By Stanley Kubrick

What?????

No moving map GPS, no ADS-B, no Bushwheels? And hand-propped without a qualified pilot at the controls? I bet he didn't check NOTAMS and file a flight plan either. Better post this to the AOPA forums so they can blast the pilot for being so reckless and irresponsible.

Gump

Ah, a much less regulated time in 1951, when pilots used ded reckoning and pilotage and not doodads to get from here to there. With all of the "improvements" in general aviation, I'm not sure they're really all "improvements".

Cary

I thought you had to fly those old J-3's from the back seat when single pilot?

CW

Kubrick would have been 23 when he made that. I keep thinking of how Spartacus, Lolita, Dr. Strangelove, 2001, Clockwork Orange, Full Metal Jacket, and The Shining rattled out of the same brain case. Amazing.

GumpAir wrote:What?????

No moving map GPS, no ADS-B, no Bushwheels? And hand-propped without a qualified pilot at the controls? I bet he didn't check NOTAMS and file a flight plan either. Better post this to the AOPA forums so they can blast the pilot for being so reckless and irresponsible.

Gump

Indeed, and he was also flying much too low, obviously having too much fun. We don't even want to talk about the 3 rd passenger and the lack of a engineered child safety restraint system

lesuther wrote:Kubrick would have been 23 when he made that. I keep thinking of how Spartacus, Lolita, Dr. Strangelove, 2001, Clockwork Orange, Full Metal Jacket, and The Shining rattled out of the same brain case. Amazing.

Yup, it was his second "film". The first being another newsreel. He became a little more anti-establishment before doing many of them though!

Speaking of flying padres, I picked up an MAF calendar at their booth at the NW aviation show this weekend. A few vintage photos, including Jan's photo of a Pacer on floats being rolled through the jungle(JZ tail number-- Indonesia?) on a crude wheeled cart, circa 1950.

Thanks for sharing that, rw2!

I'm a big Kubrick fan. To think that only 6 years after this he'd make Paths of Glory, one of my all-time favorite movies.