Movie I Wanted Wings.

[Tony Drago]

 Was on YouTube and typed in the movie " I wanted Wings " It popped up and was able to see it. Pretty good quality for viewing. Every now and then some of these old movies get taken off because of copy right infringement, then they show up again.

[Tom Foster]

It was also on Turner Classic Movies last weekend.
In the lead-in introduction, Ben Mankiewitz mentioned that one of the male leads actually had been a combat pilot in the Great War, and the other male lead had never been in an airplane, and was taught by the first guy, so all the aerial shots are actually them flying.
Another point of interest for me was that it was filmed in the area that later became Randolph Field, 'The West Pont of the Air.' My junior high homeroom teacher, Mrs. Cornelia Randolph, was Lt. Randolph's widow.

[Tony Drago]

Tom. That Naval ace was Wayne Morris.  " Below copied from IMDb"
  Morris was trained as a military pilot, and after a year as a flight instructor, he eventually went into combat in the Pacific theater as a F6F Hellcat pilot stationed on the carrier Essex. Morris' combat record included 57 missions and seven kills, qualifying him as an ace, becoming one of the war's first aces.Three of his planes were so badly damaged by enemy fire during his combat duty that they were dumped into the seas as "unfit for duty."
 Buried at Arlington National Cemetery with full military honors. His brother, Richard, a B-17 pilot shot down during WWII is also resting there.
 

[Dave Harmon]

I skipped the sappy parts but I was digging the chicks and the good flying scenes.

[GERALD WIMMER]

Thanks Tony A great family movie my wife enjoyed as well my boys. A better story line and cast compared to a few other period aviation related movies (of which there are many!) .
Regards Gerald

[Avaiojet]

"The High and the Mighty" is the movie that gave me my inspiration to become a pilot.