Airport and Airport 1975

On 19 Apr 2007 13:02:20 -0700, Dave J wrote:

I'll also say this about the generation gap. I clearly missed the days
when people dressed up to fly

I'm old enough to remember the first time I saw a guy wearing a T-shirt get
on an airplane with me.

I blame Southwest Airlines for making air travel available to the
proletariats.

:-)
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Dallas

Dave J writes:

I'll also say this about the generation gap. I clearly missed the days
when people dressed up to fly, or when flight attendants flirted with
anybody.

I don't know that there was ever a time when flight attendants routinely
flirted with anyone, unless their employer requested it (not inconceivable in
the old days).

People dressed up because air travel was too expensive to be undertaken
routinely, and so any trip on an airplane was a special occasion. However,
during the same era, people dressed up a lot more for all sorts of occasions.
As little as forty years ago, many American women still felt a need to wear
gloves when going out.

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Dave J wrote:

The original Airport (I think) does a relatively good job of showing
what it might be like to run a busy airport and mange the needs of the
airlines, passengers, surrounding city, etc.

Of course, that movie was based on Arthur Hailey's excellent book of
the same name. The culled out a lot of the details (they totally
removed the ATC plot line, for example) but it still was a pretty
good treatment. Loved the GCA approach.

The sequels were all junk.

Ah! Maybe I'll read the book sometime. I have a feeling it'll have
more realistic detail fir aviation junkies!

Dave J

On Apr 19, 12:49 pm, Ron Natalie wrote:
Of course, that movie was based on Arthur Hailey's excellent book of
the same name. The culled out a lot of the details (they totally
removed the ATC plot line, for example) but it still was a pretty
good treatment. Loved the GCA approach.

Dave J writes:

Ah! Maybe I'll read the book sometime. I have a feeling it'll have
more realistic detail fir aviation junkies!

It's out of print, unfortunately. I've been looking around for it for a
while. I actually read it while on a domestic leg of an overseas flight on
TWA--in first class, come to think of it. Today you'd probably be arrested
for reading it on a plane.

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Mxsmanic wrote in
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Dave J writes:

Ah! Maybe I'll read the book sometime. I have a feeling it'll have
more realistic detail fir aviation junkies!

It's out of print, unfortunately. I've been looking around for it for
a while.

To bump up your already vast knowledge, no doubt.


I suspect most of what you know is form these crappy movies....



Bertie

On Apr 19, 11:15 am, Dave J wrote:
Okay, in a fit of aviation desperation, I decided to watch these two
films back to back as a way to get my regular fix without running the
Hobbs.

The movies are interesting. They're this strange mix of preposterous
and kinda 1/2 decent from an aviation persepective, especially the
first one. They definitely have all the seeds necessary for the follow-
on funny-on-purpose Airplane films.

The original Airport (I think) does a relatively good job of showing
what it might be like to run a busy airport and mange the needs of the
airlines, passengers, surrounding city, etc.

The second movie, where a Baron hits the cockpit of a 747 and the
first officer is sucked out, well, that was just ridiculous. Even the
special effects looked like they pulled a rag doll out the window.
They clearly weren't even trying with the details. It only got worse
when they used a helicopter to lower in a new pilot through the hole.

I'll say this, though, my odd preoccupation throughout Airport 1975
was for that poor Baron pilot and his wife. I kept thinking, they're
gonna blame that guy for everything: pilot error, loss of control in
IMC, etc -- when really his only piloting mistake was expiring at the
controls. Who's to blame for that, his AME? He actually had shown good
judgment earlier in the film by landing to let a line pass.

Anyway, it all fits in well with the four directives of flying:
aviate, navigate, communicate, blame the dead guy

Thank you for indulging me in this pointless post!

-- dave j

OK, so now you have no choice but to watch "Airplane", which is the
spoof of all the "Airport" movies. It is a much better movie, and a
riot! I especially loved the "Otto" pilot with the strategically
located inflation tube for the Flight Attendent to blow into!

Say, does anyone speak jive?

wrote:


OK, so now you have no choice but to watch "Airplane", which is the
spoof of all the "Airport" movies. It is a much better movie, and a
riot! I especially loved the "Otto" pilot with the strategically
located inflation tube for the Flight Attendent to blow into!

Oddly, Airplane's plot comes from the movie Zero Hour which itself made
from another Arthur Hailey book, Runway 08.


Say, does anyone speak jive?



Cold, got to be!

PAR minimums were lower than an ILS back in the good old days!

Ron Natalie wrote:
wrote:

Say, does anyone speak jive?


Cold, got to be!

Golly!


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