Em 2009, o piloto «Sully» Sullenberger aterrou de emergência no rio Hudson, salvando a vida dos 155 passageiros a bordo. Mas enquanto Sully é acarinhado pelo público e os media, tem início uma investigação sobre o caso que ameaça a carreira do piloto.
O filme retrata a ascensão e queda mediática do milionário Howard Hughes, que começou por herdar dos pais uma importante firma de ferramentas para a expandir de forma extraordinária. Pioneiro da aviação, foi dos primeiros empresários a apostar verdadeiramente no avião a jacto e quebrou recordes de velocidade aos comandos de um avião. Comprou e desenvolveu a empresa aeronáutica TWA, roubando o monopólio dos céus à prestigiada e poderosa Panam. Também foi director e realizador de cinema, um pioneiro do cinema sonoro graças ao seu filme "Hells Angels", além de ter mantido casos amorosos com diversas grandes actrizes da era dourada de Hollywood.
Na Nova Zelândia uma garota de 13 anos, Amy Alden, perde sua mãe em um acidente de automóvel. Assim ela vai morar no Canadá com o pai, Thomas, um excêntrico inventor. Lá ela encontra alguns ovos, que tinham caído de uma árvore que fora derrubada. Criando todas as condições propícias, ela consegue chocar os ovos e de repente se torna "mãe" de uma ninhada de gansos selvagens. Acontece que estes pássaros são aves migratórias, assim ela e o pai tentam ensiná-los o caminho de uma reserva florestal, que fica há alguns dias de viagem.
"Os gloriosos Malucos das Máquinas Voadoras" é um filme britânico de 1965, do género comédia de aventura, dirigido por Ken Annakin. O filme é baseado em fato real: uma corrida aérea entre Londres e Paris em 1910.
Um pequeno avião particular choca com um 747 e acaba matando e incapacitando a tripulação. Uma hospedeira de bordo, seguindo instruções via rádio, assume o control da aeronave. É então elaborado um plano quase suicida em que, através de um buraco na cabine de comando, um piloto é enviado para resgatar o avião.
O empresário Mike (Pierce Brosnan) é do ramo da aviação e tem a tecnologia como sua aliada. Mas seus negócios e sua vida ficam em perigo quando um técnico de informática de sua empresa começa a fazer um jogo obsessivo com Mike.
O alvo: um depósito de mísseis em Hanoi. O avião: o Intruder A-6, um bombardeiro de baixa altitude, com armamento não defensível.
Amelia Earhart (Hilary Swank) foi a primeira mulher a completar a travessia do oceano Atlântico pilotando um avião. Este feito fez com que se tornasse uma celebridade nos Estados Unidos, onde passou a ser chamada de "deusa da luz" devido a sua ousadia e carisma. Seu fascínio pelo perigo inspirou até mesmo a primeira dama Eleanor Roosevelt (Cherry Jones). Casada com George Putnam (Richard Gere), um magnata do mercado editorial, e tendo o piloto Gene Vidal (Ewan McGregor) como seu grande amigo, Amelia decide, em 1937, embarcar na mais arrojada das suas missões, dar a volta ao mundo em um voo a sos.
O Barão Manfred von Richthofen é a mais temido e adorado piloto da força aérea alemã na Primeira Guerra Mundial I. Para ele e para os seus companheiros os combates aéreos são eventos de natureza desportiva, técnica e honra. Mas, depois de se apaixonar pela enfermeira Käte, Manfred percebe que ele só é usado para propaganda. Apanhado entre o seu repúdio pela guerra e a responsabilidade pelo seu esquadrão, von Richthofen prepara-se para voar novamente.
Entre 20 e 21 de Maio de 1927, Charles Lindberg (James Stewart), um piloto de 25 anos, cruzou sozinho o Atlântico no primeiro vôo sem escalas de Nova York até Paris. A viagem durou 33 horas e meia, foi feita em um monomotor e a maioria das pessoas não acreditava no êxito desta travessia, pois seis pilotos morreram tentando. O filme narra este histórico acontecimento e, através de diversos flashbacks, são mostrados momentos marcantes da vida de Lindberg.
Após a Tchecoslováquia ser invadida pelo exército nazista em plena 2ª Guerra Mundial, diversos pilotos tchecos decidem voar até a Inglaterra. Lá eles tomam parte da Real Força Aérea Britânica, a RAF, e passam a combater o próprio exército nazista. Entretanto, ao retornar ao seu país-natal após o término da guerra, dois amigos são presos em um campo de concentração ao serem considerados anti-comunistas.
Para estabelecer as causas de acidente aéreo com 63 vítimas, diretor aéreo investiga o passado do piloto, antigo e confiável companheiro,com o auxílio da única sobrevivente, uma comissária de vôo.
Gu Nanting, the vice minister of passenger flight department of Lu Airlines, is a strict and self-disciplined man, who is known as a mean boss and a devil instructor. The female cargo pilot, Cheng Xiao, is brave and unrestrained. She was about to be promoted to captain when she got transferred to the passenger department due to the company's restructuring. Gu Nanting becomes Cheng Xiao's direct supervisor and mentor, and the two are at odds with each other. Gu Nanting, who has always pursued stability and order, is disrupted time and again by Cheng Xiao, who does not follow the usual rules. The two pilots and their mentor, who have always pursued stability and order, are disrupted time and again by the unorthodox Cheng Xiao. How can they deal with this situation?
In the near future, human inhabitants would have been crowded and congested. It was an urgency to stride out to the universe and find a new home. When everything was under progress in an orderly way, dramatic geological transformations erupted over the courses of decades. Human beings were raped by this disaster and hardly left anything. Until the nature gradually restored calm, people struggled to their feet from ruins and abysses, stepping again onto this familiar but strange earth. But for us people, dominating everything has been rooted into our blood. Are we still masters of this new world?
The dramatized World War II adventures of US Major Gregory "Pappy" Boyington and his Marine Attack Squadron 214, AKA The Black Sheep Squadron.
It is about young people who dream of taking flight in the blue skies and the tests that they encounter when in comes to friendship, romance and career. Xiao Mo is a talented pilot who experiences a blow to his career when a person dies on his watch because of an accident. The person is the mother of Xia Yu who is the successor of an aviation empire. Even though subsequent investigations cleared Xiao Mo of any fault, he resigns from his job due to guilt and chooses to become a mechanic instead. Two years later, Xiao Mo returns to flying and also encounters Xia Yu who's studying to become a pilot as well. The two men find themselves falling for the same woman. To complicate matters, details from two years ago resurface causing the people to suspect Xiao Mo once agai
When the Pillars suddenly appear on Earth, threatening all life, it's only the act of the god Odin that offers humanity salvation. Providing a means of fighting back, he gives Earth the Valkyries, young female pilots with supernatural powers and spirit fighter planes. These skilled troublemakers, all young, risk their lives in a long-running war—but the final battle is fast approaching!
In 1903, not only did the Wright brothers ’plane soar, but a young man named William Boeing stepped out of the Yale University gates. 13 years later, using wood, canvas and wire, the first "Boeing model", the B&W, was born. Boeing has since grown into a huge company and developed countless models, including the 1957-92 passenger jet, the 707. Later, we learn about the Constellation designed by Lockheed in the early 1940s. The fuselage of the machine evokes the graceful form of a dolphin, no wonder that with its beauty it also won the title of "Queen of Heaven". The C-69 was the first model to cross non-stop America, covering the Los Angeles-Washington DC distance in record time of 7 hours and 3 minutes. Connies were used for both military and civilian purposes until the early 1960s. This and many more stories are recounted here in Great Planes.
In order to uncover the "end of the sky," as spoken of in ancient mythology, Kal-el Albus is sent to Isla, an island in the sky. There he attends Cadoques High's Aerial Division, where he enjoys a carefree life with his schoolmates. That is...until a surprise attack by the air tribe drags Isla into a bloody war.
Allison and Will set out on a mission to discover the fabled "peace treasure" in a continent wrought with long-standing conflict between two kingdoms. Their belief and aspirations are carried on by their daughter, Lillia, who strives to bring the warring nations together as a united land. This animated show motivates young viewers to dream of a world that is rid of hostility and disputes brought on by differences in nationality or ideology.
Inoue Momoko admires her late father, who was a pilot. She begins work as a co-pilot at a low-cost airline. Under Captain Shinkai Kohei’s instructions, who knew her father, Inoue Momoko works hard to become a captain and her boyfriend Umino Daisuke supports her dream too. One day, Inoue Momoko has a problem with a passenger complaining about the limit for carry-on baggage. At that time, Katsuki Tetsuya looks at the situation.
AFP: American Fighter Pilot is a reality series broadcast briefly on CBS in 2002. It followed three Air Force officers as they trained to become pilots of F-15 fighter jets at Tyndall Air Force Base outside of Panama City, Florida. The series included footage of their experiences in the air, as well as interactions with their families and instructors. Directors Tony Scott and Ridley Scott were co-executive producers. Unsuccessful in the ratings, the series was cancelled after two episodes.
Gerry Anderson's New Captain Scarlet is a United Kingdom-produced computer-generated imagery action-adventure TV series which debuted in February 2005 as part of the Ministry of Mayhem on ITV. Created by Gerry Anderson, it is a Hypermarionation reboot of the classic 1967 Supermarionation series, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson.
From the first men in their flying machines to World War One, from the first Atlantic crossing to the supersonic era, this is the story of the most daredevil challenges the world has ever known, braved by the men and women who wrote the history of human flight.
Dallas Campbell and Dr Hannah Fry investigate what it takes to get a million people and their luggage off the ground and up in the air. From building the world's biggest passenger plane to navigating through the busiest airport on the planet, to the perils of getting airborne in the coldest city on earth - Dallas and Hannah go to extremes to get under the skin of the remarkable story of departure. You will never look at flying in the same way again.
NASA Apollo astronaut Neil Armstrong adds to his long list of space flight & aviation accomplishments as he takes the controls of a variety of flying machines. Each episode blends historic footage, interviews, and flying. Armstrong takes you on an exhilarating adventure through time.
Terror of the World: The story of a deadly war that intertwines Germany, Poland, Japan, Italy and Spain, and the remorseless development of weapons and bombers.
As 40 Spitfires and Hurricanes assemble for a unique flypast marking the 75th anniversary of Battle of Britain Day, two special programmes commemorate the heroes Churchill famously called 'The Few'.
Ride along with the NTSB and its inter-agency partners as they work together towards determining the probable cause of aircraft accidents. These NTSB investigations provide a window into the integral role of air travel in Alaskan life, while raising awareness that might prevent future accidents.
The story of the people building the AVRO Arrow, an advanced jet fighter-interceptor designed to defend Canada's vast territory during the Cold War. Though the jet was an engineering marvel, cost over-runs, U.S. government pressure from the military industrial complex, and the election of the Progressive Conservative Diefenbaker government, stopped the jet just as it was getting off the ground.
This new series features the fascinating stories of three of the most important commercial aircraft ever to take to the skies.
