Help me find a movie

[Dick Huish]

Re: Help me find a movie

spinach Dick

[Howard Wilson]

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Yup! He had a couple of planes over the years, all named spinach.

[M Jones]

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I agree. The last fairly recent movie that cast a positive light on a GA flight I remember was "The Thomas Crown Affair" (remake around 1999). I'm glider rated, and it seemed to be a hit with the other rated people I know also just for the glider scene. The thing was, the flight was portrayed fairly well I believe, but then most non-pilots probably believe even more now that it's a sport for only Pierce Brosnan types, and other rich people....

[Ed O'Brien]

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Jeff Daniels played a Dad leading some geese or cranes back to their winter home. That's about the only movie I've ever seen that showed the majesty of flight without it being specifically about the majesty of flight... like some of the Imax shows about flight are...

The new Samuel Jackson Movie is called "Snakes on a Plane". It comes out in a month or so. He plays a terrorist trying to kill a witness on a plane full of US Marshall... kind of ConAir part two, I suppose. Sounds exciting but flying won't be promoted with this one.

My point about this topic is... the media maligns not what it doesn't understand... but what it thinks the audience doesn't understand and can be manipulated in to believing.
Frankly, it reflects media and audience laziness. That's why every new thing from cloning, to computers, to nuclear power, to little airplanes, to bird flu, to Africanized bees gets own horror movie first. I suppose it might be the same for Muslims in general and other things that I'm not all that personally familiar with. I'm not trying to make a political statement here, just take responsibility for my own consciousness. I wonder how many great things in my life I didn't do because of some "foolish" fear in my head -- I can start with aerobatics. How about you?
With regards;
Ed O'Brien

[crispy critter]

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Nope,sorry Ed.I love aerobatics and if done properly they are perfectly safe.I try to live life as it comes.I don't fear what I have never tried regaurdless of what others have said(I may take my time and respect it more) but I won't knock it until I've tried it....Believe it or,I have yet to find anything I wouldn't try a second time,of course with the exception of my 1st wife.......however one never knows.lol

[Ed O'Brien]

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No matter how much we know and how brave we are... all of us have some irrational fear. Maybe not enough to cause a full-on panic attack but certainly something that'll take us out of our way to avoid. I won't sky dive, and the thought of base jumping gives me the screaming willies. That said, I've done things that others thought fool-hardy if not brave. I've raced cars in SCCA events, driven coast to coast via motorcycle, done some high altitude technical mountain climbing, chased a criminal or two, shot at numerous NRA sponsored events every year, and gone to war -- etc.

Bravery indicates that one has overcome something that others fear. Most of the time that fear is irrational. Most of that irrationality is induced by others. Some of that fear is induced by the media. The media uses irrational fear for commercial purposes. Hence, media sends the message that GA flying is unsafe... the media, at least about this subject, is dead wrong!
With regards;
ED OBRIEN

[VictorBravo]

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The original Spinach owned by Robert Cummings is a 1936 Porterfield, powered by a LeBlond radial. It lives, and flies occasionally, at Whiteman Airport here in Los Angeles. The owner is a fellow named John Crittenden if anyone wants to track it down.

For anyone wanting to see a good modern flying "movie", I heartily suggest "One Six Right" by Brian Terwilliger. This is a spectacular documentary about the history of Van Nuys airport here in LA, the world's busiest GA airport. Terwilliger has made an emotional, inspiring, and absolutely gorgeous film that has gone outside the normal boundaries of a documentary. It features simply the most beautiful air to air footage ever shot.

Because it is a documentary does not mean that there is no "plot" or story. The heart and soul of this airport and its pilots creates an emotional love story in the movie that provides the entertainment value. It is NOT a dry, soul-less documentary film.

That being said, there's no gunshots, no boobs, no car chase, no explosions. But there is a bad guy

The movie delves into the numbers of airports that are being lost, and gives Chicago's Meigs Field as an example. The Dishonorable Mayor Richard Daley had the runway torn up in the middle of the night without the legal authority to do so, just to use the land for a park named after his wife.

The film is available on DVD. I think it is www.onesixright.com