Palavra-chave Aviation

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.

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 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.

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.

"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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

O gerente de uma das minas de ouro mais importantes da África do Sul se une a um grupo de homens sem escrúpulos para fechar o lugar e, com isso, aumentar o preço do minérios com a redução da produção.

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?

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 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.

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.

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.

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'.

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.

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.

The Aviators is an award-winning weekly documentary-lifestyle-science TV series featuring interesting people, the latest aircraft, current technology and fly-in destinations. The show's site describes subject matter as follows: "We will take you behind the scenes to show you how airline pilots train, how planes are built, and how ATC works. We will profile aviation businesses and showcase aviation products. We will provide safety tips for private and recreational pilots and career tips for professional pilots." The Aviators premiered on the Global Television Network on Saturday, September 4, 2010. It could also be seen on CHEK-TV in Canada and is distributed to all 356 Public Broadcasting Stations in the United States for broadcast in numerous markets starting in September 2010. On September 1, 2010 the producers announced that a deal had been signed with Discovery Channel Asia that saw the series broadcast overseas in the spring of 2011. In the first six months after its premiere, the show aired almost 8,000 times across North America - an average of over 40 times a day. The Aviators launched on Hulu in February 2011 and was viewed over 32,000 times in just two weeks. In March 2011 producers announced some changes for season two including the addition of country music singer George Canyon to the cast as a guest host for the season. The current season's premiere date is September 16, 2013. Production for a fifth season has begun, and is planned to air in North America in September 2014.

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.

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.

Australia's aviation history is a saga of daring feats, can-do attitude, pig-headed visionaries, iron-fisted politicians and warring pilots; of humble beginnings and mega deals.

EMMY-nominated PBS documentary covering the history of American aviation, from the Wright Brothers to the very frontiers of space.

This new series features the fascinating stories of three of the most important commercial aircraft ever to take to the skies.

Examining the construction of the massive jet and the engineering and logistical challenges faced by its builders.

Faith of My Fathers is a 2005 American television film, directed by Peter Markle. Based on the 1999 memoir of the same name by United States Senator and former United States Navy aviator John McCain, it aired on A&E Network on Memorial Day, May 30, 2005. Filmed in Louisiana, Faith of My Fathers is based on the story of Lieutenant Commander John McCain's experiences as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam for five and a half years during the Vietnam War, interleaved with his memories of growing up in a heritage rich with military service. Shawn Hatosy is cast as John McCain, with Scott Glenn as his father, Admiral Jack McCain. Of the North Vietnamese captors, Chi Moui Lo played the keyman "Prick" and Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa played prison commander "Cat".

The Australian International Airshow, also called the Avalon Airshow, is a large air show held biennially at Avalon Airport, between Melbourne and Geelong in Victoria. The event has a strong focus on military aviation, featuring aircraft from the Royal Australian Air Force, United States Navy and the United States Air Force. Representatives from other air arms have also appeared at the airshow on many occasions, including aircraft from the Royal Air Force, Japan Air Self-Defense Force, Republic of Singapore Air Force and many others. It has been said by air show organisers to be the largest air show in the southern hemisphere.

Discover the excitement of flying as we reveal the most remarkable aircraft ever built and the aeronautical advancements that shaped flying history in Flying Through Time. Audiences will marvel at historic airships, be wowed by war planes and delight at luxury jetliners.