[SOT] Movies

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William R. Frensley wrote:
James Nicoll wrote:
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2: The one where the plane was brought down with coffee.

"Fate is the Hunter," 1964, with Glen Ford, based on the book by
Ernest K. Gann.



Thanks! That is the one where they use a recreation at the
end, right?

One thing that really struck me about both _The Right Stuff_ [1]
and _Apollo 13_ is how, uh, flimsy and clunky the equipement looks.
Especially TRS, where I am amazed there were ever people who routinely
climbed into what look like flying death traps. Kudos, of course, because
without those people we wouldn't have the current non-death traps.

James Nicoll

1: Another thing that struck me is that for no reason I can defend, I
find modern aircraft a lot uglier than WWII planes. I freely admit
"not falling out of the air" and "doing their job better" are much
better metrics than "pretty".
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