Well, sorta. I watched a 1997 Steven Seagal movie on TV tonight, Fire Down Below. It starts out with Seagal flying a Husky around low and slow, including some nice footage of him zooming along a river with a nice pull-up over a waterfall. Cool!
Didn't seem to have anything to do with the movie plot, except to maybe show what a renaissance man his character is. Later in the film he picked up a guitar and picked & grinned right along with a bluegrass band when the guitar's owner tipped over from, shall we say, over-lubrication.
I was waiting for the Seagal character to then paint some still-lifes or sing some opera or something, but after the guitar business he just went back to what he does best (kicking multiple asses).
For fun, I looked up the tailnumber of the Husky-- it was de-registered a few years later & exported to japan.

Eric

My favorite backcountry movie clip was in Air America where Mel Gibson lands some cargo plane on a jungle strip in South America. It was on the side of a hill, and very short.

tom

I caught a couple of episodes of Wings Over Canada on the local PBS station a few years ago and really enjoyed them. I haven't been able to find regular programming in my area, so I've gotten a bunch of their videos. Fun stuff! http://www.wingsovercanada.ca/


CAVU

Have you seen the two John wayne movies that have been released just a year or so ago. THE HIGH AND THE MIGHTY and ISLAND IN THE SKY They are both made froom Ernie Gann books and he was the aviation advisor on the films. He didn't let them Hollywood the flying sceens up. They have been in moth balls for 50 years, and have some great flying in them. Bob

That Mel Gibson Air America thing as I recall used a Pilatus Porter. Some of those in Southeast Asia were actually built under license by Fairchild. Just googled it up, besides mini-freighters, there was an AU-23A Fairchild "Peacemaker", fitted with quite a variety of ordinance for all sorts of escort, close-air support,recon, and FAC duties.
There was a Porter in a minor role at the start of one of the Pierce Brosnan James Bond movies- Tomorrow Never Dies maybe. It flies off a big dam or something with no one on board (pilot was shot?). Bond rides a motorcycle off the dam and "flies" skydiver-style down and into the big sidedoor, pulls the thing out of a big hairy VNE-plus dive, and flies away home while the dam blows up. Maybe just a little far-fetched
but fun to watch.

Eric