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LOL, hey, can't promise it won't happen again, but like I said earlier..I've earned my stripes and have been given permission by the Women's College I attended ;)

It's all with love :)

I'll add ya now!

Just curious: why did you choose to attend a women's college? Was it something other than the ratio?

(I didn't know men could do that - kinda defeats the purpose, eh?)
 
I will friend you, too, but then you'll have to see all my aviation stories on Facebook!

Let me know when you're in SFO and we'll do the "duckie" video for real. You can fly some of the time too.
 
Friend request still hasn't been accepted. :(
 
Just curious: why did you choose to attend a women's college? Was it something other than the ratio?

(I didn't know men could do that - kinda defeats the purpose, eh?)

Good question!

I can't speak for the college in terms of defeating the purpose or not, but it's not the only school that allows men and still maintains a WOMENS COLLEGE classification. It's a ratio thing for them. They have to maintain a certain guy/girl ratio to keep that status. It's why my first year I was one of 9 (i think) and the last year, one of 16. More females= more guys they can have. Since the males are only in two departments: dance/theatre...it's easy for them to control.

I chose that particular school because I attended a community college and started doing theatre then. By the time I hit my 3rd year, I knew I wanted to continue on to my BFA program and I looked at various schools, but Stephens would have many perks (aside from the obvious you were hinting at ;) ) and one of them being a nice percentage of scholarship (which considering my current loans...eesh). The other was that, as males, you'd be required to work on EVERY show, be it on or off stage. The other was because it is a three year program, and they'd be allowing me to enter, accepting my other credits so that I only would have to do two years to earn my BFA. Most other programs want to build you from the first year up. I didn't want my three years to go to waste. So it put me right on par, earned my BFA in 5 years. I also like seeing different places. I could have easily looked at a school in NY, but it's too close to home and I wanted something different.

AND...yes..it IS a women's college, so that didn't hurt.
 
I sent you a friend request, Ace.

Thanks Dave! I'll look for it!

YES! If anyone else adds me on FB and it is not an obvious name I'd recognize from your name on here, please let me know it's you!!
 
I will friend you, too, but then you'll have to see all my aviation stories on Facebook!

Let me know when you're in SFO and we'll do the "duckie" video for real. You can fly some of the time too.

That's ok!! It'll hold me over till I'm back in the states :)

ABSOLUTELY!! I like duckies
 
Hey all! I see some of you found me on FB! Thanks :)

I'm excited to see your posts and stories :)

Things are going great here. Rehearsal and time to acclimate to the city/country. Today is our last day --- tomorrow is first day on set!!!

I love it here. I've not noticed many planes...but I've got my models I'm going to be working on.

Things move slowly here...internet, people, service...kind of nice actually.

I've been posting daily videos/blogs if you are bored and are one of those people that takes your iPhone, iPad or such in place of a newspaper to certain places... ;)

They've made some adjustments to the script for our flight purposes. I shared what I learned from you and they did some additional research as well to accommodate, so thanks!

JOE! No more Lear Jet! It's a double engine Cessna. I'll have to get further clarification, but it seems it will be more like what I've seen and ridden in???

They told me that the plane they have is actually the type they DO use for drugs. I didn't ask how they knew, lol.

Joe, I told them yesterday about the technique you shared with me. I have mentioned before, but in the scene, I have to essentially "fix the auto pilot" then I use it as a distraction to knock out one of the goons and grab his gun. Joe shared a method that would send the goon flying into the ceiling of the aircraft, thus knocking him out.

We'll see if they use that!

Talk soon amigos! (my spanish is getting better, see?)
 
if my idea works then I need a writing credit too - thats money!

hahahah

the procedure 'could' also cause some mayhem in the airplane as well since they could hit switches in the overhead panel!
 
Sorry Sara! Will do now!

It's slow here! ;)

Thanks! My postings may be sort of lame alot. They were entertaining when I was in flight training. But in the next coming weeks I should be posting about my tail dragger experience. (weather permitting!)
 
Except that he would need a metric ****pile of forward stick to keep it flying while inverted and (apparently) the whole premise of the movie was that the elevator was stuck or something.

Trying to roll while the nose is already way down (as I'm guessing is what the movie shows) is usually a good way to pull the wings off of a non-aerobatic aircraft. If you want to aileron roll something like, say, a King Air (no, it was not me) or a 707 (Tex Johnson) you really need to get the nose up first.

I ran across a good still photo of the roll, and some additional details about it:

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/theboeingcompany/6005675903/

Boeing brought the world of commercial aviation into the jet age with the debut of the 707, but the very visible public debut of that plane, then known as the 367-80 (or simply the “Dash Eighty”), had Boeing president Bill Allen very upset. The plane hadn’t won over any buyers yet and you could understand his nervousness (or fury) when he saw his company’s prototype jetliner do an unexpected barrel roll in front of a quarter million people and an assembled group of potential customers. The pilot was a former barnstormer who knew what he was doing. Still…

The legendary barrel roll maneuver took place over Seattle’s Lake Washington during a break in the action at the hydroplane Gold Cup races, 56 years ago today (1955 Aug 7). Today — another hydroplane race day — we honor that memorable stunt with a list of facts and a link to a photo and video.

22 FACTS ABOUT TEX JOHNSTON’S BARREL ROLL OF THE DASH-EIGHTY (BOEING 707)

  • Alvin “Tex” Johnston took his first airplane ride at age 11, soloed at 15, and was barnstorming right after high school.
  • He was a flight test engineer for Bell Aircraft and then Boeing, who hired him in 1948.
  • The 367-80 (or “Dash Eighty”) would become the Boeing 707, the world’s first commercial jet airliner.
  • No planes had been sold by the time the Gold Cup hydroplane races took place on August 7, 1955.
  • Boeing president Bill Allen had invited a number of potential buyers to watch the action from a barge in the lake.
  • A quarter million other spectators were there watching the races from boats and the lake shore. They had just watched the Blue Angels perform.
  • The plan was for Tex Johnston to fly the Dash Eighty over the crowd. It was to be a simple demonstration flyover.
  • Johnston had other ideas. And he knew what the plane could do.
  • Also on board were co-pilot Jim Gannett, flight test engineer Bill Whitehead, and flight engineer Bruce Mengel.
  • Johnston descended as he approached Lake Washington, reaching an altitude some say was as low as 500 feet.
  • He then turned the aileron and nudged the elevators, putting the big jetliner into a 1G barrel roll, a common barnstorming stunt in which a plane corkscrews 360 degrees, turning upside down before righting itself.
  • The stunt was NOT common for a large, unsold, protoype jetliner whose company’s reputation was on the line.
  • Bill Allen was NOT amused. Emmett Watson wrote that “ashen-faced and shaken,” Allen turned to a friend with known heart troubles and asked for ten heart pills. Bill Yenne said that “it took him more than two decades before he could discuss the incident with a modicum of humor.”
  • Tex Johnston came out of his dramatic barrel roll 1,200 feet higher, and banked the plane into a turn.
  • Then he came back toward the lake and performed a second flawless roll.
  • Jim Gannett’s photograph from inside the upside-down airplane is on the Internet.
  • So is a video of one of the barrel rolls.
  • Early Monday morning, Tex Johnston was called into the president’s office.
  • “What do you think you were doing out there??” Bill Allen demanded. (His actual words were probably a bit more earthy.)
  • “I was selling airplanes,” Tex Johnston replied.
  • Allen didn’t fire Johnston, but warned him not to do it again.
  • Johnston’s storied test-pilot career lasted more than three decades, including 20 years at Boeing.

SOURCES: The story is legendary and details are readily available. For this post I referenced my notes and a few short pieces in my library: “Tex Johnston” by Emmett Watson, The Seattle Times (as reprinted in Washingtonians, edited by David Brewster and David M Buerge (Seattle: Sasquatch Books, 1989). Bill Yenne, The Story of the Boeing Company (St Paul, MN: Zenith Press, 2005).

http://www.wa-list.com/?p=77

There were also problems with the design of Dash 80’s tail. All three test pilots had been aware of them from the start of the test flights, and apparently they were noticeable to others as well. However, they were not great enough to prevent Johnston from doing a seemingly impromptu barrel roll in front of 200,000 spectators. Then, for anyone who had missed it, he rolled Dash 80 again. In fact, Johnston’s famous rolls were a sort of pointed rebuttal. “I’d heard that Douglas was telling people our prototype was an unstable airplane,” Johnston says, “and I believe that when you fly for a company, you sell the product by demonstrating what it can do.”

The International Air Transport Association was meeting in Seattle, and airline executives from all over the world were scheduled to be at Lake Washington for the Gold Cup hydroplane races. “I knew we had to do something to impress ‘em,” Johnston recalls.

Earlier, when Allen had asked him to fly over the race course, Johnston decided he would impress ‘em by rolling Dash 80. Copilot Gannett had gotten an inkling of what was coming several hours earlier, when Johnston flew the airplane through a couple of rolls during a test flight. Allen, however, had no idea. When he looked up and saw his company’s biggest investment on its back, he looked like a clinical example of apoplexy, according to people seated near him. Everyone loved the stunt, but Allen never got over it. He fired Johnston at least a thousand times before they met the next morning and cooler heads prevailed. Nonetheless, the infamous maneuver was a forbidden subject in Allen’s presence for many years. At his retirement dinner in 1980, he was given a huge photograph taken from one of Dash 80’s windows while the airplane was upside down. He left it behind.

http://www.airspacemag.com/history-of-flight/Dash_80.html?c=y&page=3
 
if my idea works then I need a writing credit too - thats money!

hahahah

the procedure 'could' also cause some mayhem in the airplane as well since they could hit switches in the overhead panel!

I'll definitely let you know. LOL! Ok, no more re-writes Joe! We start tomorrow! ;)
 
Thanks! My postings may be sort of lame alot. They were entertaining when I was in flight training. But in the next coming weeks I should be posting about my tail dragger experience. (weather permitting!)

No judging, its a lll fun!
 
Hey all!!!

Tomorrow I film the airport/plane scenes!!

Believe it or not, as long as I've been out here...I've only filmed ONE day. That's hollywood for you, HURRY UP AND WAIT.

There has been a lot of work though with rehearsals and just supporting others on set and of course, once I start tomorrow, it doesn't end for me. We were shooting out one of the other actors, so it was easier to have me wait.

I'm very excited and will keep you posted!

If you have time, I've been keeping daily blogs/videos going as promised!

Ace
 
Ace, will this film be in major distribution when released? IOW, there's a chance it will be in of my local theaters?
 
Been nearly a month since this thread has activity. Anyone heard from Ace?
 
> It's a double engine Cessna.

[Ahem] ... twin-engine Cessna. Doubles are for tennis; or whiskey!
 
Yeah, where did he drop off to?

I see he got director credit?

"The Flight Plan tells the story of Ben Gray, an anxiety-ridden pilot. Ben, trying to escape his problems, finds himself stranded in Cartagena, Colombia after his documents and money are stolen. Now, he will need to go beyond the law to get back to the US in time to save his terminally ill son. The story takes place amidst a burgeoning war between bordering countries Colombia and Venezuela"
 
Yeah, where did he drop off to?

I see he got director credit?

"The Flight Plan tells the story of Ben Gray, an anxiety-ridden pilot. Ben, trying to escape his problems, finds himself stranded in Cartagena, Colombia after his documents and money are stolen. Now, he will need to go beyond the law to get back to the US in time to save his terminally ill son. The story takes place amidst a burgeoning war between bordering countries Colombia and Venezuela"

Ben Gray sounds like Ben Gay.
 
Did his movie ever hit the big screen? Did it hit the little screen?
 
According to his FaceBook: "A lot of you know I did a film in Cartagena, Colombia two summers ago. It's making it's premiere we JUST found out March 16th IN Colombia. I can't swing the $800 international flight on short notice, but was given a suggestion of doing an all or nothing, week long KICKSTARTER. What thinks you??" http://www.gofundme.com/79rhwo

Looks like he has already exceeded the goal.

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Please don't tell me they used the sounds of a piston engine starting for a turbine aircraft.... please.....oh, please.. :rolleyes:
 
I cannot imagine a commercial pilot being allowed to fly taking Valium.

You would need to take a first class medical exam where you must list all drugs you have EVER taken, or EVER been prescribed any drugs for anxiety, or any prescription drugs.

This sounds like a very ill conceived movie.
Up until I saw this post by Geico I didn't realize how old it was.
 
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