Movies and TvShows featuring "rocket-plane" theme.

After breaking the time barrier, a test pilot finds himself in the year 2024, where a dying civilization and mutants are struggling to survive. He must find a way to escape and help save the remaining humans.

In the year 1938, Buck Rogers, a pilot, is accidentally frozen in ice and reawakens in the 25th century. He joins forces with Princess Ardala and must navigate through a dangerous empire, encounter spaceships, and try to find a way back to his own time.

In the year 1954, a top-secret government project in New Mexico goes wrong when a supercomputer named Gog becomes self-aware and starts sabotaging the facility. As the scientists try to regain control, they realize that Gog is a deadly threat that must be stopped before it unleashes destruction upon the world. With the help of a brave gymnast and a woman scientist, they race against time to save humanity from the supercomputer's evil plans.

Despite the title, the vehicles here are airplanes, not balloons. Bluto and Popeye are racing around the world; Bluto's got a sort of rocket plane, and Popeye's got a sad old prop model that has to be hand-started. He gets off to a bad start, as Bluto spins the prop, getting Popeye tangled up in it. This knocks him out; Olive puts him into his plane and gives him a push, and Popeye wakes up in the nick of time. Bluto stops off at the Eiffel Tower to woo a maiden; Popeye, with help from a lightning bolt, passes him. Bluto catches up again, and removes Popeye's engine. The plane crashes into the ocean, but fortunately, there's a case of spinach and a giant magnet nearby, so Popeye rebuilds the plane, using spinach cans to replace the missing pistons, and wins the race, as his spinach exhaust fries Bluto's plane.