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brad kaste
August 1st, 2013, 14:42
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
Naismith
August 1st, 2013, 16:06
que sera sera
EasyEd
August 1st, 2013, 16:59
Hey All,

Yes Doris had the right stuff... Most people of that generation did.

Why can't anyone make movies like that anymore?

-Ed-
TARPSBird
August 1st, 2013, 18:35
Any of you SOH baby-boomers recognize Jack Kelly (Bart Maverick) as the co-pilot?
Skyhawk_310R
August 2nd, 2013, 18:24
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
SSI01
August 2nd, 2013, 19:58
Any of you SOH baby-boomers recognize Jack Kelly (Bart Maverick) as the co-pilot?

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.
pfflyers
August 3rd, 2013, 07:39
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.
Dain Arns
August 3rd, 2013, 09:55
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...

... 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.

Barney Phillips.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney_Phillips
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0680237/?ref_=tt_cl_t7

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