Amerika, 1927. Charles Lindbergh droomt ervan ooit de Atlantische Oceaan over te steken in een vliegtuig. Charles is er van overtuigd dat het een haalbaar plan is, op voorwaarde dat het met een eenmotorig vliegtuigje kan.
Jim Gordon voert het bevel over een eenheid van de beroemde Flying Tigers, de American Volunteer Group die tegen de Japanners in China vocht vóór de Amerikaanse deelname aan de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Gordon moet zijn in de minderheid zijnde groep jachtpiloten tegen een overweldigende overmacht op pad sturen, terwijl hij moet jongleren met de uiteenlopende persoonlijkheden en problemen van zijn medevliegers.
In 1945, a group of Australian soldiers inadvertently stumbled across Amelia Earhart's downed airplane in the jungles of Papua New Guinea. Now, a team of specialists will use the soldiers' exclusive testimony and an old patrol map to find the plane again.
Het verhaal van de legendarische Amerikaanse piloot Amelia Earhart. Zij verdween in 1937 op mysterieuze wijze boven de Pacifische Oceaan tijdens een poging om rond de wereld te vliegen.
Aviator Marie Vallières de Beaumont goes on a journey to find her lover Bill Lancaster after his plane disappears in the Sahara. After her plane is forced down in the Ténéré she meets Lieutenant Antoine Chauvet of the French Camel Corps who joins in the hunt for Lancaster. As the two endure hardships in the desert, they begin to develop feelings for each other.
Heiress learns to fly from aeronautical engineer. Things get complicated as their affair progresses.
This is the story of the historic 1938 flight of Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan. Mr. Corrigan starred in this film, which chronicled his infamous flight. On July 17, 1938, Mr. Corrigan loaded 320 gallons of gasoline (40 hours worth) into the tiny, single engine plane. While expressing his intent to fly west to Long Beach, CA, Mr. Corrigan flew out of Floyd Bennett Field heading east over the Atlantic. Instrumentation in the plane included two compasses (both malfunctioned) and a turn-and-bank indicator. The cabin door was held shut with baling wire. Nearly 29 hours later, he landed in Baldonnel near Dublin. He forever claimed to be surprised at arriving in Ireland rather than California. He returned to the US as a hero, with a ticker tape parade in New York and received numerous medals and awards.
An inventor and his lanky girlfriend set an altitude record in his winged contraption.
Two former WWI aces from opposite sides, Bill Ramsey and Otto Shumann, in the best tradition of Eddie Rickenbacker and the Red Baron, barnstorm their way across the Poverty Row skies of middle-America while competing for daredevil honors and the favors of the lovely Eve.
An orphaned girl is taken in by a snobbish family at the insistence of their rich, crotchety uncle, even as her devoted aviator godfather fights for custody.
A fictionalized biopic about aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart. A female pilot breaks the Los Angeles to New York record and attracts the interest of the U.S. Navy, who want to send her on a spy mission.
The story of flyer Amy Johnson the girl from Yorkshire who won the hearts of the British public in the 1930s with her record-breaking solo flights around the world. Her marriage to fellow aviator Jim Mallison was less noteworthy.
"Mitch" Mitchell is an aviator who has been hired to take a child in a guardianship suit out of California into Mexico. He is accompanied by Maxine Rush, the secretary of the head of a private-detective agency who has been hired to care for the kid until the suit is over. (Overview written by Les Adams )
In France during World War I, a charming farm girl keeps a squadron of English pilots in good spirits as best as she can. She falls for a handsome newcomer who is already engaged.
In 1928 verwerft Amelia Earhart bekendheid door als passagier een transatlantische vlucht te ondernemen. In 1937 ondernemen zij en haar navigator Fred Noonan haar langste vlucht: een poging om de wereld rond. Het vliegtuig verdwijnt echter daarbij.
In 1895 trotseert de Indiase jongen Shiv Talpade in Mumbai de Britse overheersing en de schaarse financiële middelen - en natuurkunde - om 's werelds eerste vliegtuig te bouwen.
Biografie over de vrouwelijke pionier in de luchtvaart Florence 'Pancho' Lowe Barnes. Na een huwelijk met Rankin Barnes, begint Pancho zich te interesseren in het vliegen van kleine vliegtuigen. Ze wordt onder meer gevraagd door Howard Hughes om aan stuntvliegen te doen in zijn film Hells Angels.
An RAF squadron is brought down over occupied France. The flyers get to Paris in spite of the fact that the youngest, Baby, is injured. He must be hidden and his wounds cared for. The Gestapo has already issued orders for their arrest.
The Amazing Howard Hughes is a 1977 television movie about American aviation pioneer and filmmaker Howard Hughes, based on the book by Hughes' business partner Noah Dietrich. The film starred Tommy Lee Jones, Ed Flanders, and Tovah Feldshuh.
WWI flyer Eddie Rickenbaker remembers his life which brought him from a car salesman, race driver and pilot in WWI, to an important person in the early years of civil airline service, after his plane crashed in the South Pacific in late 1942.