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Article #619809Re: 1956 -- circuit reliability book
From: Bob Eager
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 17:27
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 17:27
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On Tue, 30 Jan 2018 07:06:34 +0000, AndyW wrote: > On 29/01/2018 20:56, hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com 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. > > > Really? I didn't know that. > > I'm off to the wikipedia to read... See also what I wrote - Zero Hour is based on a book by Arthur Hailey (no, not Airport), and that is based on a TV movie also by him and John Castle. I have the book, and when I first watched Airplane I kept recignising stuff. The bit at the end "That was probably the worst landing..." is straight from the book. -- Using UNIX since v6 (1975)... Use the BIG mirror service in the UK: http://www.mirrorservice.org
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