Travolta - did he ever ditch an aircraft?

"Rick Durden" wrote in message
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Paul,

Please tell us how you would handle a complete electrical failure, at
night, in IMC when your flight instruments are not vacuum powered, but
are electrically driven.

It's funny, but very accomplished people, such as actors, sometimes
become very accomplished pilots as well. Ability in one area is not
necessarily mutually exculsive with the other. Danny Kaye, for one,
who set an around the world speed record in a Learjet.

Danny might have, but aren't you thinking of Arnold Palmer?
http://www.executiveflyer.com/EFMaga...almer_Ed_M.htm

Also...this is interesting:

http://www.aerofiles.com/00stars.html

"Ted Huffmire" wrote in message
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Will it make you feel better about yourself
and your piloting skills to
know that somebody *else* made a mistake?

It seems that some pilots have a perverse feeling of
satisfaction when they find out another pilot's
operational misfortunes. Why is it necessary to
dig it in?


And most are awed when other pilots pull of miraculous recoveries.

When they DON'T like is someone BSing their mistake as something heroic.

How about a list of famous pilots....not pilots for majors or authors
but famous people who happen to be pilots.

We already have Harrison Ford and John Travolta.

My entry is guitarist Steve Morse who has played with everyone
from the Dixie Dregs to Manuel Barrueco (classical guitarist) to
Deep Purple and everyone in between. He's an ATP, private glider
and has an A&P certificate. when the Dixie Dregs got out of
their recording contract and they called it quits, he started
flying Twin Otters (???) commercially. And right out of college,
he was wrote off the cost of (I think) a C310 to fly the band around.
Apparently they couldn't afford the taxi's from teh airport to the gigs
but they/he had a plane. Now after winning best guitarist for 5 years
straight in Guitar Player magazine and touring the world too many times
to count, he has I think 4 airplanes. He also wrote a song for
one of the displays at the 100th anniversary of the Wright Brothers in
Kitty Hawk.

I took my PPL checkride on 12/17/03 (that's 2003, not 1903 ). For
"historical purposes," I took along one of his CD's along (also my
bike pedals since the Wrights were first bike mechanics). It's ok,
call it corny.

ok, what other famous GA pilots are there?

Gerald

Gerald Sylvester wrote:

ok, what other famous GA pilots are there?


Try this list as a start:

http://www.aerofiles.com/00stars.html

Jimmy Stewart flew bombers in Vietnam?? I knew he flew in WWII, but Vietnam?
Come on....

Also...this is interesting:

http://www.aerofiles.com/00stars.html

Tom,

Arnold Palmer did a circumnavigation in a Lear. Danny Kaye did it as
well, however, now that you mention it, his trip may not have been in
a Lear.

All the best,
Rick

"Tom Sixkiller" wrote in message ...
"Rick Durden" wrote in message
m...
Paul,

Please tell us how you would handle a complete electrical failure, at
night, in IMC when your flight instruments are not vacuum powered, but
are electrically driven.

It's funny, but very accomplished people, such as actors, sometimes
become very accomplished pilots as well. Ability in one area is not
necessarily mutually exculsive with the other. Danny Kaye, for one,
who set an around the world speed record in a Learjet.

Danny might have, but aren't you thinking of Arnold Palmer?
http://www.executiveflyer.com/EFMaga...almer_Ed_M.htm

Also...this is interesting:

http://www.aerofiles.com/00stars.html

"Chris Hoffmann" wrote in message
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Jimmy Stewart flew bombers in Vietnam?? I knew he flew in
WWII, but Vietnam? Come on....


Stewart remained in the Air Force Reserve after WWII, he retired as a
Brigadier. During his last active stint he requested and flew one Arc Light
mission.

"Rick Durden" wrote in message
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Tom,

Arnold Palmer did a circumnavigation in a Lear. Danny Kaye did it as
well, however, now that you mention it, his trip may not have been in
a Lear.


Yes, and as the article stated, it was Palmer's flight that set a world
record at the time.

I know Danny Kaye flew on rides with the Air Force, and had a piston twin of
his own, but I can't find anything that he ever flew a Lear.

One person missing from the list (below) was Fess Parker, who flew his twin
commuting to the film lot while doing the old "Davy Crocket" TV show.



All the best,
Rick

"Tom Sixkiller" wrote in message
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"Rick Durden" wrote in message
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Paul,

It's funny, but very accomplished people, such as actors, sometimes
become very accomplished pilots as well. Ability in one area is not
necessarily mutually exculsive with the other. Danny Kaye, for one,
who set an around the world speed record in a Learjet.

Danny might have, but aren't you thinking of Arnold Palmer?

http://www.executiveflyer.com/EFMaga...almer_Ed_M.htm

Also...this is interesting:

http://www.aerofiles.com/00stars.html

"Tom Sixkiller" wrote in message ...
Also...this is interesting:

http://www.aerofiles.com/00stars.html

Thanks. Nice list of pilot actors. On a humorous note, in one second
season episode of Star Trek, you can clearly see Spock use an aluminum
E6B to compute how long it'll take before the Enterprise spirals out
of orbit.

Apparently both Shatner and Nimoy were taking flying lessons at the
time, so it was an inside joke.

Kev

Kevin Darling wrote:

Thanks. Nice list of pilot actors. On a humorous note, in one second
season episode of Star Trek, you can clearly see Spock use an aluminum
E6B to compute how long it'll take before the Enterprise spirals out
of orbit.

Was that regular aluminum or transparent aluminum???