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A-4 Skyhawk

The A-4 Skyhawk was presented as an aggressor aircraft in the movie “Top Gun”. The producers paid the U.S. Navy used 600 for one hour flight in the movie.

A Skyhawk Israeli warplanes also the opening scene of the movie The Sum of All Fears and on the cover of the first and second editions of the novel, the film was based.

A-6 Intruder

The film centered Flight of the Intruder 1991 by two naval aviator during the Vietnam War, their A-6 Intruder take a on a bombing raid on Hanoi.

A-10 Thunderbolt II

The character of Transformers toys from Wingblade like a robot and A-10 Thunderbolt II by Hasbro

The evil character Gobots Bad Boy and the heroic character Transformers Powerglide two dress up as A-10 Thunderbolt IIs.

The popularity of the A-10 resulted in the Transformers movie called 2007 The Toy Company release of a minor character named Wingblade Powerglide and others who turned in A-10.

A-10 as the plane through the human resistance against the machines of Skynet in the 2009 movie Terminator Salvation were used presented.

A6M Zero

The A6M Zero was featured in the movie The Final Countdown, Pearl Harbor, and Tora! Tora! Tora!. Zero is also shown in the film Midway in 1976, but real zeros were not used. Instead, F4F Wildcats were Japanese planes shown and used instead.

Adam A500

The Adam A500 has introduced in the 2006 film Miami Vice and was destined to be the aircraft of choice for drug traffickers.

Adam Aircraft CEO Rick Adam, said that if the aircraft was cast in the film, in a press release of the self-promotion:

The Adam Aircraft A500 is the ideal aircraft for the “Miami Vice. The A500 signature twin-boom profile reaches the level of style and high performance necessary to achieve the standards of a Michael Mann production to meet, and the images we have seen looks stunning performances from his speed off the plane and superior maneuverability.

Apache AH-64

The Apache AH-64 has an important role in the movie Fire Birds (or wings of Apache).

Spinister Transformers character disguises himself as an Apache helicopter.

Antonov An-225

For fiction Airbus A-500 in the 2012 film, List of fictional aircraft

see the Decepticon Jetstorm character of the line 2007 Transformers movie is based on the Antonov An-225 is based. This portion of her body with toys Cybertron Jetfire Design, Classics Fireflight and the Universe Air Raid.

Avro Ashton

The Avro Ashton, in its six engines, Olympus form Testbed was a passenger aircraft fictional Phoenix Cone of Silence (1960), on the novel of the same name by David Beaty , a former BOAC pilot were based. It was the difficulty of the launch of Phoenix, and based the subsequent accident investigation, it was two starts on accident de Havilland Comet. drawn

Avro Canada CF-100

The cartoon character Tintin by Albert Weinberg, Major Dan Cooper, a pilot test of the CRA, especially under the CF-100.

Avro Lancasterroman

Len Deighton’s Bomber described an attack by the Royal Air Force Avro Lancaster in Krefeld, Germany, in which a series of unexpected incidents, the carpet bombing of a small town near led.

The Lancaster has been at the center of the second half of the British film “The Dam Busters. This film is a dramatization of real life operation punishment, the formation of real-life 617 Squadron RAF Wing Commander Guy Gibson, the Victoria Cross was awarded mentioned commanded, and the bombing of the real life of the poppy, and Eder dams in Germany to break Sorpe water supply and hydroelectric power for the Nazi munitions factories. The film is based on the book “The Dam Busters based on Paul Brickhill and Enemy Coast Ahead by Guy Gibson.

Avro Vulcan Avro Vulcan figures Anthony Gray in 1965, new bushings, which shows an officer in the RAF test, weakness in the North American Strategic Defense NORAD launch a simulated attack with nine Vulcans and some Vickers Valiant tankers for refueling.

The Avro Vulcan in the James Bond film Thunderball used.

B-1 Lancer

In 1983, James Bond Never Say Never Again features a cruise missile launch from a B-1 Lancer (although the order in which the cruise missiles B-1 are loaded with a Concorde SST replacement for the B-1 suspension was filmed).

The Tranformers Decepticon disguised as a sweeper named Wind, a B-1 Lancer.

The B-1 in the film Real Genius as a medium for a laser. [Edit]

B-2 Spirit

The B-2 Spirit appeared in the movie The Sum of All Fears and Independence Day.

B-17 Flying Fortress

The B-17 Flying Fortress was the theme of the film Memphis Belle.

B-17 has also figured prominently Oscar-winning film of 1949 in Twelve O’Clock High with Gregory Peck. The film focuses on leadership in the aviation and human losses in the strategy of the USAF precision bombing in daylight. The U.S. Air Force worked on the production of the film and gives manufacturers and aircraft to allow filming at Eglin Air Force Base and Ozark terrain. The film had a real emergency landing of a B-17 piloted by experienced stunt pilot Paul Manizer. The film led to a TV series of the same name, again with the B-17.

The B-17 is a key element in the book by JD Gilman KG 200 and J. Clive on the secret unit of the Luftwaffe KG 200, tested and flew many aircraft captured allies.

Mitchell B-25

The B-25 Mitchell was the subject of the second half of the 2001 film Pearl Harbor, although critics have complained that the bombers were wrong and their role described.

The B-25 is also introduced in the 1961 novel Catch-22 in the 1970s, Catch-22 (film), that many film unit B-25s were in flying condition.

The B-25 also had roles in feature films: Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944) (considering a pilot Doolittle Raid), Hanover Street (1979) on a fictional B-25 unit in England, Forever Young (1992) stationed based Following the story of a B-25 test pilots from past and present.

B-29 Superfortress

The B-29 Superfortress played an important role in several Hollywood films, doubled since the Enola Gay, which dropped the first atomic bomb. The Enola Gay was displayed in Above and Beyond and at the beginning or end. Filmmakers also the only B-29 still in service in 1983 film “The Right Stuff for the start of the Bell X-1 to create the first supersonic flight again.

B- 36
The Convair B-36 prominently in Paramount’s Strategic Air Command (1955) presented offers to James Stewart (a real-life bomber pilot who was in the Air Force Reserve). The film many aerial shots of B-36s and mostly to Carswell AFB, Texas and Tampa, Florida was shot. A shot was had to shoot very hard to tell where the character of Stewart, a baseball player is standing on a baseball field and flew B-36 over, threw a shadow over him, symbolizing his return to come in active service. In the film, this character is in need emergency landing of his B-36 in the Arctic.

B-52

Film 1957 Karl Malden Bombers B -52 is a fictional account of the B-52′s activation at Castle Air Force Base.

A B-52 was a focal point of the novel by William Prochnau Trinidad child and the TV film By Dawn’s Early Light

The B-52 was also a central element of Stanley Kubrick in the 1964 black comedy Doctor Strangelove or:. How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, and a gathering of Eagles.Bell

X-1

The Bell X-1 was shown at the beginning of the movie The Right Stuff. The film shows the historic flight of the X-1 was the first aircraft to break the sound barrier to cross. This knowledge helped in the preparation of the U.S. space program, the subject of the rest of the movie was.

Bell 47

The 1950s American television series played a pair be Whirlybird Bell 47 helicopters. The association with Whirlybird still used, for Bell helicopters and support to 47 in particular. A Bell 47 was one of the stars of Australian television series Skippy the Bush Kangaroo.

Bell 47, in its military configuration as H-13 Sioux, was the focus of the TV series M * A * S * H, and the movie of the same name.

Bell 206 Chopper Squad is a television series of the 1970s in Australia on a Bell 206 Jet Ranger used for rescue work in Sydney. The helicopter was used in a real rescue helicopter from the Westpac Life Saver Rescue Helicopter Service operates.

Boeing 314

The novel by Ken Follett night on the water is the story of a group of people who travel from England to the U.S. in a Boeing 314 at the beginning of the Second World War.

Boeing 707

The Boeing 707 serves as a platform for real life E-3 Sentry, an airborne warning and aircraft. In the novel “Debt of Honour”, the E-3 operated by the United States were high-priority targets for the air forces of Japan.

The Boeing 747 was introduced in the movie Executive Decision, that the site in a terrorist hijacking. It was in the novel and film “The Sum of All Fears important that the National Center for air operations during a nuclear showdown with Russia.

A 747-146 was Item title of the movie Air Force One, which is the actual implementation of 747-200, the President of the United States.

The 747 has been shown repeatedly in the best-selling novel “Debt of Honor.” The best known was the plane in a suicide attack on the Capitol building used, killing the President, most of the Cabinet and the Congress to present A joint meeting of Congress were the United States. This event laid the premise of “Executive Orders” novel, is another bestseller.

767

The Boeing E-767 is configured (a trade as 767 airborne early warning and control aircraft), was at the center of the action in the novel Debt of Honor in a war between the U.S. and Japan, the E-767 were to be protected as valuable assets of operational objectives with high priority for the Japanese and the U.S. military.

Bestmann Bcker
In the film The Great Escape steal the signs by James Garner and Donald Pleasance played Bcker Bestmann B 181 from a German airport to fly to neutral Switzerland , but the plane developed engine problems and accidents.

Casa 2111

Several ex-Spanish Air Force CASA 2111 were used as stand-ins “to describe the German bomber Heinkel He 111 Film in the Battle of Britain.

Concorde The Concorde was a central element in the disaster film The Concorde … Airport ’79. A French Concorde has been praised for turning the manufacturer

The character Transformers Silverbolt transforms into a Corcorde

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– 5 prominent place in the 2005 film Les Chevaliers du Ciel French (The Knights of the Sky in literal translation, as the knights of the sky in the English-speaking territories published).

Transformers rejuvenated character disguises himself as Dassault Mirage 2000.

De Havilland Canada DHC-

2 Beaver De Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver was the focus of the film Six Days, Seven Nights. The actual flight was in the film by its star, Harrison Ford, who at the beaver, that he purchased the aircraft was completed after the shooting enjoyed made.

de Havilland Moth Fox

The novel by Nevil Shute in turn is the story of two men, two British Licensed Aircraft Engineers. A large number of different types of aircraft, both fictional and real, appear in the book. The narrator and protagonist of the story is Tom Schneider and establish the novel details his efforts to an air charter company in Bahrain immediately after the Second World War. His first aircraft was a de Havilland Fox Moth, is later by several other devices that the company has developed mostly fictional joined, but among them a Percival Proctor.

Havilland Hornet Moth

The novel Hornet Flight Ken Follett is a thriller of resistance against the Nazi occupation of Denmark during World War II. In the novel by de Havilland Moth Hornet was used by the protagonists to from Denmark to the United Kingdom fly information German radar system. The author was on a specific flight data which was inspired during the Second World War.

De Havilland Mosquito

De Havilland Mosquito prominently in the film 633 Squadron in 1964 next to actor Cliff Robertson and Harry Andrews. The film was to use a real, marked the airworthiness of aircraft, rather than models, for most scenes.

mosquitoes play the title role in 1969 film Mosquito Squadron David McCallum and Charles Gray.

De Havilland Vampire
The de Havilland Vampire was the focus of the plot of the novel, to the shepherd attempt by the British novelist Frederick Forsyth, the story of an RAF pilot home on Christmas RAF Celle, Germany RAF Lakenheath is getting in on Christmas Eve 1957. fact that the DH.100 later with no ejection seats to about 10 years, equipped, and was therefore a major challenge for the rescue of an item important to the story.

Vampire jets also appear in the 1966 novel Shooting Script by former RAF pilot and the crime writer Gavin Lyall.

A French Air Force vampire threat appears in 1954, the great French-language comic Jacques Martin, the first with Guy Lefranc investigative journalist, was destroyed in the commission of an unknown helicopter.

EB 66

The film had a Bat * 21 EB-66 was down turned North Vietnam at the beginning of the film. The rest of the movie in real life events surrounding the rescue of the CTA shows iceal Hambleton, of the only survivor of the crew were 6 men.

Eurocopter Tiger

A prototype Eurocopter EC 665 Tiger combat helicopter has played a role leading to the 1995 film “GoldenEye” James Bond. In the film, is a tiger prototype by General Arkadi luring Xenia Onatopp and his partner stole a lot,

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The Gobots character and the character of both Mach 3 again in IIS Fireflight Transformers F-4 Phantom.

F4F Wildcat F4F Wildcats

rest of the 2nd World War was the shoot in the critical battle of Midway uses air cushions.

F4U Corsair
The Chance Vought F4U Corsair aircraft was a regular in the TV series Baa Baa Black Sheep (later renamed the Black Sheep Squadron).

F-5 Tiger

The F-5 Tiger has added the role of an enemy plane in Top Gun.

F-14 Tomcat

The Grumman F-14 Tomcat, the center of the movie Top Gun .’s was a film on the theme of aviation so successful in creating an interest in naval aviation of the U.S. Navy, which helped with the film, a recruiting office in the amount of outdoor theaters. The producers paid the U.S. Navy 6000 as compensation for the time of flight operations in the film. One hour flight for the F-14, was charged, 600

He also appeared in the movie The Final Countdown and the TV series JAG. The Tomcat was a central element of the latest novel by Stephen Coonts Vol Four F-14 were then shown in the movie Executive Decision.

F-15 Eagle

characters Transformers Thundercracker, Skywarp and Starscream as Jets F -15 Eagle in a story Marvel Comics

The F -15 Eagle is one of the most modern fighters, which resulted in, or perhaps from its current use in toys for children helped. The line of Transformers toys and the media has a lot of characters that turn into F-15 Eagle, which is worth mentioning the evil Starscream in 1984 and a similar group of Decepticons, the storm of candidates acid, Thundercracker, Skywarp and Sunstorm. Although the design is not with the others, Autobot Air Raid and disguises himself as an F-15.

The F-15 is characterized in the movie Air Force One. The eagle was also shown in advertising the film Thirteen Days. The ads withdrawn were when it came to the attention of New Line Cinema as the F-15, which first flew in 1972, has set no place for a film in 1962. That was a problem for New Line, which described the film as “by -the numbers-recovery “and” close to perfection. “” Every ship, plane, truck and craft that moves in the film is absolutely authentic to the time, “said Steve Elzer, spokesman for New Line. Lord said Elzer the advertisement by an external agency was created.

Air described fighting between the F-15 in the novel Debt of Honor. The fights are not only important to the plot, but unusual for both parties the operation of the aircraft against each other.

F-16 Fighting Falcon

The F-16 Fighting Falcon in the movie The Sum of All Fears was presented. The falcon was also a of the stars of the movie Iron Eagle. The U.S. Air Force refused to support the production of the film, because it is the site to a teenager under the F-16 in a foreign country is not found “a little on the wall.”

Transformers Decepticons Dreadwind Aerialbot Skydive disguise itself as F-16.

F/A-18 Hornet F/A-18 Hornet The
is released to save more time in the movie Tears of the sun, especially in the climatic final battle and help the surviving members of the SEAL team.

The F/A-18F, a two-seat version was introduced in the film “Behind Enemy Lines.” The film revolves around a Super Hornet is shot down over Bosnia. The film led to a lawsuit by Scott O’Grady, a pilot for the U.S. Air Force, which was shot in Bosnia and spent a few days away as the figures submitted in the movie. O’Grady argues that the film was based on his experience.

F-22 Raptor

The F-22 Raptor has a number of books, as indicated was Tom Clancy’s Debt Of Honor, in which a long mission with F-22s dominated the last part of the book, and Clive Cussler Dark Watch. In the book, Cussler, a F-22 goes on a secret mission to an enemy of Syria. In debt of honor, the F-22, the latest stealth technology by the United States against the Boeing Advanced E-767 AWACS, which were exploited by Japan. appeared

The Raptor in movies. Despite appearing in Movie Hulk 2003, took the F-22 made his debut in Hollywood in the 2007 film Transformers as the shape of the Decepticon character Starscream alongside many veterans of the U.S. Air Force has, over the intervention fight and initial conditions. The film crew was filming actual Raptors in Flight allowed, in contrast to previous computer-generated effects, because of the support of the army director Michael Bay. The Raptors were filmed at Edwards Air Force Base. The real Raptor’s appearance on the big screen in next Iron Man

toys Starscream were replicas of F-22 Raptor. These models have for other characters in the line as Thundercracker, Skywarp and Ramjet, who also converted to F-22 Raptor has been re-used.

While the 2007 Transformers movie Starscream is the best known transformer, which transforms into an F-22, there were other Transformers F-22 before it. For example, in 1997 Machine Wars versions of Megatron and Megaplex converted F-22s.
F-35 Lightning II

The first major film appearance was a representation of an F-35 Lightning II in Live Free or Die Hard (released as “Die Hard 4 outside North America) in the 2007. The film uses a combination of a large model and its ability to dramatize much CGI hangs with the lift fan.

The nature of the Transformers Autobot Decepticon Thrust Breakaway and Redeco disguise the revenge of the fallen toys as two F-35s. Breakaway appears as a playable character in the 2009 Revenge of the Fallen videogame.

F-117 Nighthawk

The Nighthawk has appeared in the Transformers movie 2007.Grumman

X-29

Transformers Autobot called Dogfight disguises herself as an X-29.

Harrier Jump Jet

The family has unique VTOL Harrier result, presented in a series of films and programs flight simulator.

The Harrier Jump Jet in an episode from 1966 called St. “Flight Plan” was released as an experimental aircraft called the Osprey.

The aircraft also appeared in the film True Lies, in which the character played by Arnold Schwarzenegger flies an AV-8B.

Transformers Autobot disguised as a Harrier called Slingshot.

In Revenge of the fallen Decepticon Dirge character was also a Harrier, this design was later used for Jetblade Decepticon.

The Harrier appeared briefly at the start of The Living Daylights.

was presented in the film Battle of Britain. Three hurricanes in a state of airworthiness has been removed and for the shooting.

Hispano HA-1112

Hispano Ha 1112 Buchon Aviacin

At least 24 were ex-Spanish Air Force Hispano HA-1112 Aviacin than flying and is not used -flying “stand-ins” to describe the Luftwaffe Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighters in the film The Battle of Britain. began in the mid-1960s to the time of the aircraft for the film is the only real Bf white pick-109, that there are examples not able to fly in museums such as the Imperial Museum and the South African National War Museum of Military History, or in private hands, withdrawn while the HA-1112 straight out of the service with the Spanish Air Force and airworthy examples were abundant.

MC-130 Combat Talon

The Lockheed MC-130 Combat Talon was introduced as the rescue plane in the movie Air Force One, carrying out a daring air intervention of the President and his family as Air Force One is a failure, and enter the Atlantic Ocean.

Mikoyan MiG-29

The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-29 is another form of the figure and its Dreadwing redecos clouds and Fearswoop 2007 and 2009 lines of Transformers Movie toys.

A squadron of MiG-29 combat against the F-15 Air Force One. [Edit]

Nieuport 17 The Nieuport 17 was one of the leading manufacturers in the movie Flyboys presented. has

O-2 Skymaster

A Cessna 337 painted the same gray, the role of an O-2 Skymaster in the film Bat * 21, when the plane of Danny Glover.P

piloted -38 Lightning

Von Ryan Express (1965) begins with the protagonists, USAF Colonel Joseph Ryan (Frank Sinatra) crash of a P-38 Lightning in World War II in Italy, where then trapped like a prisoner of war.

A Guy Named Joe (1943) Spencer Tracy returns as a spiritual guide to the care of young P-38 pilot Van Johnson.

Yamamoto shot! (1944, B & W, 4:00) The P-38 Squadron that Admiral Yamamoto shot, is represented by a long-range interceptor in the Pacific. The film contains so-called P-38 gun camera footage of bombers Admiral Betty in flames.

P-38 pilot recognition (1944, B & W, 29:00) with William Holden as Lt. “Packy” Cummings, this short film shows that the pilots Recon photo (Joe’s photo) of a of the riskiest, highest impact jobs in the guerre.P

-40

In the movie of John Wayne: Flying Tigers are presented (1942) Real Curtiss P-40. A critic of the New York Times called the P-40 “the real stars of the film. Republic Studios has also built replicas of movie because of material shortages during the war.

Future U.S. President Ronald Reagan is in the identification the Japanese Zero (educational film) (1942) as a young driver to recognize the difference between a P-40 and a Japanese Zero learns. On this movie mistakes Reagan a friend P-40 Japanese for Zero and tries to shoot him. end Reagan gets a chance to shoot a real zero.

In the film, God Is My Co-Pilot (1945), to Robert Lee Scott Jr. based on the book “The Flying Tigers and USAAF pilots them in the Republic of China and Burma, a mix of real P-40 and replace “film” presented P-40.

In Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970), P-40 in the attack on Pearl Harbor, both the amount represented in the field and surged to shoot blanks.

Panavia Tornado aircraft of the Royal Air Force attack ground, the Panavia Tornado, featured extensively in television pilot produced Strike Force in the 1990s for ITV in the UK. Strike Force is not produced in series.

Transformers Darkwing disguises himself as a tornado Panavia.P

Fighter Squadron (1948, color) Director: Raoul Walsh Cast : Edmond O’Brien, Robert Stack. Represents a unit of P-47 Thunderbolt inspired fourth Fighter Group (sometimes called “Blakeslee’s Bachelors known). The fourth FG flew P-47 in combat from April 1943 to March 1944 when she converted to P, 51 Mustang. In this film, the German Bf 109 are painted P-51 actually. Much of what was shown with the P-47 (for example, fighter escort all the way to Berlin to rescue a pilot over the territory, enemy landing and her friend to pick him up) actually happened with P-51s in real life.

Czech composer Bohuslav Martin praised the plane with his Scherzo for orchestra. It was 19th December 1945 in Washington, DC.chanson

Steve Earle Johnny Come Lately “is about an American P-47 pilots during World War II, it contains a verse” My P-47 is a boat very well / you a tour Comin ‘Cross Channel last trip was. “

P -51 Mustang

The P-51 Mustang was introduced to fly in the film The honor.

Percival Proctor

The most important of the real aircraft Nevil Shute’s Round the Bend is a war surplus Percival Proctor, who uses the protagonist Lin Shak Constantine (also known as Connie Shaklin) Tour in Asia, to spread his teachings. At the end of the book, Proctor is the basis of a shrine to his new faith and Shaklin is throw in an incomplete in a state of repair for pilgrims to set.

In 1968, three guards with inverted gull wings and other cosmetic changes Junkers Ju 87 of rebuilt during the Battle of Britain film.

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