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 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.

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.

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.