Flights of Fancy: 10 Great Airplane Movies

Motion pictures and airplanes were made-up round the same time, therefore it’s no marvel that a history of the medium is additionally a history of its fascination with motor-powered flight. Movies regarding flying are with us from the silent era through this week’s unharness of Disney’s Planes.

It’s virtually as if film and airplanes are competitive  in a very century-longrace. On the one hand, the flicks could struggle to stay up with planes, straining to approximate the sensations of flight – the speed, the moving motion through three-dimensional area, the miles-high perspective, the ostensible freedom from gravity. On the opposite hand, planes square measure subject to human and mechanical error, therefore typically they falter stunningly before an unblinking camera.

Maybe that’s why numerous of the nice films regarding however awing flight is – just like the ones within the following gallery – conjointly depict ugly crashes and accidents. It’s virtually as if we have a tendency to can’t imagine the glory of flight (and of the human ingenuity that produces it possible) while not conjointly imagining the Icarus-like penalization for our arrogance in daring to soar.

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