Aircraft music?

[Spiny Norman]

Carly Simon's You're So Vain mentions taking a Learjet to Nova Scotia.

[DocStirling]

Redshift - from the album Ether: the track "Bombers in the Dessert" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTJcfEDywVA with an appropriate aviation video. I think the track is inspired by cold war bombers in the Boneyard.

Edgar Froese "Macula Transfer" - all the tracks were composed on flights and titled with the number of flight he was on.

daniel

[westie38]

The Lightning Tree - Follyfoot TV theme by the Settlers. Yep, I am ancient!

[FlyingMachinesTV]

The Lightning Tree - Follyfoot TV theme by the Settlers. Yep, I am ancient!

Me too - I can remember the song!

[81TFW]

Anything by Camel

Rock You Like A Hurricane - Scorpions

This Flight Tonight - Nazareth (not a specific aircraft but...)

Forge of Vulcan - Hawkwind

Countdown - Rush (space shuttle)

Aces High - Iron Maiden (about the Battle of Britain)

[gamecock]

'Shot Down in the Night' - Hawkwind. Epic!

[81TFW]

Winkie - Big Big Train (homing pigeon awarded Dickin Medal for rescue of a Beaufort crew in 1942)

[MiG_Eater]

Countdown - Rush (space shuttle)

One of the greatest songs of all time.

[blackcat]

"Coming Home" From Iron maiden is also a good one,.

[davski]

Mustang Sally?

[Stagger2]

Maybe add 'Ride of the Valkyries' by Richard Wagner. Not at all sure the XB-70A was around in those days?

[Lightningkid70]

Redshift - from the album Ether: the track "Bombers in the Dessert" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTJcfEDywVA with an appropriate aviation video. I think the track is inspired by cold war bombers in the Boneyard.

Edgar Froese "Macula Transfer" - all the tracks were composed on flights and titled with the number of flight he was on.

daniel

Well I never knew that about those Froese tracks.

[Lightningkid70]

Tigermoth - Steve Hackett

Oh yes, superb track!

[Lightningkid70]

No one's mentioned,
Five Miles Out by Mike Oldfield
I read somewhere that it was originally about Amelia Earhart's fateful journey in her Lockheed Electra hence the artwork to the record sleeve. But an alternative story appears on Wikipedia that he had a near fatal airplane flight.

Other suggestions;
Gary Numan - Airlane
Gary Numan - Bombers
OMD - Enola Gay

[AndyXH558]

Pink floyd astronomy domine.. OK that is a bit tenuous

[vulcanshammer]

Seriously, we're well down page 3 of this and nobody has mentioned 'The Far East Project - Like A G6'?

[Lightningkid70]

Just remembered...
Thomas Dolby - Flying North

Metal bird dip wing of fire
Whose airlanes comb dark Earth
The poles are tethers we were born in
On the brink of a whole new deal
On the floor of a hotel bar
I'm staring right into the light
And I'm drawn in like a moth
And I'm flying North again...
Here come the men in suits
Papers waving in the runway glare
Lincoln steaming in the chilly air of the morning
At the end of a double day
At the back of an airport lounge
I'm staring down into the cold
And I'm worn out like a cloth
And I'm flying North again tonight.
Down with the landing gear
Up goes the useless prayer
The poles are tethers we were born in
Now I'm back in the London night
On a bench in a launderette
I'm staring right into my face
And I'm drawn out like a plot
And I'm flying North again tonight.

[Zoom]

I am the Walrus

not specifically mentioning a plane but

Je suis un rock star by Bill Wyman (BEA)
Jets at Dawn by Be Bop Deluxe
OOBE by the Orb (93 live) features a jet taking off

I always associated the Schneider of V2 with the trophy not Florian

[radiorob]

Johnny Come Lately by Steve Earle mentions the Thunderbolt:

'My P-47 is a pretty good ship
And she took a round comin' cross the channel last trip
I was thinkin' 'bout my baby and letting her rip
Always got me through so far'

[Vickers Warwick]

On the Big Big train theme,"Brave Captain" is about WWI ace Albert Ball.

[crokketofcambs]

Thunderbolt-Bjork, Aeroplane-Bjork, Aeroflot-Sparks, Pilots-Goldfrapp.

[Ian G]

not specifically mentioning a plane but

Je suis un rock star by Bill Wyman (BEA)

It actually mentions Concorde.

ELO - "Calling America" mentions a 747

Does Airport by The Motors count?

[CMS]

Al Stewart - The Immelman Turn (Curtis Jenny)

Al Stewart - Flying Sorcery (Kitty Hawk, Tiger Moth)

You have impeccable music taste, and I'll add Zero She Flies by Al

[borismorris]

From The Cult
Off the Electric album

The 2nd track Peace Dog has in its chorus
“B 5 2 baby way up in the sky
Drop your love on me tonight.

In the demo version the 52 was pronounced as fifty-two. But by the time the album came out it had been skimmed to ‘five two’ to trip off the tongue a little easier.

[Pat Murphy]

Concorde- Gregory Porter....what a voice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvIb__axcDI