They don't make movies like this anymore. No Highway In the Sky is an unusual film and is hard to classify into a genre. There are elements of comedy and disaster thriller, but at its heart it's simply the story of a scientist unsuccessfully trying to ...read the complete No Highway movie review at At-A-Glance Film Reviews
This is a personal favorite. The author of the book, Nevil Shute, was an aircraft engineer and worked on the Airship R100. He also worked with the famous inventor Barnes Wallis. These facts give the film some credibility in regards to metallergy. Reading ...
The scene in which James Stewart retracts the airplane's landing gear while it's parked on the ground is absolutely classic -- brief but memorably stunning. It must have been astounding on the big screen in 1951. ...
On November 12, 2002, flight 587 took off from New York's JFK airport, only to crash in Belle Harbor, Queens. The tail had separated from the aircraft. ...