Join us for movie night at the Aviation Heritage Center.  Bring your own lawn chair or use one of our folding chairs.  The hangar is climate controlled for your comfort.  We have a 36-foot wide screen for your enjoyment.  Freshly popped popcorn, candy and soda will be available for purchase.

Doors open at 6:30pm.  Pre-movie entertainment is provided by the local SHARKS (Sheboygan Area Radio Kontrol Society) and their expert indoor flying. The movie will begin at 7pm.

When an Amacor oil rig in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia proves unproductive, Captain Frank Towns (Quaid) and copilot”A.J.” (Gibson) are sent to shut the operation down. However, on their way to Beijing, a major dust storm rips apart one of their engines, forcing them to crash land their C-119 Flying Boxcar in an uncharted area of the desert. Their cargo consists of used parts and tools from the rig, the rig’s crew, and Elliot (Ribisi), a lone drifter. On the way down, the plane is damaged beyond repair, one crew member, Kyle, falls to his death out the aircraft’s damaged cargo hatch, and two others, Dr. Gerber (Ditchfield) and Newman (Hindy), die from trauma inflicted by turbulence and impact.

When the storm ends and the dust settles, it becomes apparent that they are 200 miles off course with only one month’s worth of water available. Davis (Padalecki) goes out and gets lost, dies and is not found by his crew. When the rest of the group realizes that he has disappeared, they are shaken up by it and morale drops. When more decide to try leaving, Towns stops them and declares “no-one else dies.” At first they decide, with the counsel of Captain Towns, to just sit and await rescue. However, after surveying the situation and realizing that their value to Amacor is less than they had originally believed, they reconsider and are pitched a radical idea by Elliot, who claims to be an aeronautical engineer: rebuild the remains of their C-119 into a new, functional aircraft. Towns initially refuses, which causes Liddle to wander off on his own out of protest. When the others attempt to go in search of him, Towns stops them and tries to make them stay put. Kelly then tosses his own words back at him, and he decides to find Liddle on his own. Taking only a small canteen of water, he sets off following the footsteps left in the sand. After a long while, with the desert taking its toll on him, he comes across a valley littered with fresh debris. This turns out to be cargo from the plane which had been dropped when the tail was cut open. Among the debris, he discovers the stripped body of Kyle, full of bullet wounds with shell casings clustered on the ground near him. At this point, Liddle appears to Towns and explains that someone had already been there and took the watch that Kyle won from him in a poker match.

They struggle for several weeks rebuilding the plane through dust storms, lack of water, and fighting amongst the group. They christen it “The Phoenix” after the legendary bird. Soon enough it is revealed that Elliot’s aircraft design experience has, to this point, been restricted to the design of model aeroplanes. The problems grow when a group of bandits camp nearby and when the survivors attempt to communicate, the bandits kill Rodney (Curran) and are killed in a short, fierce skirmish when ambushed by Towns. However, they eventually are able to construct the new aircraft and take off barely in time to escape a larger group of bandit attackers.