Power Dive (1941)

O livro de Tom Wolfe que conta a história do programa espacial norte-americano foi escrito como um romance, e o filme tem a mesma qualidade ficcional. Ele cobre desde a quebra da barreira do som por Chuck Yeager até aos astronautas da Mercury 7, mostrando que ninguém tinha a menor ideia de como executar um programa espacial ou como selecionar as pessoas para participarem. Os sete eleitos são Alan Shepard, John Glenn, Gordon Cooper, Gus Grissom, Scott Carpenter, Wally Schirra e Deke Slayton. Emocionante, engraçado, charmoso e eletrizante ao mesmo tempo.

Jack Putter se sente muito bem hoje, pelo menos para um hipocondríaco. Mas algo novo está acontecendo, ele começa a ouvir vozes. "Estou possuído!", ele diz. A voz que Jack ouve é do piloto da Marinha Tuck Pendleton que foi submetido a uma miniaturização, para um projeto secreto, e acidentalmente injetado em Jack. Antes que possa dizer alguma coisa seu improvável companheiro realizará a mais incrível fuga da sua vida.

In 1960, a pilot testing an experimental rocket powered aircraft accidentally flies into the future and finds himself in a sealed city whose people suspect he is a spy from outside their walls, but who want to keep him to procreate with the ruler's daughter because the majority of the inhabitants are sterile.

To avoid the life-threatening dangers of manned space exploration, Professor Nordstrom creates highly advanced form of artificial intelligence capable of piloting a starship to other worlds. In order to transmit alien data, the extraordinary robot is infused with a powerful telepathic device that enables it to instantly read and even feel emotions. Danger strikes when a sinister band of covert agents kidnaps Gadge, the professor's 10-year-old grandson. But Gadge has a powerful ally. For he has developed a psychic, emotional bond with his grandfather's robot. And now Gadge's captors must suffer the wrath of his protective friend. They must face a mechanical monstrosity bent on a killing rampage of revenge and destruction.

The efforts of test pilot John Mitchell to make a better life for his wife Mary and their two children seem doomed to failure and he blames himself. At the Conway Aero-Manufacturing Company of Wolverhampton, Mitchell is to take the company's new rocket-propulsion transport plane up for tests, fully loaded and carrying two important passengers - Ministry official Crabtree and buyer's representative Ashmore. Mitchell learns from his boss, Reg Conway, that if Ashmore does not recommend the plane, the company will be out of business and Mitchell out of a job, since the plane is not even insured as the firm's entire capital is tied up in the plane. Aloft, an engine catches fire and the passengers and other crew bail out, but Mitchell refuses to obey orders to jettison the plane in the Irish Sea.

Jim is a test pilot. His wife Ann and best friend Gunner try their best to keep him sober. But the life of a test pilot is anything but safe.

X-15 is a 1961 movie that tells a fictionalized account of the X-15 research rocket plane, the men who flew it and the women who loved them.

Jerry tries to out compete his older brother Cass, a lieutenant Naval aviator. Cass is both tough on and protective of his brother, but Jerry can give it right back.

A test pilot and his weather observer develop a "robot" control so airplanes can be flown without pilots, but enemy agents get wind of it and try to steal it or destroy it.

Os planos de Mac de se estabelecer e criar uma família, são interrompidos pela Guerra da Coreia. Ele vai como um piloto de caça e retorna como um herói, o primeiro Áz triplo da guerra. Seus vizinhos construíram um lar para Mac e sua dedicada esposa e seus três filhos. Então ele recebe uma oferta para ser o piloto de provas do novo Sabre Jets. Sua esposa fica apreensiva, mas sabe que não pode prender o seu homem.

A draftswoman, the sister of an aging, alcoholic pilot, secretly uses her brother's ideas to solve design problems for an experimental military plane in an attempt to save the company and salvage her brother's reputation.

A corrida espacial vive seus momentos mais cruciais e os Estados Unidos lançam seu primeiro foguete pilotado por um corajoso homem, o tenente Dan Prescott, que atravessa a atmosfera atingindo quase 300.000 milhas no espaço. A façanha histórica porém acaba trágica quando seu foguete perde o controle após atravessar uma estranha nuvem tóxica. Dado como morto, Dan na verdade sofreu uma terrível mutação, transformando-se num monstro sanguinário que volta à Terra em busca de vítimas.

Set just before the outbreak of WWII, this is the story of a test pilot who works for the (unnamed) enemy. Made in 1939, by the time it was released in 1940, war had been declared.

Tortured into a false confession while a POW in Korea, Major Lincoln Bond returns to active service as a test pilot. Determined to clear his name, Bond battles a hard-nosed base commander, prejudiced officers and his own insecurities.

A disgraced pilot determines to regain the respect of both his son, now a test pilot for the Army, and the men he once flew with.

In this action film, a courageous test pilot works with experimental aircraft for the US Armed Forces. When an important airplane manufacturer dies, his daughter is left to run the company. The company seems to be producing dangerous prototypes, so the woman decides to close the company.

A vida do astronauta norte-americano Neil Armstrong e sua jornada para se tornar o primeiro homem a andar na Lua. Os sacrifícios e custos de Neil e toda uma nação durante uma das mais perigosas missões na história das viagens espaciais.

The second of three pilot shorts that eventually became the 1989 movie Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland.