We did this one a while back, but I thought it'd be fun to reprise now that we have a whole bunch of new players: manned flight. NITPICKY RULE: no UFOs, they had their own list already. But rockets are OK.

Who's Driving Your Plane?--Rolling Stones
Flight 505--Rolling Stones
Jet Airliner--Steve Miller
Leaving on a Jet Plane--John Denver/Peter, Paul & Mary
Planes--Jefferson Airplane (bonus points!)
Supersonic Rocket Ship--Kinks
Up, Up and Away (in my beautiful balloon)--5th Dimension

Eight Miles High -- The Byrds (well, he always claimed it was about airplane flying anyway...)

Also...

I'm Mandy, Fly Me -- 10cc
Helicopter - XTC

"Aeroplane Blues" by The Blue Aeroplanes
"I'm a Little Rocketship" by Cracker
"Airliner" by R.E.M.
"Superman" by R.E.M.
"Lucky" by Radiohead (ostensibly about a plane crash)
"D.O.A." by Bloodrock (ditto)
“Jets At Dawn” by Be Bop Deluxe
“Jet Silver and the Dolls” by Be Bop Deluxe
“Rocket Cathedrals” by Be Bop Deluxe

Flying On The Ground Is Wrong-Buffalo Springfield
Rocket Love-Stevie Wonder
Met Her On A Plane-Jimmy Webb, Ian Matthews
Flying-The Beatles
Rocket In My Pocket-NRBQ

Clockwork Creep - 10cc (it's a conversation between a jumbo jet and a terrorist time bomb.)

Silver Wings - Merle Haggard
Rocket Ride - Kiss
Aeroplane - Red Hot Chili Peppers

rocket to god - hall & oates

last plane out - toy matinee

band - B52"s

Silver Bird – Mark Lindsay
707 – Rosanne Cash
747 – Kent
Traveling Band – CCR (“737 coming out of the sky…”)
Jet – Macca
Helicopter – The Feeling
Leaving On a Jet Plane – Chantal Kreviazuk
Rocket – Def Leppard
Take Me to the Pilot – Elton John
Endless Flight – Leo Sayer
Night Flight – Justin Hayward
Flying – Bryan Adams
Flying Without Wings – Westlife
Flying Dreams – Kenny Loggins and Olivia Newton-John
Above the Clouds – Amber
Above the Clouds – ELO
Calling America – ELO (“Somebody...told her that there was a place like heaven/Across the water on a 747…”)

Here Come the Choppers - Loudon Wainwright III
Fear of Flying - Loudon Wainwright III
The Airplane Song - Royal Guardsmen
It's Sopwith Camel Time - Royal Guardsmen

Band - Sopwith Camel

Trains and Boats and Planes - Billy J Kramer & the Dakotas
Trains and Boats and Planes - Dionne Warwick
Sky High - Jigsaw

album:

Police in Helicopter - John Holt
Space Oddity - David Bowie
Jet Lady - Angela Triccoli
Nite Flites - Walker Brothers

artist:

Led Zeppelin
Hellacopters
Pilot

label:

Rocket

album:

Preflyte - The Byrds
Night Flight to Venus - Boney M

O Superman - Laurie Anderson

album:

Superman - Barbra Streisand

Snoopy vs. The Red Baron--Royal Guardsmen
The Return of the Red Baron--Royal Guardsmen
Snoopy's Christmas--Royal Guardsmen
Enola Gay--OMD
Airport--Motors
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (movie theme song). I'm still trying to figure out if I have this song in the Archives somewhere.

Ghetto Bird - Ice Cube (refers to a police helicopter)

Since my choices are already posted here, i'd like only to remark, for any who may not be aware, that 10cc's songs "Clockwork Creep" (from 2nd LP "Sheet Music") and "I'm Mandy, Fly Me" (from 4th LP "How Dare You?") are interconnected, Mandy being the sequel to Creep. Not technically a sequel since the time-line overlaps. "Clockwork Creep" is in the first person from the perspective of a bomb that's been planted on an airplane (and features conversation between the bomb and the plane). "I'm Mandy, Fly Me", opens with a chorus from "Clockwork Creep" playing under the synth'd sound of aircraft in flight, inferring that the flight which is the subject of this song in one in the same with the "Clockwork Creep" flight. It tells the story of a man on that flight, and the unusual way in which he is saved from the explosion (don't want to spoil the specifics in case anyone ends up checking these songs out firsthand).

Just think vintage 10cc at their musical and lyrical best, which is saying a lot. And thanks to the folks who thought to post these classics. And further, one of the chorus lines from "Clockwork Creep" is "Oh, no you'll never get me up in one of these again", pretty close to the thread title verbatim.

"I Was a Kamikaze Pilot" by Hoodoo Gurus
"Icarus (Borne on Wings of Steel)" by Kansas
"Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines" theme by Ron Goodwin (Drat! Jimbo already posted this one!)
"Airportman" by R.E.M.
"You're in the Air" by R.E.M.
"In The Air Tonight" by Phil Collins
"Levitate" by The Fall
"Blimps" by Be Bop Deluxe

"Fire and Rain" by James Taylor (Lyric: "... sweet dreams and flying machines in pieces on the ground...")
"I'll Fly Away" by Johnny Cash, Alison Krauss, many others
"Flying" by Crack the Sky
"(We're Not) The Jet Set" by George Jones
"Ohio Air Show Plane Crash" by Joe Henry


ARTIST: Paul McCartney & Wings
ARTIST: Jet

ALBUM: "Experimental Jet Set, Trash & No Star" by Sonic Youth
ALBUM: "Landing on Water" by Neil Young
ALBUM: "Get Your Wings" by Aerosmith

Flight of The Icarus - Iron Maiden
Aces High - Iron Maiden
Learning To Fly - Pink Floyd
Jet Boy - New York Dolls
Major Tom (The Countdown Song) - Peter Schilling

Treetop Flyer -- Stephen Stills, Jimmy Buffett
Las Vegas Turnaround -- Hall & Oates (about a stewardess)

Skywriter - Jackson 5

album:

The Amazing Kamikaze Syndrome - Slade
American Flyer - American Flyer
Skywriter - Jackson 5

artist:

Propellerheads
American Flyer

Watching Airplanes - Gary Allan

Band: 707