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Favorite Movies of Aviation Geeks

5/07/2007 at 3:32 PM
Tags: Lists, Movies, Museums, Airplanes (all tags)

Another day, another new press release announcing an obscure winner of an obscure award, voted on by an obscure audience. We're kind of over travel awards, but int he case of great aviation movies, why not trust some true aviation nuts? It only makes sense.

Visitors to a website maintained by the Experimental Aircraft Association voted Top Gun into the top spot, crowning it the best aviation movie evah:

“Top Gun” was one of 10 finalists in the online poll at www.airventure.org. It collected more than 20.5 percent of the more than 10,000 votes cast, ahead of the classic 1949 film “Twelve O’Clock High” (17.7 percent) and more recent World War II epic “Memphis Belle” from 1990 (12.2 percent).

The finalists were the 10 most-nominated films by EAA members earlier this year, who submitted more than 140 aviation movies. Others in the final poll included “Battle of Britain” (1969) with 11.8 percent; “Spirit of St. Louis” (1957) and “The Great Waldo Pepper” (1975), each with 8.6 percent; “Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines” (1965) 7.1 percent; “The Flight of the Phoenix” (1965) 5.2 percent; and “The High and the Mighty” (1954) with 4.0 percent.

The EAA runs an aviation museum in Oshkosh, WI.

[Photo: Yahoo! Movies]

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