Airplane!
Airplane! (titled Flying High! in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Japan and the Philippines) is a 1980 American parody film directed and written by David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker and released by Paramount Pictures. It stars Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty and features Leslie Nielsen, Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Lorna Patterson. The film is a parody of the disaster film genre, particularly the 1957 Paramount film Zero Hour!, from which it borrows the plot and the central characters, as well as many elements from Airport 1975. The film is known for its use of surreal humor and its fast-paced slapstick comedy, including visual and verbal puns and gags.
Airplane! was a critical and financial success, grossing over $83 million in North America alone, against a budget of just $3.5 million. The film's creators received the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Comedy, and nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy and a BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay.
Airplane
An airplane or aeroplane (informally plane) is a powered, fixed-wing aircraft that is propelled forward by thrust from a jet engine or propeller. Airplanes come in a variety of sizes, shapes, and wing configurations. The broad spectrum of uses for airplanes includes recreation, transportation of goods and people, military, and research. Commercial aviation is a massive industry involving the flying of tens of thousands of passengers daily on airliners. Most airplanes are flown by a pilot on board the aircraft, but some are designed to be remotely or computer-controlled.
The Wright brothers invented and flew the first airplane in 1903, recognized as "the first sustained and controlled heavier-than-air powered flight". They built on the works of George Cayley dating from 1799, when he set forth the concept of the modern airplane (and later built and flew models and successful passenger-carrying gliders). Between 1867 and 1896, the German pioneer of human aviation Otto Lilienthal also studied heavier-than-air flight. Following its limited use in World War I, aircraft technology continued to develop. Airplanes had a presence in all the major battles of World War II. The first jet aircraft was the German Heinkel He 178 in 1939. The first jet airliner, the de Havilland Comet, was introduced in 1952. The Boeing 707, the first widely successful commercial jet, was in commercial service for more than 50 years, from 1958 to at least 2013.
Aeroplane (disambiguation)
The term aeroplane (equivalent to "airplane" in U.S. English) typically refers to any powered fixed-wing aircraft.
Aeroplane may also refer to:
Music
Persons
Albums
Songs
See also
Podcasts:
Aeroplane
ALBUMS
- Cafe Puls Hits 10 released: 2010
- Happy F**king Christmas released: 2009
Aeroplane
ALBUMS
- We Can't Fly - The Remixes released: 2012
- In Flight Entertainment released: 2011
- We Can't Fly released: 2010
- Mixmag Presents: Disco Balearica released: 2009
- Wishstar released: 2008
Mixmag Presents: Disco Balearica
Released 2009- Macrobiotic
- Big in Japan
- Afro Comedy
- The Day We Fell in Love
- Burning Feeling
- Paris (Aeroplane remix)
- Connections (Ewan Pearson's Slo NRG remix)
- Rushin to Paradise (Walking These Streets)
- Now Til '69 (Aeroplane remix)
- Sign Of The Times
- I'm in Love With a German Film Star (Jurgen Paape remix)
- Kilometer (Aeroplane 'Italo 84" mix)
- Runaway
- Lion (Bag Raider remix)
- Antibodies
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by Red Hot Chili Peppers
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by Robert Palmer
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by Curt Smith
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by Jethro Tull
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by Imogen Heap
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by Tal Bachman
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by Never Shout Never
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by Keren Ann
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by Admiral Twin
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by Alabaster Box
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by Bjork
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by Psychedelic Furs
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by Aeroplane
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by Reamonn
Aeroplane
by: Red Hot Chili Peppers[chorus]
I like pleasure spiked with pain
And music is my aeroplane
It's my aeroplane
Songbird sweet and sour Jane
And music is my aeroplane
It's my aeroplane
Pleasure spiked with pain
That motherfucker's always spiked with pain
Looking in my own eyes, hello
I can find the love I want
Someone better slap me
Before I start to rust
Before I start to decompose
Looking in my rear view mirror
Looking in my rear view mirror
I can make it disappear
I can make it disappear, have no fear
[chorus]
That motherfucker's always spiked with pain
Sitting in my kitchen, hey girl
I'm turning into dust again
My melancholy baby
The star of mazzy must
Push her voice inside of me
I'm overcoming gravity
I'm overcoming gravity
It's easy when you're sad to be
It's easy when you're sad, sad like me
[chorus]
Just one note
Could make me float
Could make me float away
One note from
The song she wrote
Could fuck me where I lay
Just one note
Could make me choke
One note that's
Not a lie
Just one note
Could cut my throat
One note could make me die
[chorus]
Aeroplane! [4x]
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