I'm looking for a stomach rolling flight video that is like taking a
video tour of the Grand Canyon or something like that.  I want to show
it to a group of kids to make them feel like they are on the plane
ride of their lives!  I experienced a movie like that at Disney World
25 years ago.  All of the sources that I can find all are
documentaries or flip back and forth between commentaries and
different angled views of stunt aircraft doing tricks or flying
formations.  I need a purely adventurous flight without any breaks in
the film.  Any sources?

Dan (and Sublime1) --

I'm pretty certain that the film you're seeking is an IMAX movie
originally released in 1976 with the Smithsonian Institution's
National Air & Space Museum as one of the sponsors.  It's called "To
Fly" and I remember it for one of its early scenes, where the camera
takes you downriver -- then right over Niagara Falls.

When seeing the movie at an IMAX theater, I'm always careful to watch
the audience to see them leaning into turns made by the aircraft! 
(Note: you can pick out the pilots in the audience: they won't be
leaning into the turns because one of the things you learn early in
flight training is to orient yourself to the airplane, not the
ground.)

Of course even the best large-screen formats don't match the IMAX
experience, where all of your visual field is covered by the image and
sound is stereoscopic but here's where you can find it for purchase. 
And there are trailers from the movie here too:

BigMovieZone
"To Fly!"
http://www.bigmoviezone.com/filmsearch/movies/?uniq=72

This is the description from the producers' site:
http://www.macfreefilms.com/fly_set.html


"To Fly!" was one of the first movies made by Jim Freeman and Greg
MacGillvray in the IMAX format.  They followed it up with another
called
"The Magic of Flight" in 1996 that puts the viewer in the cockpit with
the Navy Blue Angels:
Cincinnati Post
"Omnimax Takes Flight" (Kopp, Nov. 12, 1998)
http://www.cincypost.com/living/1998/flight111298.html

You can see a trailer for that later movie here.  On my screen the
trailer appears as a thumbnail, but double-clicking it makes into a
full-screen image:
MacGillvray Freeman Films
http://www.macfreefilms.com/magic_set.html

Google search strategy:
Omnimax + movie + flying
Flying + movie + Smithsonian


Best regards,

Omnivorous-GA

Hi pastordan...

I saw the very same film to which you refer. It was recommended
to the audience that they stand. Stomach-rolling is right! People
were swaying back and forth as the plane banked, and many lost 
their balance as it dove and recovered. Quite an experience!

I don't know where you could find it now, but it's certainly 
worth looking for. Best of luck!