The Secrets of Isis episode "Dreams of Flight" debuts 1975

The fifteenth episode of the first season of The Secrets of Isis, Dreams of Flight, aired December 13, 1975.  It features the story of a Hispanic girl, who designs model airplanes.  She wants to enter a contest at the school but the favorite to win and her brother both try to discourage her from trying.

It is a good lesson against arrogance, bigotry and racism.   

Joanna Cameron starred as Andrea Thomas and Isis.  Brian Cutler as Rick Mason and Joanna Pang as Cindy Lee were the rest of the regular cast.  Cynthia Avila appeared as Chela Montoya.

"Zero Hour!" released 1957

Zero Hour!, released November 13, 1957, was the inspiration for the movie Airplane!.  David Zucker and Jerry Zucker bought the rights to the film and parodied it in their 1980 classic. They used some of the lines from Zero Hour! directly into Airplane!.  

Zero Hour! starred Dana Andrews and Linda Darnell in a thriller where the flight crew is incapacitated by food poisoning.  A WWII pilot suffering from post traumatic stress disorder has to land the plane.

"Airplane!" released 1980

One of the funniest movies of all time and probably the best satirical film ever, Airplane! was released July 2, 1980.  Originally I thought it was a spoof of all the airplane disaster movies, but it is a scene-by-scene parody of the movie Zero Hour starring Dana Andrews.