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Wed Apr 18, 2007 12:38 am

High, Hot, Short & Steep

Here's another short film.
Landing on cleared stip patches of jungle mtns. w/ steep rwys.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHyHe1vFCEk
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Wed Apr 18, 2007 2:29 pm

That reminds me of Air America. That PC-6 is so cool.
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Wed Apr 18, 2007 3:22 pm

zane wrote:That reminds me of Air America. That PC-6 is so cool.


That's because one of the strips in the video IS one they used!

"We're going to land THERE???!!!!!
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Thu Apr 19, 2007 2:12 pm

Air America operated in New Guinea??

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Thu Apr 19, 2007 7:19 pm

No, the film crew did. (I think?) It sure looked to me just like one of the shots in the film where Robert Downey Jr. has a fit in the Helio Stallion on his first mission.

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Fri Apr 20, 2007 5:02 pm

Rocky,

Oh, the FILM, not the actual company. That wasn't a Stallion, by the way, it was a Pilatus Turbo Porter. The Company did use some Stallions, in fact they were the only customers who bought the things. THey also used Porters, though.

I have no idea where the film was made, but the Company never worked in New Guinea, to my knowledge. Course, if they'd told me, they'd have had to have whacked me....

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