Airplane for me too. They just got the continuous satire so right!!

For "straight scenes", it's a toss-up between Top Gun (splendidly done but the flying was rather unbelievable) and "Always", an early Spielberg movie it is fashionable to put down. Don't know why - the flying was superb, especially Holly Hunter landing that B-26 (but I think the chief pilot of aerial forest firefighters Hawkins & Power, who the movie was based on, might just have stood in for her!)

And I think a very honourable mention should go to "Memphis Belle". Not the 1990 travesty but the 1943 original documentary, directed by William Wyler, which included real (colour) footage shot from B-17s of them being attacked by Luftwaffe aircraft and shot up from the ground, and a narration that stops you in your tracks.

(Edited to add the last paragraph)

[This message has been edited by WHBM (edited 06-21-2003).]