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User currently offlineL-188 From United States of America, joined Jul 1999, 29350 posts, RR: 62
Posted (12 years 1 month 1 week 6 days 9 hours ago) and read 1249 times:

Ok guys I have decided to perpetuate the current wave of trivia on this forum by comming up with some questions of my own.

In this case the questions will deal with Airline movies....

1. From the movie Always.

Richard Dryfuss flew tanker 57. What type of A/C was tanker 57.

2. From The movie Those magnificent men and their flying machines

The American team fly a "Wright Biplane". In reality it was a reproduction of what type

3. From the movie Midway

What type of Aircraft did Charlton Heston fly?

4. From the movie The Great Escape

What type aircraft did James Garner attempt to fly out of Germany with?

5. From the movie Airport

What airline did George Kennedy(Joe Patroni) work for?

6. From the movie High Road to China

What type aircraft did Tom Selleck fly?

7. From the movie Good Morning Vietnam

Robin Williams flew into Nam on a DC-8 operated by ___________

8 and 9 from the movie Air America

Robert Downey Jr crashed a ________ Into a ___________

10. From the Movie Top Gun

Viper flew what type Aircraft




I hope yall have fun....I'll see if I remember to post the answers tonight.



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User currently offlineKonaB777 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 1, posted (12 years 1 month 1 week 6 days 8 hours ago) and read 1220 times:

For the Airport one, George Kennedy worked for Trans World Airlines.

User currently offlineThom@s From Norway, joined Oct 2000, 11949 posts, RR: 50
Reply 2, posted (12 years 1 month 1 week 6 days 8 hours ago) and read 1215 times:

eh..if I knew the answers to all these questions, I'd cut down on the aviation related films.

I think nr 10 is a F-14 Tomcat. ( He might have flown the A-4 though, not sure.)

Thom@s


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User currently offlineIkarus From United Kingdom, joined Jan 2001, 3524 posts, RR: 2
Reply 3, posted (12 years 1 month 1 week 6 days 7 hours ago) and read 1208 times:

For airport, it is "Trans Global Airlines". not TWA....


User currently offlineL-188 From United States of America, joined Jul 1999, 29350 posts, RR: 62
Reply 4, posted (12 years 1 month 1 week 5 days 21 hours ago) and read 1189 times:

Well so far we have had one definant right answer to one question.

Lets get some more guesses.



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User currently offlineFlyBoeing From United States of America, joined May 2000, 866 posts, RR: 2
Reply 5, posted (12 years 1 month 1 week 5 days 11 hours ago) and read 1182 times:

Here are my guesses...

1. From the movie Always.

Richard Dryfuss flew tanker 57. What type of A/C was tanker 57.

KC-135? He's a bit old to have flown the KC-97

2. From The movie Those magnificent men and their flying machines

The American team fly a "Wright Biplane". In reality it was a reproduction of what type

Curtiss JN-4?

3. From the movie Midway

What type of Aircraft did Charlton Heston fly?

SBD Dauntless... he survives, right? He has to have flown the Dauntless, because the TBDs get wrecked by the fighters.

4. From the movie The Great Escape

What type aircraft did James Garner attempt to fly out of Germany with?

From the book, I think that this was an ME-109

5. From the movie Airport

What airline did George Kennedy(Joe Patroni) work for?

6. From the movie High Road to China

What type aircraft did Tom Selleck fly?

UNKNOWN

7. From the movie Good Morning Vietnam

Robin Williams flew into Nam on a DC-8 operated by ___________

Braniff?

8 and 9 from the movie Air America

Robert Downey Jr crashed a ________ Into a ___________

There's a C-123 Provider in the movie and it gets crashed but I don't know into what.

10. From the Movie Top Gun

Viper flew what type Aircraft

A-4 Skyhawk

User currently offlineSccutler From United States of America, joined Jan 2000, 5091 posts, RR: 28
Reply 6, posted (12 years 1 month 1 week 4 days 23 hours ago) and read 1164 times:

Don't know nearly all, but ...

1. From the movie Always.

Richard Dryfuss flew tanker 57. What type of A/C was tanker 57.

B-25 (tanker conversion)

2. From The movie Those magnificent men and their flying machines

The American team fly a "Wright Biplane". In reality it was a reproduction of what type

Jenny

3. From the movie Midway

What type of Aircraft did Charlton Heston fly?



4. From the movie The Great Escape

What type aircraft did James Garner attempt to fly out of Germany with?

Messerschmitt BF-108 (the trainer- it was not a 109)

5. From the movie Airport

What airline did George Kennedy(Joe Patroni) work for?

TWA [Trans Global was the fictitious airline Vernon Demarest (Dean Martin) flew for.

6. From the movie High Road to China

What type aircraft did Tom Selleck fly?

Gypsy Moth?

7. From the movie Good Morning Vietnam

Robin Williams flew into Nam on a DC-8 operated by ___________

Should be Braniff, but I think they used United.

8 and 9 from the movie Air America

Robert Downey Jr crashed a ________ Into a ___________

<??>

10. From the Movie Top Gun

Viper flew what type Aircraft

A-4


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User currently offlineL-188 From United States of America, joined Jul 1999, 29350 posts, RR: 62
Reply 7, posted (12 years 1 month 1 week 4 days 19 hours ago) and read 1159 times:

I think I am going to keep this post up over the weekend to see if we get some more hits

As far as answers go.....

I am not going to say who is in the lead with the most correct answers but.......

We have had so far 4 questions answered correctly and three that I consider near misses....One of those I am going to double check before I post the answers.

But I will pass this information on to FlyBoeing....Heston was killed in the movie Midway

To those of you who haven't answered yet....Please take a guess and see how you do.




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User currently offlineL-188 From United States of America, joined Jul 1999, 29350 posts, RR: 62
Reply 8, posted (12 years 1 month 1 week 3 days 17 hours ago) and read 1151 times:

Well guys it looks like my attempt at trivia is a bust this time....

Any thoughts about making it a multiple choice next time.

Anyway here are the answers:

1. From the movie Always.

Richard Dryfuss flew tanker 57. What type of A/C was tanker 57.

A Douglas B-26(or A-26 if you prefer) converted for Firefighting

2. From The movie Those magnificent men and their flying machines

The American team fly a "Wright Biplane". In reality it was a reproduction of what type

A Bristol Boxkite....circa 1911

3. From the movie Midway

What type of Aircraft did Charlton Heston fly?

A Douglas SBD Dauntlass

4. From the movie The Great Escape

What type aircraft did James Garner attempt to fly out of Germany with?

A Bucker BV-181 Bestmann
The fixed gear is the givaway

5. From the movie Airport

What airline did George Kennedy(Joe Patroni) work for?

TWA
The fictional airline that was featured in the movie was Trans Global

6. From the movie High Road to China

What type aircraft did Tom Selleck fly?

Tiger Moth
Another one of the close answers

7. From the movie Good Morning Vietnam

Robin Williams flew into Nam on a DC-8 operated by ___________

United

8 and 9 from the movie Air America

Robert Downey Jr crashed a ________ Into a ___________

8 Pilatus PC-6 Turbine Porter
9 Fairchild C-123K

10. From the Movie Top Gun

Viper flew what type Aircraft

Viper (played by Tom Skerritt) flew the A-4
I suppose that techincally we could say that he was also qualified in the F-14 because he offered to be Mavericks back seater after Goose was killed. But he never flew it in the film

For those of you who took guesses I hope you had fun and thanks for participating.


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User currently offlineUSAFHummer From United States of America, joined May 2000, 10685 posts, RR: 54
Reply 9, posted (12 years 1 month 1 week 3 days 2 hours ago) and read 1141 times:

7. UAL DC-8
10. A-4

Greg


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User currently offlineFightingfalcon From Switzerland, joined Feb 2001, 787 posts, RR: 1
Reply 10, posted (12 years 1 month 1 week 2 days 17 hours ago) and read 1132 times:

I don't know one of these movies, except Top Gun, which I've heard of, but I don't know it.
About Top Gun I thought they're flying Tomcats, but now I see USAFHummer saying A-4. I don't know, as said above I didn't see this movie.


Martin




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