{"id":92487,"date":"2024-07-23T10:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T00:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/wings-ultimate-wwi-aerial-combat-film-all-time\/"},"modified":"2024-07-23T10:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T00:00:12","slug":"1927-oscar-winner-wings-the-ultimate-wwi-aerial-combat-film-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=92487","title":{"rendered":"1927 Oscar Winner &#8220;Wings&#8221;: The Ultimate WWI Aerial Combat Film Of All Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    When one thinks of aviation combat movies, chances are the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/top_gun_maverick\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" >&#8220;<em>Top Gun<\/em>&#8221; franchise<\/a> is probably the first thing to come to mind. If you&#8217;re old enough to remember the 1980s, maybe you remember the &#8220;<em>Iron Eagle<\/em>&#8221; series. In the 1960s you had classics like &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0064072\/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_1_tt_7_nm_1_in_0_q_the%2520battle%2520of%2520britain\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" ><em>The Battle of Britain<\/em><\/a>&#8221; (starring Michael Caine, Robert Shaw, Laurence Oliver, and Curt Jurgens) and &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0060177\/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_in_0_q_The%2520Blue%2520Max\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" ><em>The Blue Max<\/em><\/a>&#8221; (starring a young George Peppard in his pre-&#8220;<em>A-Team<\/em>&#8221; days, along with James Mason and the fantabulous Ursula Andress).    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not only did &#8220;Wings&#8221; (1927) win the very first Academy Award for Best Picture, it was also a damn good depiction of WWI aerial combat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,9632,1341,4181,412,2896],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-aircraft-movies","category-biplane","category-film","category-military","category-world-war-i"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92488,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92487\/revisions\/92488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}