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Article #619802Re: 1956 -- circuit reliability book
From: Alfred Falk
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 22:52
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 22:52
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Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote in news:p4q...@news1.newsguy.com: > On 2018-01-30, Bob Eager <news...@eager.cx> wrote: > >> 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. > > We read a play script in school; it was titled "Flight Into Danger". My brother did too, but I never did. I did see the original TV drama several times as a child. I was pretty young, much of it would have gone over my head. I do have remembered images of some of the actors - it would be interesting to see it again, and check for match. Most were CBC regulars in those days.
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