Just finished watching this movie with my wife. Did Harison Ford have a say in what airplane they would use. He does fly a Beaver himself.

Tim

I read that they were going to use a Gull Wing Stinson and he talked them into a Beaver.

I saw an interview with him about the movie. Seems like he said that the producers were not going to let him do the flying because of insurance reasons. He said that he was going to do the flying, insurance or not so just get used to the idea. As it ended up, he got his way.

He visited our small town this summer with his Caravan and spent quite a bit of time around SE. Everyone that ran into him here said he was nice.

gb

Clint Eastwood was the same way. As long as you talk about flying he's a good guy. You start talking about movies he just wants to get out of there. He used to fly into Columbia a lot. Kirt Russell and Goldie Hawn visited a few times too. She was sweet as can be. He, uh, wasn't.

Everything I've heard about Harrison Ford is that he's a down to earth guy.

Harrison Ford bought his Beaver after filming that movie.

I thought the movie was one of the lamest that Hollywood has put out to date, but at least it got Harrison Ford into a Beaver.....

MTV

mtv wrote:Harrison Ford bought his Beaver after filming that movie.

I thought the movie was one of the lamest that Hollywood has put out to date, but at least it got Harrison Ford into a Beaver.....

MTV

Yep, the article in FLYING said that he enjoyed the Beaver so much in the movie, he commissioned Kenmore Air to build him a knockdown model of his own.

I have bumped into him in SLC and JAC and he has always been friendly and courteous.

mtv wrote:

but at least it got Harrison Ford into a Beaver.....

MTV

Nice one sailor

Tim

He also flys a helicopter and I think he has a Cessna 206, or at least he did have a one time. He even made an emergency flight in his helicopter when the life flight pilot was our of hours because he had to fly on a fire. He is in charge of the young eagles project for the EAA. Bob

qmdv wrote:Just finished watching this movie with my wife. Did Harison Ford have a say in what airplane they would use. He does fly a Beaver himself.

Tim

Tim & Flight:
Met Harrison Ford at fuel pumps at Santa Paula (SZP) while I was filling up
my old 182. Harrison pulled up in Beaver on An fib floats. Great guy who loves to fly. When he made the movie 6 days -7 nights he offered to fly but job fell to Corky Foninof ( see web site http://beacheighteen.com) for pictures and description . I've met many Hollywierd folks and they still put there pants on one leg at a time. Had Clint Eastwood cleaning parts on his AS-350 during a inspection on his bird. Go to "Rockies" at Whiteman (WHP)
and you'll see dozens of actor pilots .

Tim,

Apparently it takes an ex submarine guy to get that, or everyone else is too polite to go there....

MTV

MTV

You are showing your age. This younger generation just doesn't use such euphemisms when discussing this such pleasing topics.

Nizina

I was curious about Ford's fleet of aircraft so found this interesting...
Ford owns various aircraft:
De Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver (N28S)
Aviat Husky A-1B (N6HY)
Cessna Citation CJ3 (N5GU)
Beech Bonanza B36T3
Cessna 208B Grand Caravan
1929 Waco Taperwing
Bell 407

Previous aircraft:
Gulfstream II
Gulfstream IVSP
Pilatus PC-12

mtv wrote: or everyone else is too polite to go there....

Given the choice, I'd be hard pressed to choose the capitalized version over the colloquial version on a sunny day, as long as it was a temporary decision.

He's probably been into more beavers than we'll ever know.

mtv wrote:Tim,

Apparently it takes an ex submarine guy to get that, or everyone else is too polite to go there....

MTV

Nahh. Just haven't had time to respond yet. Had a buddy that wore a tee shirt to work regularly that said, "Beaver, breakfast of Champions" It took his boss about a month to figure out what it was saying, and then he didn't wear it any more. Now, where did I put my dental floss.

tom

donknee wrote:I was curious about Ford's fleet of aircraft so found this interesting...
Ford owns various aircraft:
De Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver (N28S)
Aviat Husky A-1B (N6HY)
Cessna Citation CJ3 (N5GU)
Beech Bonanza B36T3
Cessna 208B Grand Caravan
1929 Waco Taperwing
Bell 407

Previous aircraft:
Gulfstream II
Gulfstream IVSP
Pilatus PC-12

In that previous aircraft column also belongs the Longranger L-IV that he crashed and destroyed and walked away from during his early rotorcraft flight training.

SixTwoLeemer wrote:

donknee wrote:I was curious about Ford's fleet of aircraft so found this interesting...
Ford owns various aircraft:
De Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver (N28S)
Aviat Husky A-1B (N6HY)
Cessna Citation CJ3 (N5GU)
Beech Bonanza B36T3
Cessna 208B Grand Caravan
1929 Waco Taperwing
Bell 407

Previous aircraft:
Gulfstream II
Gulfstream IVSP
Pilatus PC-12

In that previous aircraft column also belongs the Longranger L-IV that he crashed and destroyed and walked away from during his early rotorcraft flight training.

Add to that N206WT, the 206 previously mentioned. He is a down to earth guy who loves flying...