and Into the Unknown! Great film and TV. As always God bless you and yours. Thanks again for everything you do! Merry Christmas and take care always Sir!
My father, as a kid in New Jersey, saw the Hindenburg fly over their house a bit before it exploded.
All great shows and movies. Very entertaining and fun. I watch most of these movies and shows regularly with much enjoyment. Thanks Mike.
Great stuff. Some real gems covered here.
MISSED 4 .... GREAT QUIZ
The Graf Zeppelin did transatlantic crossings before the Hindenburg did. It did it's first intercontinental flight in 1928. Somebody must have put that on a schedule somewhere. It also did a round the world flight in 1929.
I agree. From what I’ve read the Graf Zeppelin was both first to cross and first to have scheduled crossings.
Thank you for posting such an entertaining video. Watching those shows growing up inspired me to join the U S Airforce, where I served as crew chief of RF101 Voodoos at Shaw AFB in Sumter S. Carolina.
'Gordo' Cooper was the baddest of them all. He walked his talk every day of his life. But my favorite Mercury astronaut was Virgil 'Gus' Grissom. He was probably the last astronaut picked and to me was always playing second fiddle and that made me like the guy even more. Besides if the Right Stuff was accurate, not only did he have the best nick name, but the best ribald quip in aviation history.
Great stuff Mike, a lot of fun. One tiny mistake, Spirit of St.Louis (Movie) came out in 1957, 30 years after Lindbergh’s flight, not fifty.
Good catch!
@@celebratingaviationwithmik9782 Lindy was 25 when he flew from New York to Paris, not 27.
thanks for mentioning the USS Oriskany on the bridges of Tokori
I received my first flight in a Cessna 172 in 1962 as a prize for winning a Sky King Tv contest. I won so often I ended up winning enough flights that I was disqualified after the pilot told the tv station I flew better than him. Chandler Field, Fresno, California.
Got them all but the last one. I'd forgotten that they's built a two-seat TF-86. (The 86 was only supersonic in a dive)
Back in the '60's when I was on a sub, one of the movies we saw on one patrol was that original "Flight of the Phoenix". When we were boarding the charter plane to take us home after the patrol, we were amused to see the name of that plane was "Phoenix".
A great show as always Mike. Almost ashamed to admit I missed a few. 🤗
You forgot "Terry & the Pirates" on TV as well as "12 O-Clock High", "Baa-Baa-Black Sheep" and some episodes of "Navy Log" dramatising real events in Naval Aviation. An honourable mention was "Captain Midnight", aka "Jet Jackson", who flew to the rescue from his mountain HQ in a Douglas Skyrocket! Classy! (Drink your Ovaltine, kids!)
Movies would include too many wartime and immediate post-war classics like "12 O-Clock High" to count in the same category, though these had their influence renewed via 1950s TV I suggest we confine our list to British and US productions made during the B&W TV era (roughly 1950-1964).
That, likewise, would place later productions like "the Battle of Britain", "the Blue Max" and so on, in a separate category, but we can include "the Dambusters" (For God's sake, don't remake it - tell the rest of the story, about the Tirpitz and Peenemunde raids with Barnes Wallis' 'earthquake' bombs! What's next - Tom Cruise and Madonna in "Casablanca"? Sore point, sorry.).
Other good Brit films include "Breaking the Sound Barrier", "Angels One-Five" and "Reach For the Sky". As for US movies within these parameters, I immediately would suggest Howard Hughes' "Jet Pilot" (forget the unlikely John Wayne / Janet Leigh, rom-com plot - the rare aircraft and flying scenes are jaw-dropping!)
Also, "a Gathering of Eagles" (Basically a ten-years-later remake of "Strategic Air Command", with Rock Hudson in the Jimmy Stewart role.)
In fact, those two films are like bookends, encompassing SAC's heyday, from B-36 / B-47, through B52Gs with Hound Dog missiles and Titan 1 ICBMs. No B-58s, sadly. What a decade in aviation! By the way, the sound track says "Strategic Air Command" is available on DVD. Not any more! Show me one in good shape and name a price!
There was also "the Hunters", with Robert Mitchum in an F-86 chasing MiGs (played by F-84s, in a USAF parallel story to the USN's "Toko-Ri", as well as "God is My Co-Pilot" and "Fighter Squadron", with Sterling Hayden strafing axis targets in Italy in a P-47. (Endless gun-camera footage is the best part.)
Speaking of Sterling Hayden, I propose 1964's "Dr. Strangelove..." and "Fail-Safe" as the 'Siamese twins' of Armageddon to mark the later boundary of our list. Both address the horror of accidental nuclear war - one played straight - the other a hilarious black comedy.
By the way, Oliver Stone paid Putin a visit before the Ukraine invasion to share "Dr. Strangelove" with him, in an effort to get him to lighten up. In this, he failed - Putin remained deadpan throughout, but in the CZcams video, the interpreter standing behind 'Fearless Leader' is desperately trying not to burst out laughing! ('Must get moose and skvirrel!')
Anyway, these are some suggestions from my 70-something memory bank - I'm sure there are lots more.☮
Loved this. Watched all these movies and T.V. shows growing up. Interesting note that when Art Scholl was lost his dog “Aileron” was with him. He used to fly sitting on his shoulder.
Mike, Enjoy your channel. Got most of this contest but not all. Since you mentioned Strategic Air Command and someone said it was out on Blu-Ray perhaps you would research what I consider the best scene of just about ANY aviation movie: The B-36 takeoff. There is no CGI in this scene but I wonder how many people realize there is a second airplane involved. This is a two ship takeoff, something probably only done once with a B-36. While I suspect that Paul Mantz was flying his camera equipped B-25 to get this shot I've never found anything to confirm it. It took some serious flying to stay that close to the B-36, especially on the runway. The wake turbulence had to have been terrific. Perhaps you have better sources and can do an episode on what it took to do that sequence.
Wonderful comment, thanks, and that takeoff scene was one of the most surprising and electrifying moments of my life (I was eight years old at the time)! The visual 'set-up' is that most of the ramp action and taxiing-out is seen from the height of what looks like the "Follow Me" Chevy pick-up truck. You would then assume that the same truck follows the B-36 down the Carswell runway, but when the bomber reaches 100 mph and the nose comes up, you realize something different is going on. When the '36 actually lifted-off and the gear retracted I was literally standing-up at my seat in the theater absolutely speechless! And yes, that sequence and all the stunning inflight footage was filmed by the nose camera in Mantz's specially outfitted B-25 camera ship.
This is really good and a lot of fun. “Sky King” along with a Naval Aviator father and his father, a Royal Flying Corps observer set the bit in my teeth, my son now a flight instructor, and my 5-year old grandson who regularly requests a “Sky King” episode. Your video series is always a special treat. Merry Christmas my friend.
Wonderful comment, thanks Charles and Happy Holidays!
Can't believe he referenced both The High and Mighty and Airplane without mentioning Airplane was a direct parody of H&M, right down to the sound of the (jet) airliner being a piston engine, since the original movie used the shot of the plane flying through the rain so many times, engines droning loudly.
Also, some lines were reused verbatim, but what were dramatic in the over-the-top original came across as hilarious in Airplane.
Thanks for watching, and yes, while some of the lines from AIRPLANE were based on "The High and the Mighty," that spoof's dialogue was actually lifted (with permission of original studio copyright holders) from the tense aviation drama "Zero Hour" starring Dana Andrews. Andrews plays Lt. Ted Stryker, a former WWII RAF pilot attempting to land a Canadian DC-4 after the crew suffers food poisoning. Hence Leslie Nielsen's Doctor character, and Stryker's former Commander, played by Stack, talking him down from the tower: www.bing.com/videos/search?q=zero+hour+dana+andrews&view=detail&mid=2C2B8696091AE121B90C2C2B8696091AE121B90C&FORM=VIRE
Thank you Mike. This is a great Christmas present for all your fans. Ah, “Whirlibirds” brings back wonderful memories. We saw it in the UK, probably a couple of years later than in the US. I was 10 years old. What a wonderful time to be 10. Merry Christmas to you and yours.
Loved it.
Thanks Mike! Fun trip down memory lane, only missed 4. Might be getting old!
That tie breaker was tricky - I could have believed it but the F86 was only supersonic in a dive
Rex Kramer.
Greatest. Combat. Pilot. Ever.
(Walking through a terminal, that is).
James Stewart was a civilian pilot prior to WWII and was in the Army Air corps, flew combat missions and retired a Brigadier General in the USAF. He was qualified in most of the early SAC bombers including the B47.
X15 was my favorite aviation movie, several future stars in that one
Fair skies and a soft tail wind.
What a "fun" episode! Thank you for all you do for us, Mike! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Many thanks Matt, and Happy Holidays!
Skyking? That's a very old memory. Black n white tv days.
I remember it like yesterday. It would come on Saturday morning and my brother and I would be eating cheerios in the living room with our toy airplanes parked in front of the TV. My sister would watch too, but with her Mary Hartline doll.
100% Mike. Another awesome movie turned tele-series which you can not get now for some reason was called. "Call to Glory". Great air to air footage of T-38's and U-2's. Craig T Nielson was the star. Almost as good as Strategic Air Command. Maybe you can find out why it just disappeared...........
The writers turned the storylines away for military details, which to me were very accurate, (I was still in the USAF) and into social justice warrior agendas. I quit watching because my wife got tired of me yelling at the TV.
Damn, I actually remember that show.
Yeah...the 2 hr tv pilot " movie" is what I'd like to be able to buy. It was about the cuban missle crisis w/U2 pilots flying recon out of Del Rio and taking proficiency flights in T-38s. Even real T-37 footage of big wigs arriving w/T-38 escort. Anyone know why the pilot movie just up and disappeared?
@@garyyoung4074 as far as I can tell is not available on DVD. Amazon may have it in VHS however?
I’ll say I got a passing grade; barely. As a kid growing up in Wichita in 60’s, I could identify just about every general aviation aircraft in the sky @ 10000 ft. Knew most all the Military aircraft as well. It helped having a SAC AFB with coming and goings of others and so many GA manufacturers here, plus a GA pilot father.
Fun fact I saw the very first Lear prototype test flight up close and personal from the apron. Plus the first test flight of the Bede 5.
That was fun!! Thanks!!
Thanks for this great video.
Great idea, such a fun trivia game for us avi-nuts. Thanks Mike!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I missed the one on the DC-4 cockpit. Thanks, Mike!
Great video
That was fun Mike! I was 12 and 3, not too bad.
Great one MIke...missed one on Sky King!
Entertaining and educational, thanks Mike! Have a merry Christmas and a safe and healthy New Year to you and your family.🎅🏻🎆🎇😀
Great stuff Mike
I also read that W. Holden learned to taxi the panther on the bridge of the aircraft carrier for a particular scene where it was not possible to have a real pilot at the controls showing his face at the camera
Missed 4 but I do have copies of All the movies & shows in the quiz. In the early 70's I got my Private SEL ticket in a C150 at a small MD airstrip. At that time the rental cost $17/hr Wet! We didn't yet have transponders and only used Unicom. We just had to keep away from the upside down layer cake airspace of BWI before everything became as controlled as it is now. Unfortunately I gave it up after a bad motorcycle accident and the rental costs going up more and more. But I'm still happy to say i Did It!
Excellent Mike. I did quite good, but there were some I didn't have a clue about. Thanks for uploading.
Thanks Mike, and Merry Christmas to you and yours.
A great video. And great photos.
Many thanks!
Awesome episode.
Thanks for the great memories.
I knew few of the answers but remembered all of the shows and movies. Oh my am I ancient 😊. Thank you Mike and take care.
Supposedly Tony Scott’s check bounced.
There were so many great movies and tv shows that featured WW II aircraft.. I remember 12 o’clock high where they showcased B17’s in the European theater and Black Sheep tv show it’s why I started flying back in 1977.
Supersonic F-86 two-seater? I doubt it.
I think Jimmie Stewart actually was a pilot-he flew B-24's in WW2. I think.
Cheers from the Pacific West Coast of Canada.
Great episode - another one I got 100% on.
Congrats!
I took this quiz, and after nearly acing it, discovered a movie I have never even heard of. Looked it up and sure enough there it was, Towards the unknown it’s in great shape, I’ll save it for tonight while I await the Santa Overflight 😉
I love airplanes and I love all movies that have airplanes in them.
Having been an airplane nut since 1955, it's hard for me to watch aviation shows/movies. Most of them aren't realistic enough. Jimmy Stewart was a great man and made the best movies..
Agreed!
Good selection of movies. Agree, Top Gun Maverick is a great movie. The original Top Gun was good too. Later that summer of 86, attended the USAF Flight Screening Program at Embry Riddle in Daytona Beach. One of the civilian Instructor Pilots (Embry Riddle IPs and USAF Stan/Evil…whoops, Stan/Eval pilots) was a good looking gal. My flight of surviving cadets (almost half the flight washed out by the time I graduated…!?!) was standing in formation outside the classroom when she approached the door. We all belted out “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’”. She listened, blew a kiss and walked inside. I must say we sounded pretty good, and, good times.
Love it!
The comment about Mickey Rooney rings true as he came to the UK and was boasting how lucky we were that he lowered his standards to play to a uk audience, he went away with 2 black eyes
Jimmy Stewart was a true flying legend as he was a B24 pilot in 8th air force flying out of UK and was a leading fund raiser in theStates for the American Hangerat the Imperial War Museum at former RAF Duxford in Cambridgeshire. RIP Sir
Hi, very, very informative!!!!!!!!!!!
Another great one Mike. I missed 2.
Thanks for sharing and Merry Christmas to you and your family 👪
Great vlog as always! A trivia back at ya` about the Hindenburg. Why was it so important for her to land at Lakehirst? The trip back to Germany was fully booked with VIPs attending the coronation of the new british king. A day without learning is a day waisted. Keep up the good work! Do you have stories about SAS/SK? A very loyal Douglas aircraft buyer. Merry Christmas!
Brought back memories.
kenneth toby from whirlybirds later starred as sheriff carl donahue in "dirty mary crazy larry" that also starred legendary heli pilot james w gavin
Non-stop across the Atlantic? Funny haha !
What's funny about it
Non-stop, blimp , crash, ? Atlantic. ✌️
Steve Canyon was a short-run series, but I remember the son of Dean Fredricks (Steve Canyon) attended my grade school for a short time, and Dean picked up his son after school in a Gull-Wing Mercedes. The epitome of cool in the late 50s!
Neat story, thanks!
Another great video. I got about half of the questions right. Maybe I will do better next one.
The video was great. I respectfully disagree with the Hindenburg question. From what I’ve read the Graf Zeppelin airship was first to cross the Atlantic and first to have scheduled crossings. Thanks for the video!
Muito bom! Obrigado por compartilhar
The car in the last spot looks to be an AC Cobra
I got most of them right
One note: Stacks character from the movie the high and mighty was where the character of the pilot in movie Airplane was taken from.
Thanks!
Many thanks for so generously supporting the channel - greatly appreciated, and Happy Holidays!
i got a few right!
I enjoy my DVD BR discs of Strategic Air Command and High And The Mighty. Another great movie based around a C-47 is Island In The Sky with John Wayne. Aside from Top Gun, has there been a movie in the last decade or so featuring an airplane like these old classics?
Have you seen the upscaled version of Strategic Air Command? It's beautiful!
Yes, I was extremely excited when the Blu-Ray of that wonderful Jimmy Stewart movie became available.
I was surprised you rate Top Gun: Maverick as the "Greatest aviation movie of modern times", but then I can't really think of other good examples. It seems like the aviation film genre doesn't really exist any more. Wait, I quite like "The Red Baron" (2008), though it's not super-accurate...like about every other war film.
Trivia question for your next run." While John Wayne is known for his Cowboy roles, how many times did he play a pilot??"
Two I can think of??
@@johnking6252 actually more than that.
@@WALTERBROADDUS So I've been told. 👍
7. Central Airport, Flying Tigers, Jet Pilot, Wings of Eagles, island in the Sky, Flying Leathernecks and The High and the Mighty.
Some more information on the Twin Beech that Frank Tallman flew through the billboard... that billboard was constructed on the approach of then the Santa Ana Airport ( now known as John Wayne Orange County) just as a safety concern that if anything happened Frank could immediately land on a runway. The cars on the road are on what is now known as Red Hill Ave.
Always wondered about that - thanks for the good information!
100%
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Hmmm.....I could be wrong but I thought the F86 was not capable of supersonic flight...was it able to do that in a dive..or was it possibly an F-100 Holden rode in??
Seems to me the F-86 could do supersonic in a dive and the F-100 was the first that could do it straight n level. I’m very open to correction.
@@DardanellesBy108 You are correct on both counts.
Interesting episode, Mike. What was the title of the movie with William Holden, the TF-86F and the Ferrari? I didn't notice the title mentioned.
Toward the Unknown.
Here’s another bit of trivia. The “DC-3” in the Hindenburg picture is actually not a DC-3 but rather the forerunner of the 3, which of course is the DST. You can tell by the upper row of windows above the regular ones.
Yes, that is correct. Thanks for watching!
The stunt pilot in the original 'FotP' died in second flight of the aircraft, which was an unnecessary flight, the director later admitted.
Yes, that was Paul Mantz, one of the dedications at the end.
I didn't think an F-86 could go supersonic?
It could in a dive.
Whirlybirds was made by Desilu Studios who was owned by Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball who made many other TV shows. It's too bad the back lot was bulldozed to make way for office buildings.
Sorry, probably not the place to ask: What b&w circa 40's/50's movie portrayed two competing pilots tragically colliding together in the final scene. Presumably a serious game of 'chicken' and possibly flown in P-38s. Distant childhood memory which may have no basis in reality. Thanks.
Apologies, but I don't recall that movie. Sadly, that exact scenario happened to two USAF jet fighters over the Hudson Valley in New York in 1963. Thanks for watching.
GREAT TRIVIA, I knew a lot, but missed 3, BUT WAIT,THERES MORE!; Art Scholl was killed filming 'Top Gun"???
THAT I DID NOT KNOW!
What was the incident?
Help please?
Thanks for your question and for taking the quiz. Art Scholl was filming the spin sequence (that ironically killed Goose in the movie) over the Pacific Ocean North of San Diego. Halfway through the sequence, he radioed, "I've got a big problem," and speculation is that his controls locked. He was flying with his famed dog Aileron, and no trace of them or the airplane were ever found.