High Flight is a 1957 CinemaScope British Cold War film, directed by John Gilling and starring Ray Milland, Bernard Lee and Leslie Phillips.

Amongst the group is Tony Winchester who makes a memorable entrance by landing his civilian Taylorcraft Auster aircraft with his girlfriend aboard on the RAF runway just ahead of a de Havilland Vampire jet trainer piloted by Wing Commander Rudge.

Endicott's flying radio-controlled model develops difficulties and crashes into the middle of a Bishop's tea party.

The wounded airman and his stricken aircraft are rescued by Rudge, who brings him back safely to a crash landing at his home base.

As appearing in screen credits (main roles identified):[6] Irving Allen and Albert Broccoli commissioned Jack Davies to write a screenplay about the present day Royal Air Force.

The squadron was in the process of, or had been recently selected as the Royal Air Force Fighter Command Aerobatics Display Team, which became known as the Black Arrows.

[10] When inclement weather interrupted filming at their home base, the production moved to RAF Leuchars in Fife.

During the 1930s and into the 1940s, the Welsh-born actor had moved to Hollywood and during the Second World War, had served as a civilian instructor for the United States Army Air Forces.

Neither is the playing especially convincing: Ray Milland gives a tired and curiously strained performance, while Kenneth Haigh is made to repeat the more tiresome characteristics of his stage Jimmy Porter.

[11] Leonard Maltin wrote: " (a) stale British drama of recruits in training for the RAF ... Last reel, in the air, (was the) only exciting part.