Flying in the Sky

Flying in the Sky

94 mins | War | July 27, 1958

During Korean War Chinese Air Force fought against the American pilots who claimed to be the world's king of the air. Zhang Lei (Cao Huichu), who comes from a poor farming family, is determined to kill the enemy and serve his country after graduating from aviation school. After arriving at the front line, both the division commander (played by Wang Runshen) and the team leader were satisfied with his test flight results, but the proud Zhang Lei did not want to be a wingman and thinks he is useless. His pride and conceit made him pay the price. With the help of leaders and comrades, he gradually got out of complacency. In the next air battle, he used his actions to correct his mistakes and actively helped the lead plane complete aerial tactical coordination and shoot down the enemy plane. After his own plane was injured and on fire, he was still able to cover his comrades and crash the injured plane into the enemy plane

Flying in the Sky

94 mins | War | July 27, 1958

Flying in the Sky
During Korean War Chinese Air Force fought against the American pilots who claimed to be the world's king of the air. Zhang Lei (Cao Huichu), who comes from a poor farming family, is determined to kill the enemy and serve his country after graduating from aviation school. After arriving at the front line, both the division commander (played by Wang Runshen) and the team leader were satisfied with his test flight results, but the proud Zhang Lei did not want to be a wingman and thinks he is useless. His pride and conceit made him pay the price. With the help of leaders and comrades, he gradually got out of complacency. In the next air battle, he used his actions to correct his mistakes and actively helped the lead plane complete aerial tactical coordination and shoot down the enemy plane. After his own plane was injured and on fire, he was still able to cover his comrades and crash the injured plane into the enemy plane
Producers August 1st Film Studio
Original title 長空比翼
Directors Bing Wang, Shutian Li
Writers Li Jing, Danxi Zhu

Cast

Cao Huiqu

as Zhou Zhang

Yao Chen

as Feng Liu

Wang Runshen

as Division commander Fang

Xu Hu

as Political commissar Li

Ren Wang

as Zhong Wang

Yang Guang

as Hua Yang

Fusheng Zhang

as Wen Zhang

Fuzhang Ma

as Xing Ma

Shutian Li

as Gui Zhou

Gao Baocheng

as Yong Zhao

Zhijian Li

as Fei Lin

Zhang Yuanfang

as Doctor Wang

Liu Bingzhang

as Driver

Yuan Xia

as Female station attendant

Qu Yun

as