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June 18th, 2004, 16:09
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| Old Skool  Join Date: May 2002 Location: South Carolina
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|  Airport 1975 Watching this on AMC. Talk about sexual harassment city. The good old days...  |
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June 18th, 2004, 16:28
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| Re: Airport 1975 Oh, I loooove that movie!! Flight Engineer all over that "Stewardess"... |
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June 18th, 2004, 16:29
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| Re: Airport 1975 I've never seen it. Now I see all of the thing they make fun of in Airplane. |
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June 18th, 2004, 16:41
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| Re: Airport 1975 Oh, really? Never seen it? After watching that movie, Airplane takes on a whole new meaning!!!! I remember watching all of the Airport movies when I was little... Airport 1975 , Airport '77 , and the worst one, The Concorde : Airport '79 !!!! |
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June 18th, 2004, 16:55
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| Re: Airport 1975 The scene when they hit the baron is pretty comical. HAHA Al Murdock instead of Buck Murdock. I love this! Speaking of old movies, MikeD's favorite "Dr. Strangelove" is playing at a theater in town. I am thinking of going to watch it. Assuming of course some commie hasn't stolen my precious bodily fluids. |
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June 18th, 2004, 17:45
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| Re: Airport 1975 [ QUOTE ] The scene when they hit the baron is pretty comical. HAHA Al Murdock instead of Buck Murdock. I love this! Speaking of old movies, MikeD's favorite "Dr. Strangelove" is playing at a theater in town. I am thinking of going to watch it. Assuming of course some commie hasn't stolen my precious bodily fluids. [/ QUOTE ] Just watch out for the fluoridation! |
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June 18th, 2004, 17:59
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| Re: Airport 1975 Phew! What a nail biter. They made it though. I was hoping someone would say "Looks like I picked the wrong day to quit sniffing glue!" |
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June 18th, 2004, 18:28
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| Re: Airport 1975 Old movies like this used real stuntwork with no computer generated stuff. They actually dangled a stuntman from a helicopter in front of a 747, in flight, to get the exterior shot. As I remember he got pretty close to the 747, almost touching. Of course they didn't do the actual transfer. Another good one from a stunt perspective was Cliffhanger where they connect a Jetstar to a DC-9 and do an inflight transfer. All real stunts. |
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June 18th, 2004, 19:45
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| Re: Airport 1975 That was real??? Holy Smoke! |
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June 18th, 2004, 20:32
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| Re: Airport 1975 So I wasn't supposed to be laughing the whole time?  |
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June 18th, 2004, 22:07
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 | Re: Airport 1975 For those of you who like the old airport movies, there's an "Airport Terminal Pack" out on DVD for $20. It's all of them in one set.  |
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June 19th, 2004, 02:33
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| Re: Airport 1975 Nice... I'm watching the 2am showing right now (I have no life). The nun is playing the guitar right now  Every time I've seen this move I've missed the first half hour or so, I never even knew that Erik Estrada was the flight engineer. Estrada is the ultmiate mack daddy, he's gotta ad about 2 stars to any movie he's in . Best actor of all time... The only one I haven't seen is the concorde one, is it ever on TV? Thats gotta be a classic... |
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June 19th, 2004, 02:35
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| Re: Airport 1975 Erik Estrada as the FE with the sexual innundos galore is funny! [ QUOTE ] Old movies like this used real stuntwork with no computer generated stuff. They actually dangled a stuntman from a helicopter in front of a 747, in flight, to get the exterior shot. As I remember he got pretty close to the 747, almost touching. Of course they didn't do the actual transfer. Another good one from a stunt perspective was Cliffhanger where they connect a Jetstar to a DC-9 and do an inflight transfer. All real stunts. [/ QUOTE ] Which is very interesting, since real stunts are seemingly a thing of the past in this day and age of digital editing, etc. Also, the shots of the 747 cruising through the mountains was real too. Some other Airport 75 trivia (courtesy IMDB): *Charlton Heston spent time on the American Airlines 747 simulator in Fort Worth, Texas, in preparation for the role. *Dana Andrews played the pilot of the small plane that crashed into the 747, piloted by Efrem Zimbalist Jr. in Crowded Sky, The (1961), Andrews is the pilot of a commercial airplane which collides with a smaller one piloted by Zimbalist. *The Boeing 747 used in the film was originally delivered to American Airlines in 1971. It was a 747-123, registration number N9675, serial number 20390; the 136th 747 off the production line. Its basic American Airlines color scheme was modified to the notional Columbia Airlines colors for filming of exterior sequences. The aircraft now (2000) flies for UPS as a freighter, re-registered N675UP. *The 747 used in the film cost $30,000 per day to hire. *The small plane which (in the movie) collides with the 747, a Beechcraft Baron, tail number N9750Y, was destroyed in a midair collision with a Cessna 180 over Tracy, California, on Aug 24, 1989 .......And the coolest trivia for the movie: *I got to fly the "Hollywood Tweet", T-37B s/n 67-14762, during my USAF career. '762' served for many years with the 82nd Flying Training Wing/96th Flying Training Squadron at the former Williams AFB (now Williams Gateway Airport) Arizona. In 1974, '762' participated in the filming of the movie "Airport 1975". In the movie, '762' is the USAF "chase plane" that initially intercepts the striken 747 airliner to assess the damage following a mid-air collision with a Beech Baron. Following the closure of Williams AFB in September 1993, '762' was transferred to the 47th Flying Training Wing/85th Flying Training Squadron at Laughlin AFB, Texas. Yours truly has a number of hours logged in 67-14762, and I know I will miss this old bird when it soon gets sent to out to pasture. Hope someone saves the little faded instrument panel plaque in 762 that commemorates her "15 minutes of fame" in the movie..... |
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June 19th, 2004, 08:51
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| Re: Airport 1975 Anyone notice that the callsign the guy flying the Baron uses isn't even the same as the tail number on the plane? |
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June 19th, 2004, 11:33
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| Re: Airport 1975 I did notice the tail-number issue. That's some cool trivia, Mike D. People make fun of old movies and call them "fake" and "unrealistic", but the days of the stunt person are dying!!! |
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June 19th, 2004, 13:03
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| Re: Airport 1975 [ QUOTE ] That's some cool trivia, Mike D. People make fun of old movies and call them "fake" and "unrealistic", but the days of the stunt person are dying!!! [/ QUOTE ] What he said. I've already ranted about that a couple of times on this site. Wherever "Airport '75" is mentioned, I am there! I have an irrational love of that movie, mostly stemming from childhood nostalgia, it being the airplane movie that first gave me my fascination with jetliners. But also because of what you mentioned right there. It actually looks better than if it had been made today. Renting a real 747 would have been considered too much of a hassle- witness "Airforce One" or almost any movie that has planes in it nowadays. I love that shot of the 747 gliding majestically by the camera set up in the mountains. I'm getting way too worked up about this, better go watch it. |
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June 19th, 2004, 22:02
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| Re: Airport 1975 I picked up on some of the problems the movie had, but it was a good movie. Ponch was funny as hell harrassing the stews. |
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