Flight of the Phoenix redux

Yep....you are correct. I had remembered that Indy was "alone" in the scene, but apparently he was with Short Round. So, being that it was "Temple of Doom", it *does* fit OldTimer's criterion as a "B Movie" (and that is being kind...lol). I remember the Akroyd character saying he was "Weber"; and thinking it was a poor accent, though German. Is not "Weber" a German name (meaning "weaver")?

I don't recall his name,only that he had a terrible accent.And that the movie sucked,it doesn't even feel like it belongs with the other Indy movies.

And you only left the canopy open once during cartridge start.........

Pearl Harbor was a sub-D movie....for below dog........

As is Stephen King in most movies based on his books and Steven Speilberg in Blues Bothers (the Cook County tax guy at the end.

In A Model 57's you did leave the hatch open especially in the Summer. In B models it didn't really make a lot of difference, the smoke smell infiltrated the cockpit and you could still smell it even with your O2 mask on tight and

Part of the briefing to the transient maintenance guys during cross countries was to warn them to stay on the opposite side of the nose during a start (starter turbine malfunction possibility) and most importantly all that smoke DID NOT mean FIRE. Early on in the B-57 service life more than one young airman tried to put out the fire from the starting engine.

Always have been trying to figure out how to do a diorama of a cartridge start. Anybody got any ideas on simulating billowing black smoke. Angel hair and or pulled cotton died black just doesn't cut it.

Rick

Great review, thanks. I figured it would be a stinker due to all the hype - the more pre-release marketing hype (such as on the Discovery Channel) the more likely it will suck.

John Hairell ( snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.com)

I've been experimenting with that myself, as I'm trying to figure out how to make smoke for a Civil War era locomotive. One thing that I've been working with is the pulled cottom (dyed light gray, in my case) and then sprayed with flat clear lacquer and "dusted" with ash (from my wood stove). I have several pieces that I've done with different amounts of ash and different tones of gray to find the right (for ME) levels. It took me a while to figure that I should put a thin wire in this concoction BEFORE I started, to give the piece support. Another thin, try getting a bunch of color photos of the smoke cloud to try and match the color that you're looking for. I had a hard time with that; because of the photo exposure time on the old cameras, there weren't many pictures of trains in motion.

-- John The history of things that didn't happen has never been written. . - - - Henry Kissinger

And the crews had a good laugh on at least one civilian tech rep who dove for cover the first time he saw two B-57s start up on the ramp at a certain VN base.

Tom

Funny...

Yahoo lists the film as number eight, for w/e 12/19. However, when you click on the title, to go to the reviews....look at where you go!:

:O)