brad kaste
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Flying an airplane is easy. Take a look at Doris Day landing this Douglas DC-4,...and on the same runway they had used. No doubt about it,...Doris had the right stuff.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KlMZ_HeLgs
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Doris Day does what the Asian Pilots couldn't
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Flying an airplane is easy. Take a look at Doris Day landing this Douglas DC-4,...and on the same runway they had used. No doubt about it,...Doris had the right stuff.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KlMZ_HeLgs
Skyhawk_310R
Charter Member
Was that a movie or a documentary presented on how 1950's era precision airborne radar approaches are flown? What an outstandingly well researched and presented movie clip! I seriously doubt with the current Hollywood belief in hyper-drama that a movie could be produced in such an understated and yet thoroughly honest and accurate manner.
Ken
Ken
Who was the guy who reached up and pulled the throttles back to the stops after they got on the ground? I recognize him as a character actor in a lot of '50s and '60s films, but can't think of his name.
Our property manager in HI retired from an entire Air Force career spent as a pilot in ATC/MATS/MAC. Out of all the aircraft he flew - from the BT-13 to the C-141 - he loved that C-54 more than any of them. Handled "like a big Cadillac," he used to say.
The scene is from a Doris Day flick called "Julie" from the mid-fifties. It's interesting that they'd go into such detail describing the Precision Approach Radar system. Maybe the producer was ex-Air Force or something.
I don't know the "doctor's" name, but I remember him best from a role on The Twilight Zone where he played a three eyed alien that ran a diner.
I don't know the "doctor's" name, but I remember him best from a role on The Twilight Zone where he played a three eyed alien that ran a diner.