George Kennedy was awesome in this movie! I was already knee deep into airplanes at the ripe old age of 7 when this came out in 1970. My dad took me to see it and I remember I couldn’t sit still due to all the airplane scenes! Fast forward 50 years... and 267 Carrier landings, one major airline job and my current job as a Sr Corporate pilot flying all over the world and I still love this movie. Still have that boyish enthusiasm for all things aviation. And I use George K’s line when he compliments his jet with the “Nice goin sweetheart”. I say that to this day and pat the instrument panel after my flights. To me these amazing machines are living breathing entities that take care of me when we bring them to life. FLY SAFE!!
hawkeye0927: Your story just brings a tear to my eye...your flying career and hours in the air and the service to our country... in the air...are the inspiration that makes American Pilots the best there is...and I salute you!
hawkwye if i make a " Diagnosis" for you .. You falled in Love for lovely Planes /Ladies !!!.😉😇.✈️🛫🛬🚀 But i can't tell who's more lovely/ able Woman/ Man / or Airplanes?? have You a answer??
I thought so highly of Jean Seberg in this film. She was such a beautiful woman. I wish I could have helped her in her life with her depression. She had such a struggle in her lifetime. God Bless Her In Heaven.
@@Sub-Sownik The CIA and/or FBI (under that peach 🍑 of a man J. E. Hoover 🙄) had her under surveillance for 'allegedly' being affiliated with the Black Panthers & otherwise making her life hell. I believe she took her own life, sadly. She was in a good film from 1958 , directed by Otto Preminger- "Bonjour Tristesse" ,also starring David Niven and Deborah Kerr.
Sort of sad to see the look on the captain’s wife’s face as she watches him walk away. Now she has to drive home in inclement weather to wait for his eventual return and his announcement that he has a pregnant mistress in the hospital. Not a good night.
"This motion picture has been brought to you as a public service by Boeing. Whenever you fly, insist on genuine Boeing equipment. Remember, if it's not Boeing, I ain't going."
Love this movie when I was 7 years old. And the reason why I'm flying a B777 all over the world 53 years later. Just FYI, that B707 in the move went to Flying Tigers cargo and crashed on approach to GRU, very sad ending. The music starts in my head when I get the approach lights insight!
Anyone noticed the two Northwest, Lockheed L-188 "Electras" in the background starting at 1:49 not to mention a burnt orange Braniff, BAC 1-11, North Central Convair 580 and Douglas DC-9 and what appears to be a Western Airlines, Boeing 720.
There is my cousin, Jim Noah running up to Lancaster at the end, the Mr Bakersfield bit....took two weeks for weather to break in Mnpls for the sunny day they wanted for that closing scene
Saw this when I was twelve; it had just been released. It was exciting beyond description...much more "real" than James Bond fantasy! This ending is absolutely stunning!
Over the course of four movies and nine years he worked his way up from being the head TWA mechanic at Lincoln International Airport with license to being able to taxi planes to being the lead pilot of the Concorde. Nice work Petroni.
Thanks for the walk down memory lane.Enjoyed, I saw this movie when it first came out. It was,is a big time production. Great cast and cinematography. Loved the Priest slapping the asshole near the end. I always tell people when I fly,as a passenger ,It gives me time to catch up on my Drinking and Praying. lol, Never had anything like this.
And Alfred Newman's score properly has the last word closing the film, along with the '69 Ford Country Sedan - sheer perfection! Unfortunately, the Airport soundtrack re-recording doesn't come close to the original here - the brass isn't blasting as the bass, and the piano hasn't been arranged to briefly pop out with the melody as here. Pretty sure the very ending (missing here, what a shame!) is slightly different too.
I think you are right about (2). I only saw the film on TV many years ago, but I remember my parents laughing when Helen Hayes throws out the ticket to stowaway on the next flight.
@@ysmigraarzygler8387 That was Jessie Royce Landis in her last film role. Van Heflin was also in his last role as D.O. Guerrero. Both died within 2 years after the movie was released.
I love them all though I do think that Maureen Stapleton should have won for Best Supporting Actress. Hayes did well injecting some levity but Stapleton's performance was more nuanced in my opinion.
The whole movie Burt's too busy to go home to the wife and kids but when he has a date for breakfast with a hot young blonde it's "tell him to take care of it himself". Meanwhile Deano ditches his wife to be with stewardess he knocked up, LOL.
The soap opera snotty wife is pretty derivative of daytime soap operas- it's too bad the stowaway didn't have a run in with her just to make it more interesting.
Ahhhhh.......MSP filling in for ORD. My Grandfather worked for Braniff (note the Orange Bac111 1:47 taxing to the gate) at MSP back then and hated those "Hollywood Asses" creating havoc around the airport. I was born a year before this film went into production.
cameraman655 And the North Central Airlines DC-9 and Convair 580s At 2:11. Used to watch them at GRR when I was a kid. And are those Northwest Lockeed Electras with the Red Tails?
Everything but the bomber and Helen Hayes storylines are '70s daytime drama at best. They could've had much more interesting subplots in the airport but once you take flight it pays off.
The reason Joe Patroni (George Kennedy) is wearing a TWA hat & coat is that the character is based on a real life TWA employee. My old man flew 30 yrs for TWA and I think he told me this.
Arthur Hailey spent five years doing research in order to write Airport, and Petroni was no doubt based on a real guy. At the airports back then (don't know if they still do) I'm sure they all wore their parent airline logo on their jumpsuits with matching ballcaps. I remember going to the airport as a kid and seeing them. I'm also sure the Lloyd Nolan Customs Inspector character was based on a real person, as was the Helen Hayes character.
I've always wondered how the Barbara Hale/Dean Martin/Jackie Bisset triangle resolved itself. The filmmakers seemed to leave it in--pardon me--mid-air. The crying sequence makes sense---they must have trimmed it for length I'll bet.
@baraxor yes i guess your right alex haley did a good job with not only the story but with making us understand all the jobs at the airport pilot.mechanic, stewardess,manager,ground crew,gate agent do you work in the aviation industry?
Star Burt Lancaster supposedly made a fortune off this film. His contract gave him a 10% profit participation once the movie hit $50 million. It grossed $128 million worldwide. I wonder if the studio made good or did they engage in "studio accounting" so common at the time.
I always thought she gave that look because the two have had a long-ass night filled with anxiety and tension and he expect her to make him breakfast. She's like "I'm exhausted, and you just want me to spend time making your ass food?" She wanted to a restaurant so she wouldn't have to cook! She knows that it was better just to give in sadly. 9/28/18
0:29 "Remind me to send a thank you note to Mr. Boeing". Had they had Google in 1969 (assuming a pilot or scriptwriter wouldn't know otherwise) they would have found that William E. Boeing, the founder died in 1956. 55 years later the Max would recreate the hole.
@widewiilover also so notice some company bigshot in a suite measuring the bomb hole i think it would make better sense if they had showed a mechanic doing this work
Well at least now that Mel's no longer hitched up to that b**** wife of his at least he can get a little nookie now and then from his hopefully second wife Tanya Livingston hey nothing wrong with a little bouncy bouncy!
The United 747 between Honolulu and New Zealand had an even huger hole in it not due to a bomb exploding but because of faulty maintenance which caused a Cargo door to break loose! Eight people were killed, and a Female Flight Attendant was nearly sucked out!
Boeing helped build this country, and they will continue to be important as the U.S. moves forward. A corporation this complex is going to have problems. Ask Toyota. For decades they were the paragon of quality in the automobile industry, but lately, their brand new Toyota Tundra trucks have V-8 engines that disintegrate a few months after you buy them!
Robert Rogers Yep, there’s a great scene where he brags to Bakersfeld how he got guys from other airlines to help dig out the stuck jet, only 1 of the airlines he named is still around!
@clydesplace Well, I can understand why. She was married to a man who loved his job more than anything. She tried to understand his position and tried to help him better himself, but she couldn't. After all this time, she couldn't take it anymore. She got tired of having to take a back seat to the airport business.
@@ysmigraarzygler8387 Also uncredited was William Boyett as the Global maintenance chief who first tried to free the stuck 707. He played Sgt. MacDonald on Adam-12. I had at first thought it was Vic Tayback, who played Mel Sharples on Alice.
Bakersfeld made out great in the end.. gets rid of the nagging old bag he was married to, then gets to take Mrs. Livingston back to her apartment for a nice schnarlin and some scrambled eggs...Shweeeeet...
Boeing Aircraft ! For fast, effective delivery of anything since well before they stuck out their financial necks and gave U.S. the B-17 heavy bomber in 1935.
Boeing was only a minor player in the piston engine era. Their first big break was the B47 and B52 bombers and the KC135 tanker. Those laid much of the ground work for the 707, with which Boeing hit the jackpot. The airframes of the 727, 737, and 757 were largely derived from that of the 707. All were wide enough to seat 6 across in economy, giving them a big advantage over narrower rivals. The 747 was largely recycled from rejected plans for a USAF super transport; Lockheed won that one with the C5A, of which there was talk of a civil version in the Airport book.
This is such an awesome book... I've read it around 75 times... This movie is just a piece of crap, except George Kennedy's part... A very poorly directed film...
George Kennedy was awesome in this movie! I was already knee deep into airplanes at the ripe old age of 7 when this came out in 1970. My dad took me to see it and I remember I couldn’t sit still due to all the airplane scenes!
Fast forward 50 years... and 267 Carrier landings, one major airline job and my current job as a Sr Corporate pilot flying all over the world and I still love this movie. Still have that boyish enthusiasm for all things aviation.
And I use George K’s line when he compliments his jet with the “Nice goin sweetheart”. I say that to this day and pat the instrument panel after my flights. To me these amazing machines are living breathing entities that take care of me when we bring them to life.
FLY SAFE!!
My favorite line from any movie.
hawkeye0927: Your story just brings a tear to my eye...your flying career and hours in the air and the service to our country... in the air...are the inspiration that makes American Pilots the best there is...and I salute you!
Geroge Kennedy was good in everything
@@openmind1966
Thank you! It’s been a privilege:)
hawkwye if i make a " Diagnosis" for you ..
You falled in Love for lovely Planes /Ladies !!!.😉😇.✈️🛫🛬🚀
But i can't tell who's more lovely/ able
Woman/ Man / or Airplanes?? have You a answer??
I'm so glad Helen Hayes won her Oscar for this!
George Kennedy....thank you for your many years of great acting... RIP So long Joe Patroni!
I know a Joe his last name is Tancredi
Spoken like a aircraft mechanic....."Nice going sweetheart" indeed :)
My favorite line from any movie.
I thought so highly of Jean Seberg in this film. She was such a beautiful woman. I wish I could have helped her in her life with her depression. She had such a struggle in her lifetime. God Bless Her In Heaven.
What the CIA did to her was evil. She was such a lovely person.
@@jodifisher2183 what did the CIA done to her? (Just asking)
@@jodifisher2183 I thought it was actually the FBI. There are several stories that can be found.
@@Sub-Sownik The CIA and/or FBI (under that peach 🍑 of a man J. E. Hoover 🙄) had her under surveillance for 'allegedly' being affiliated with the Black Panthers & otherwise making her life hell. I believe she took her own life, sadly. She was in a good film from 1958 , directed by Otto Preminger- "Bonjour Tristesse" ,also starring David Niven and Deborah Kerr.
@@goodowner5000 damn, i never knew that. Sadly to hear indeed she committed suïcide. I just don't understand why people can be such dirtbags 😑
Sort of sad to see the look on the captain’s wife’s face as she watches him walk away. Now she has to drive home in inclement weather to wait for his eventual return and his announcement that he has a pregnant mistress in the hospital. Not a good night.
Yeah no kidding
She needs to hire Perry Mason for her divorce.
She probably danced & laughed all the way to her Lawyer's office knowing she can fleece him out of every penny he'll ever make ...
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Moral to this story…DON’T BE A KAREN! 😮
"This motion picture has been brought to you as a public service by Boeing. Whenever you fly, insist on genuine Boeing equipment. Remember, if it's not Boeing, I ain't going."
I'm not choosy. So long as whatever equipment can get me to my desired destination safely is what's important to me.
Love this movie when I was 7 years old. And the reason why I'm flying a B777 all over the world 53 years later. Just FYI, that B707 in the move went to Flying Tigers cargo and crashed on approach to GRU, very sad ending. The music starts in my head when I get the approach lights insight!
Anyone noticed the two Northwest, Lockheed L-188 "Electras" in the background starting at 1:49 not to mention a burnt orange Braniff, BAC 1-11, North Central Convair 580 and Douglas DC-9 and what appears to be a Western Airlines, Boeing 720.
There is my cousin, Jim Noah running up to Lancaster at the end, the Mr Bakersfield bit....took two weeks for weather to break in Mnpls for the sunny day they wanted for that closing scene
Patroni is such a bad ass!
He was my favorite character
Great movie to watch on a snowy night
"nice goin' sweet heart".....
man i'll always remember George Kennedy as Joe Patroni. he was so believeable in that role.
Always the blue collar guy that can't be rattled.
Patroni was supposedly based on a real guy who was the ultimate troubleshooter who worked at one of the major airports.
@@870Rem12gauge Yeah...except that sometimes that guy gets an education and still can't be rattled. That's me. My employer *loves* it.
Good for you!
My favorite line from any movie.
Saw this when I was twelve; it had just been released. It was exciting beyond description...much more "real" than James Bond fantasy! This ending is absolutely stunning!
Nice, sharp edit from the terminal to the hangar. Beautiful long shot of a great plane. Outstanding music is perfect for this scene.
George Kennedy was the only actor to appear in all 4 Airport movies.('70,'75,'77 & '79)
Over the course of four movies and nine years he worked his way up from being the head TWA mechanic at Lincoln International Airport with license to being able to taxi planes to being the lead pilot of the Concorde. Nice work Petroni.
Although I bet he had wished he had skipped 79
None of them were as good as the original!
@@ysmigraarzygler8387 Yup, and some how Marie and his 5 kids vanished and Ellen and his one kid mysteriously appeared...lol
"Nice goin', sweetheart."
It was directed with such style!
RIP NW and Braniff Airlines.
Thanks for the walk down memory lane.Enjoyed, I saw this movie when it first came out. It was,is a big time production. Great cast and cinematography. Loved the Priest slapping the asshole near the end. I always tell people when I fly,as a passenger ,It gives me time to catch up on my Drinking and Praying. lol, Never had anything like this.
And Alfred Newman's score properly has the last word closing the film, along with the '69 Ford Country Sedan - sheer perfection! Unfortunately, the Airport soundtrack re-recording doesn't come close to the original here - the brass isn't blasting as the bass, and the piano hasn't been arranged to briefly pop out with the melody as here. Pretty sure the very ending (missing here, what a shame!) is slightly different too.
I love the music.
I saw this film in the movies. Love the music
one of my favorite movie ..........thank you...
SURELY U CAN'T BE SERIOUS!, I AM SERIOUS....AND STOP CALLING ME SHIRLEY!!! 😂😂
I think you are right about (2). I only saw the film on TV many years ago, but I remember my parents laughing when Helen Hayes throws out the ticket to stowaway on the next flight.
Thank you Mr. Kennedy.
Her leaving him was the nicest thing she ever did as his wife.
I bet he like those scrambled eggs lol
Kennedy and Hayes ! Best actors and charactor parts in the whole movie.
He had a smaller role but I liked Lloyd Nolan too as the Customs Inspector who busted the old lady with the fake labels on her clothes.
Dean Martin was good too
@@ysmigraarzygler8387 That was Jessie Royce Landis in her last film role. Van Heflin was also in his last role as D.O. Guerrero. Both died within 2 years after the movie was released.
I love them all though I do think that Maureen Stapleton should have won for Best Supporting Actress. Hayes did well injecting some levity but Stapleton's performance was more nuanced in my opinion.
Nice going sweetheart, remind me to send a thank-you note to Mr. Boing. Famous quotes from Airport.
Awesome. Thanks
Helen Hayes, Great actress.....
Why is the ending cut off? The fantastic theme music to end this great film is superb and many people want to hear it !!!!!
The whole movie Burt's too busy to go home to the wife and kids but when he has a date for breakfast with a hot young blonde it's "tell him to take care of it himself". Meanwhile Deano ditches his wife to be with stewardess he knocked up, LOL.
He's divorced now, he's got all the time he wants. And besides, after the night he's endured, can you blame him???
Back in the day when Men could trade up.
Burt in the movie had a nagging wife.
Awesome ending. First of the disaster films, and maybe the best.
The soap opera snotty wife is pretty derivative of daytime soap operas- it's too bad the stowaway didn't have a run in with her just to make it more interesting.
The High and the Mighty was better!
@@arthurgearheard4701 Haven't seen that one. I wonder why TCM doesn't play it.
@@johnlewinski6359 John Wayne played the Captain! It was made in 1954!
@@arthurgearheard4701 nah, airport is far superior
Sure it's not the best film but it has long been a favourite. The cast, the lines, music etc.
Jean Seberg so beautiful!
Thanks you,MISTER BOIENG!
BOEING
FLIMED AT WOLD CHAMBERLAIN FIELD....MSP INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, TWIN CITIES, MN.
As, it is good to reminisce about a time when Boeing actually showed pride in its work.
Great ending!
Actually shot in Minneapolis. They had heavier snowfall at the time of filming.
Ahhhhh.......MSP filling in for ORD. My Grandfather worked for Braniff (note the Orange Bac111 1:47 taxing to the gate) at MSP back then and hated those "Hollywood Asses" creating havoc around the airport. I was born a year before this film went into production.
cameraman655 And the North Central Airlines DC-9 and Convair 580s At 2:11. Used to watch them at GRR when I was a kid. And are those Northwest Lockeed Electras with the Red Tails?
@@petergaylord4241 Probably, NWA always had red tail fins and was based at MSP.
Everything but the bomber and Helen Hayes storylines are '70s daytime drama at best. They could've had much more interesting subplots in the airport but once you take flight it pays off.
The reason Joe Patroni (George Kennedy) is wearing a TWA hat & coat is that the character is based on a real life TWA employee. My old man flew 30 yrs for TWA and I think he told me this.
Arthur Hailey spent five years doing research in order to write Airport, and Petroni was no doubt based on a real guy. At the airports back then (don't know if they still do) I'm sure they all wore their parent airline logo on their jumpsuits with matching ballcaps. I remember going to the airport as a kid and seeing them.
I'm also sure the Lloyd Nolan Customs Inspector character was based on a real person, as was the Helen Hayes character.
@@ysmigraarzygler8387 As was D.O. Guerrero.
I've always wondered how the Barbara Hale/Dean Martin/Jackie Bisset triangle resolved itself. The filmmakers seemed to leave it in--pardon me--mid-air. The crying sequence makes sense---they must have trimmed it for length I'll bet.
my father also liked flying the 707
@alinneth I don't think so.
@robwasmomsrob, wrong Haley...Arthur Hailey wrote the novel "Airport". Alex Haley wrote the novel "Roots". Both good books, though.
Did Mr. Bakersfield drive that Ford wagon across an active taxiway right in front of that Braniff BAC111?
That plane had a hole similar to this flower like perforation on the side of the cabin.
0:33 indeed thankyou mr boeing
@baraxor yes i guess your right alex haley did a good job with not only the story but with making us understand all the jobs at the airport pilot.mechanic, stewardess,manager,ground crew,gate agent do you work in the aviation industry?
It was Arthur Hailey… not Alex. Alex did Roots not Airport
@MidwayCastaway
He's still around although very elderly.
Super mouvie
Star Burt Lancaster supposedly made a fortune off this film. His contract gave him a 10% profit participation once the movie hit $50 million. It grossed $128 million worldwide. I wonder if the studio made good or did they engage in "studio accounting" so common at the time.
"First Class." ~ What Style
Must of been one of the last movies to use THE END.... Jean doesn't seem too thrilled with him coming over.....
irish89055 or maybe she realized her apartment was a mess and wasn't expecting company😄
I always thought she gave that look because the two have had a long-ass night filled with anxiety and tension and he expect her to make him breakfast. She's like "I'm exhausted, and you just want me to spend time making your ass food?" She wanted to a restaurant so she wouldn't have to cook! She knows that it was better just to give in sadly. 9/28/18
Jean wasn't too thrilled to do this movie--she may have let that shine through at the very end.
It was probably that “time of the month”!
0:29 "Remind me to send a thank you note to Mr. Boeing". Had they had Google in 1969 (assuming a pilot or scriptwriter wouldn't know otherwise) they would have found that William E. Boeing, the founder died in 1956. 55 years later the Max would recreate the hole.
Now that I look at it closely, it looks more like a Mercury wagon not a Ford ( same difference, really).
How the hell did Bakersfeld land a sort like that? What a darling she looked. Probably half his age too....
@Darryl80
Nope.
@widewiilover also so notice some company bigshot in a suite measuring the bomb hole i think it would make better sense if they had showed a mechanic doing this work
He was most likely NTSB; he looks awfully familiar if you freeze the frame and take a good look at him.
It's "suit" (clothing). A suite is a group of rooms.
Mel is going to taste her "scrambled eggs"!
Well at least now that Mel's no longer hitched up to that b**** wife of his at least he can get a little nookie now and then from his hopefully second wife Tanya Livingston hey nothing wrong with a little bouncy bouncy!
In other words Mel is going to get some nookie later on😂.
Does anyone know what kind of station wagon that is that Lancaster is driving? Been trying to find out for years!
DonaldTaft ...1969 Ford Country Sedan Station Wagon
The United 747 between Honolulu and New Zealand had an even huger hole in it not due to a bomb exploding but because of faulty maintenance which caused a Cargo door to break loose! Eight people were killed, and a Female Flight Attendant was nearly sucked out!
@clydesplace
Jean Seberg was a real cutie.
An A330 endured something like this for real in the Middle East recently.
IT's TOO NOISY! CAN'T HEAR A THING!!
Was "scrambled eggs" a euphemism? LOL They're great, baby!
So Mel he got some tail? Damn,he doing ok!
Joe Patroni, I've loved you since I was a boy. I still want you to be my daddy. You're so beautiful.
I'll BET he wanted to see how good her scrambled eggs were! And in the daytime, too~~~~oh, my!
Ooh boy!
Send a thank you note to Mr. Boeing. Well, that was then. How things have changed.
Boeing helped build this country, and they will continue to be important as the U.S. moves forward. A corporation this complex is going to have problems. Ask Toyota. For decades they were the paragon of quality in the automobile industry, but lately, their brand new Toyota Tundra trucks have V-8 engines that disintegrate a few months after you buy them!
Or just leaving it to our imagination on how the triangle ended. I say Dean went with Jackie while Barbara made out big in a divorce settlement !
9aspengold5 ...and accepted that offer to work for that lawyer out west, Perry-something
someone said that is minnealpolis airport they r using
www.imdb.com/title/tt0065377/locations?ref_=tt_dt_dt
Yes our little airport I used to look like that. That was never acknowledged in the credits.
Amazing how far Boeing has fallen
did anyone notice joe petronis shirt and hat have the TWA logo on them?
Robert Rogers Yep, there’s a great scene where he brags to Bakersfeld how he got guys from other airlines to help dig out the stuck jet, only 1 of the airlines he named is still around!
He made the point early on that with mechanics, they ALL come running when someone is in trouble - doesn't matter which airline they're with.
@widewiilover
a ford, looks like either country squire or torino...
1969 Ford country squire
The Squire had woodgrain sides, Mel's car didn't. That would have made it a much lesser model, maybe a Ranch Wagon, or at most a Country Sedan.
Old Burt is after more than just Jean Seberg's scambled eggs...good thing this movie was only rated "M" for mature.
In 1970, I know this movie was rated G. It was the "Patton " movie that was rated M.
Actually it was rated G
@@707av8r1 I stand corrected. Thanks.
Joe Patroni was & is my hero! 👨🏼✈️
1:53 На заднем плане - Курский вокзал в Москве! ))
@clydesplace Well, I can understand why. She was married to a man who loved his job more than anything. She tried to understand his position and tried to help him better himself, but she couldn't. After all this time, she couldn't take it anymore. She got tired of having to take a back seat to the airport business.
She was also a social climber, and in the book a frustrated actress.
Is that Gordon Jump measuring the size of the hole in the plane?
It is according to the Internet Movie Database. He's listed as uncredited. The guy sure looks like him.
I'm actually the one who added the IMDB entry for him a couple days ago.
@@ysmigraarzygler8387 Also uncredited was William Boyett as the Global maintenance chief who first tried to free the stuck 707. He played Sgt. MacDonald on Adam-12. I had at first thought it was Vic Tayback, who played Mel Sharples on Alice.
Just a days drive to WKRP in Cincinnati.
Bakersfeld made out great in the end.. gets rid of the nagging old bag he was married to, then gets to take Mrs. Livingston back to her apartment for a nice schnarlin and some scrambled eggs...Shweeeeet...
0:31 Yeah, that didn’t age well….
My thoughts exactly
no thank you notes to airbus...
Airbus didn't even exist back then.
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Boeing Aircraft ! For fast, effective delivery of anything since well before they stuck out their financial necks and gave U.S. the B-17 heavy bomber in 1935.
Boeing was only a minor player in the piston engine era. Their first big break was the B47 and B52 bombers and the KC135 tanker. Those laid much of the ground work for the 707, with which Boeing hit the jackpot. The airframes of the 727, 737, and 757 were largely derived from that of the 707. All were wide enough to seat 6 across in economy, giving them a big advantage over narrower rivals. The 747 was largely recycled from rejected plans for a USAF super transport; Lockheed won that one with the C5A, of which there was talk of a civil version in the Airport book.
@robwasmomsrob
Actually, I thought that he was an engineer/investigator from the NTSB
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Nothing in the book about “thanking Mr. Boeing”. I wonder where all the pro-Boeing accolades came from.
Back when Boeing was… well, Boeing.
Does Gwen die?
Not that I know of but she had some major injuries
This is such an awesome book... I've read it around 75 times... This movie is just a piece of crap, except George Kennedy's part... A very poorly directed film...
I think the "scrambled eggs" were code for something else??
Correct. It actually meant, 'Tossed Salad'. Lol!
Scrambled eggs with a side of bouncy bouncy!
Gee, what a choice - fix the snow plough or go back to her apartment for bacon eggs and a side of nookie! 🤔
As Trevor from GTA V would say"the things I do for bouncy bouncy!"
He should have done it all for the Nookie!
I hated the split screen shots in this film. No they were not innovative
Its funny how times change. Nothing will kill you faster now than a Boeing.