Airplane! to have never seen nor to have any desire to see "Airplane II". Airplane! Airplane! (alternatively titled Flying High!) is a 1980 American satirical disaster film written and directed by David and Jerry Zucker and Jim Abrahams, and produced by Jon Davison. 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" and
Miyazaki Airplane Miyazaki Airplane Miyazaki Airplane was an aircraft parts manufacturing company based in Japan during World War II. The company owned a factory located in Kanuma, Tochigi, Japan, that manufactured parts, including rudders, for the Mitsubishi A6M Zero. During the war, the firm relocated to Utsunomiya, Tochigi, Japan. Shortly thereafter on July 12, 1945, there was an air raid on the city of Utsunomiya which left 43.7% of the city destroyed. The company was run by Katsuji Miyazaki (Abt. 1915 – 18 March 1993), the father of the Studio Ghibli animation studio co-founder Hayao Miyazaki. During World War II production runs