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Article #619800Re: 1956 -- circuit reliability book
From: Bob Eager
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 17:29
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 17:29
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On Tue, 30 Jan 2018 01:15:39 +0000, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > On 2018-01-29, Bob Eager <news...@eager.cx> wrote: > >> On Mon, 29 Jan 2018 12:56:49 -0800, hancock4 wrote: >> >>> On Monday, January 29, 2018 at 2:06:41 AM UTC-5, AndyW wrote: >>> >>>> Or it could be like the joke in Airplane where throughout the entire >>>> film there is the sound of a prop plane but it's a jet....or maybe >>>> they just made a mistake. >>> >>> Pretty sure that was a subtle joke. >>> >>> "Airplane" is largely based on the 1950s film, "Zero Hour", using a >>> great deal of the original script. >> >> Zero Hour was 1957. It was in turn heavily based on "Flight Into >> Danger", >> written by Arthur Hailey (who later wrote "Airport"). >> >> Flight Into Danger was a 1956 TV film written by Hailey (and John >> Castle). It was later tuened into a book, which I have. > > The 1958 novelization was titled "Runway Zero-Eight". Typical of > Hailey's attention to detail, the destination airport, Vancouver, > actually has a runway 08, which is the most commonly used runway in > winter months. (It's now 08R; a parallel runway has since been built to > the north of it.) The copy I have is actually titled "Flight Into Danger"...leftpondian differences probably. -- Using UNIX since v6 (1975)... Use the BIG mirror service in the UK: http://www.mirrorservice.org
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