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unusual facts about The Aviator



Bugle Call Rag

The song appears in several Hollywood films, including The Big Broadcast of 1937, Orchestra Wives (1942), Stage Door Canteen (1943), The Benny Goodman Story (1956) and The Aviator (2004).

Jenny Fulle

At Imageworks, Fulle worked on over thirty films, including What Lies Beneath, Spider-Man 1, 2, and 3, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Aviator, I Am Legend, Open Season (film), Surf's Up (film) and many more.

Kerri Randles

She collaborated on the Banksy, Barely Legal, Los Angeles show in 2006, and also produced The Sex Lives of Mannequins (Chicago and LA), for Charles Evans, Jr., producer of The Aviator.

National Airline History Museum

It also appeared in the 2004 movie The Aviator, directed by Martin Scorsese, which depicts the early years (late 1920s to the mid-1940s) of legendary film director and aviator Howard Hughes; the film starred Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Beckinsale, and Cate Blanchett.

PVR Pictures

It has distributed over 200 Hollywood films, including ‘The Aviator’, ‘Mission: Impossible III’, ‘Kill Bill’ ‘The Hurt Locker’, ‘The Twilight Saga’ and ‘Chicago’; over 100 Bollywood films, including blockbusters such as ‘Ghajini’, ‘Golmaal Returns’, ‘All The Best’, ‘Don', ‘Sarkar Raj’, ‘Omkara’ and nearly 25 Regional films since its inception.

San Bernardino International Airport

The airport has served as the filming location for both the 2001 movie The Fast and the Furious and the 2004 Martin Scorsese film The Aviator using a Lockheed Constellation preserved by the Airline History Museum, and flown in for the shoot, were done at San Bernardino International, with one hangar "dressed" as a Trans World Airlines facility.

Serbia Film Commission

The region of the former Yugoslavia, particularly Serbia’s capital Belgrade and Avala Film Studios, served as locations for a number epic American films, including Long Ships, Kelly's Heroes, The Aviator, Shatterhand, Castle Keep, Genghis Khan and The Fortunate Pilgrim starring Sophia Loren.

Stanley DeSantis

He appeared in 15 motion pictures, the last of which being The Aviator, in which he portrayed Louis B. Mayer.

Will Hare

Hare's other distinctive film credits include Black Oak Conspiracy (1977), The Electric Horseman (1979), Eyes of Fire (1983), Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984), The Aviator (1985) he also had a small appearance in the 1985 film, Back to the Future as Old Man Peabody.


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Aviator Nunatak

It was named by the Southern Party of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (1961–62) for the aviators of Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd's flight to the South Pole in 1929.

Blériot 110

By this time, the aircraft had been named Joseph Le Brix in honour of the aviator who had perished flying the 110's rival Dewoitine D.33.

Charles Sweeney

Major General Charles W. Sweeney (December 27, 1919 – July 16, 2004) was an officer in the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II and the pilot who flew Bocks Car carrying the Fat Man atomic bomb to Nagasaki on August 9, 1945.

French aircraft carrier Béarn

The aviator Paul Teste conducted a series of landing experiments on the temporary flight deck that concluded in October.

Gee Bee Air Rally

It is set in the 1920s and early 1930s in which the player is the pilot of a small airplane.

Lindbergh Boulevard

Lindbergh Boulevard named after the aviator, Charles Lindbergh, is a section of U.S. Route 61 and U.S. Route 67 that extends through Missouri.

Markham Main Colliery

The Chairman of this company was William Humble, whose son was Bill Humble the aviator and granddaughter is Kate Humble.

Nguyễn Văn Kiệt

He courageously volunteered to accompany a United States SEAL Advisor Thomas R. Norris (Medal Of Honor) in an extremely hazardous attempt to reach the aviator, who was physically unable to move toward friendly positions.

Roland Garros

French Open, a major (grand slam) tennis tournament also known as Roland Garros, named after the aviator

Roland Garros Airport, the airport in Saint-Denis, Réunion, named after the aviator

St Clears

The exhibition contains some photographs of famous people including the aviator Amy Johnson, World War I flying ace Wing Commander Ira Jones, and racing drivers Sir Malcolm Campbell and J. G. Parry-Thomas, who both attempted world land speed records at Pendine Sands.

The Aeroplanes At Brescia

Among other participants, they saw Louis Blériot, the aviator famous for the first flight across the English Channel.

The Spirit of Charles Lindbergh

In it, Welles sits behind a typewriter at his desk and speaks of the human spirit, quoting the aviator Charles Lindbergh.