T.V. Alert!

[Typhoon1244]

Two of the greatest aviation films of all time are on AMC tonight, so tune in!

The first features a cross-eyed flight attendant who saves the day after Erik Estrada is killed by a runaway Beech Baron!

The second is about a fully pressurized 747, with no operating engines, that sinks to the bottom of the Caribbean!

Enjoy!


(I have to admit, the air-to-air photography in Airport '75 is sensational...)

 

[T-Gates]

Crap, I dont get AMC! I love those cheezy old Airport movies!

Nothing beats Charleton Heston entering a 747 through a hole right over the F/O seat.

And in the one where the plane is at the bottom of the sea, don't they see some crazy tower somewhere out in the Bermuda Triangle and try to avoid it?

--03M

 

[laker inbound]

I love those cheezy old Airport movies!

Too bad they're not playing the original Airport flick tonight. Dean Martin as Captain Vernon Demerest (check out my avatar). The quotation I use as my signature is also from the film. When Martin takes a stroll through the cabin to check out the suspected hijacker, he's confronted by a whiz-kid who asks him why the plane has turned back toward Chicago (he says he can tell by looking at the stars in the sky). Dino then responds...

...to which the kid can only answer, "Oh, of course."

 

[Typhoon1244]

And in the one where the plane is at the bottom of the sea, don't they see some crazy tower somewhere out in the Bermuda Triangle and try to avoid it?

It was an oil rig. (In the "Bermuda Triangle?") They hit it with the right wingtip...which somehow blocked the flow of oil to the #4 engine, which promptly caught fire...twice. And the guy flying apparently reacted by stalling the airplane several times and dunking it into the water.

Then it sank.

With the cabin full of air.

And somehow none of the "plug" doors allowed the airplane to flood.

Hollywood at it's best!

 

[T-Gates]

For some reason I remembered some Bermuda Triangle reference. I can't remember. The Concorde movie (Airport '79?)
is my favorite. Nothing beats the F/O opening the window and firing a flare to decieve a heat-seeking missile at Mach 2.

--03M

 

[ATR-DRIVR]

Typhoon,
Most of the air-to-air was filmed around Salt Lake and east of Prove Ut. SLC was the airport of landing after all the inflight fun! We watched them make several approaches, the 747 doing the ILS34. Clay Lacy's Lear was the camera ship. The air-to-air with the -53 was east of Salt Lake in the Uinta Mtns.
Great stuff!!!

 

[Typhoon1244]

Clay Lacy's Lear was the camera ship.

Really? I assumed it was a B-25 or something...since the 747 spent the whole movie 10-degrees nose-up at an approach flap setting. You'd think a Lear would have been able to keep up at a more realistic speed.

Maybe there was another reason...

Thanks for the info, though. Very interesting. I had no idea Utah had such scenic flying.