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filegI was looking for the old post I had made about the smell of my muses, and I could not resist poking the haiku generator.... hmmmm now who could this message be for?
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I quite liked Flight Plan - though more Bean would not have come amiss. Jim liked the credits at the end best (it's an engineer thing) and only briefly broke in to tell me what was wrong with the plane design.
He's quite famous in the family for those moments. (My favorite being in Romancing The Stone, when they fall through the jungle into the plane - and everyone in the theater gasps or squeals - and Jim exclaims: "Good lord, a DC-3!")
in a way, the very casting of Bean as the pilot was a brilliant red herring - people are so used to him being the bad guy, it helps them jump to that conclusion with very little prodding.
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I quite liked Flight Plan - though more Bean would not have come amiss. Jim liked the credits at the end best (it's an engineer thing) and only briefly broke in to tell me what was wrong with the plane design.
He's quite famous in the family for those moments. (My favorite being in Romancing The Stone, when they fall through the jungle into the plane - and everyone in the theater gasps or squeals - and Jim exclaims: "Good lord, a DC-3!")
in a way, the very casting of Bean as the pilot was a brilliant red herring - people are so used to him being the bad guy, it helps them jump to that conclusion with very little prodding.
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Date: 2005-09-27 09:23 am (UTC)Jim's actual degree is in aeronautical engineering (though as things worked out, I don't think he ever worked on any planes.) Any historical movies with machines are open to evaluation - he especially hates it when tanks from the wrong side get used in movies.
Flight Plan is not a great thriller or an overly complex story. It works for me because it delivers enough to be engaging. Sean is wonderful, caught in a tight spot.
The ending is the least satisfying part, but I wasn't really looking for versimilitude - cathartic was better for me this week.
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Date: 2005-09-27 07:56 pm (UTC)- When I was interning at Langley, VA I designed a pod to house a camera under one of NASA's Canberras. If I recall, it was to film the wing's flexure under load, but I cannot recall what the purpose of the project was... I also layed out static conditions to simulate flight loads on another Canberra's wings. The static load was to be applied to the grounded bomber's wing with sandbags. Appropriate technology, eh wot?
- While at Grumman I did some design work on the BEAR test rocket (so it's not quite an aircraft... sue me.) BEAR was a project to test fire a neutral particle beam in the upper atmosphere. It was a proof-of-principle for one component of Rubberbutt Regan's Star Wars boondoggle.