Take Flight With These 30 Aviation Movies, From Thrillers to Rom-Coms

Ted Striker is a former Air Force fighter pilot with a severe of fear of flying who is still hung up on his old war crush, flight attendant Elaine Dickinson. If he could conquer one of these two things, he'd consider his life a success, so he books a seat on Elaine's flight from Los Angeles to Chicago. He's got almost four hours to win her back, but instead he finds himself back in the cockpit after the pilot comes down with a threatening food-borne illness. Ted is now in a kill-two-birds-with-one-stone scenario.