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http://www.tmz.com/2015/03/05/harrison-ford-plane-crash-landing-golf-course-santa-monica/
Too much garbage to copy/paste.
BPTactical
03-05-2015, 22:03
Saw this earlier, hope he fares well. He seems to be one of Hollyweirds decent guys.
Cool old trainer he was in, pre WWII PT22?
One thing I was thinking- no fire, no fuel.
Think your right because the PT19 was a biplane. Well at least he was ok sucks about the plane though.
Dang! Glad he was okay. A little troubling in the article saying he has had multiple crashes. That is not good!
lol
"Ford is a longtime aviator -- piloting planes and helicopters -- and has crashed multiple times in the past."
Looks like he isn't any good at piloting anything other than a space ship?
Han Solo lives!
I'd say it was damned lucky that he happened to crash at the golf course where two doctors were playing through at the time.
Another filming delay on the movies i imagine.
NFATrustGuy
03-05-2015, 23:00
I don't know what his politics are like for guns, but he's definitely in favor of the freedoms provided by private aviation. He's been a great supporter and spokesperson for general aviation. The Aircraft Owner's & Pilot's Association (AOPA) is an advocate for private aviation and Mr. Ford has served as an AOPA spokesperson and advocate in meetings with the DC bureaucrats as well as appearing in promotional videos encouraging people to take up flying as a hobby.
Believe it or not, private aviation is under attack by our government in much the same way as gun ownership is. I don't know what the government's end game is, but it sure seems to me that it wants to squelch anything I personally deem as being entertaining or "fun".
IMHO, Mr. Ford is definitely one of the good guys.
Good guy for sure. Chairman at Wings over the Rockies Museum, too, I believe.
He's also big into search and rescue operations, and has rescued a few stranded hikers in his own private helicopter.
http://i.imgur.com/Ody5dIX.jpg
BushMasterBoy
03-05-2015, 23:45
A golf course...I'm surprised Obama wasn't there too.
A golf course...I'm surprised Obama wasn't there too.
Now that's an Obama joke I can get behind! LMAO
Saw this and couldn't pass it up.
http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/00/9b/57/009b5791a2f5ad4b7ab3ee928fd8fcda.jpg
From TMZ, damn good maneuvering to that spot!
http://i.imgur.com/xLJiWEU.jpg
Just managed to avoid the houses. Looks like he made good use of his experience.
BPTactical
03-06-2015, 07:23
Saw this morning where he radioed ATC immediately after taking off that he had engine failure and requested immediate emergency return.
He didn't make it.
Kudos to his aviator skills that he was able to set it down in a relatively safe area.
Speedy recovery to him.
HoneyBadger
03-06-2015, 07:34
One thing I was thinking- no fire, no fuel.
Looking at the wreckage, it looks to me like more of a "unintended landing" than a "crash". This would explain the lack of fire. Lots of small planes have crash landings and don't burst into flames.
Dang! Glad he was okay. A little troubling in the article saying he has had multiple crashes. That is not good!
Not accurate to my understanding. I thought he was in a helicopter that crash landed in a riverbed a few years ago, but was not the PIC.
ETA, just saw your recent post, Bert. That makes perfect sense.
68Charger
03-06-2015, 08:42
"Any landing you can walk away from is a good one" -- Gerald R. Massie, U.S. Army Air Forces photographer. Written in 1944 after the crash-landing of his B17
He rarely kills with a gun in his movies, actually. Most of the time, his characters use a gun as a last resort... Indy uses a whip 99% of the time, and shot a guy exactly once in 4 movies. He shot Greedo, but he was also a smuggler. The rest of the time he uses weapons, it's in self defense against storm troopers. Air Force One, I don't think he actually kills anyone, but they're all terrorists, so who cares. Blade Runner, he only killed murderous robots.
68Charger
03-06-2015, 10:24
He rarely kills with a gun in his movies, actually. Most of the time, his characters use a gun as a last resort... Indy uses a whip 99% of the time, and shot a guy exactly once in 4 movies. He shot Greedo, but he was also a smuggler. The rest of the time he uses weapons, it's in self defense against storm troopers. Air Force One, I don't think he actually kills anyone, but they're all terrorists, so who cares. Blade Runner, he only killed murderous robots.
Does he disrespect or violate people's civil rights in his movies?
I care much more about reality, I don't have to watch movies.
He rarely kills with a gun in his movies, actually. Most of the time, his characters use a gun as a last resort... Indy uses a whip 99% of the time, and shot a guy exactly once in 4 movies. He shot Greedo, but he was also a smuggler. The rest of the time he uses weapons, it's in self defense against storm troopers. Air Force One, I don't think he actually kills anyone, but they're all terrorists, so who cares. Blade Runner, he only killed murderous robots.
Not to get too involved in drift but......:D in "Raiders" he shoots the guy with the sword and the guy driving the truck he thinks has Marion (sp?) in a basket and in AF1 he shoots the guy he's fighting in the onboard office area and strangles the guy he fights down in the cargo area.
Ok back to the man, my brother works in the film industry (sets/special effects) and has met Harrison Ford a number of times. He describes him as one of the most relaxed and laid back people he's every met-a very Zen kind of guy. Easy going and a professional on the set.
As for his flying-well how many of us have had accidents while on the road? The bad part for aviation is that when the engine dies you can't just coast to the side of the road.
Anything a human pilots in the air is mechanical. Shit happens. Doesn't mean he's a bad pilot.
wctriumph
03-06-2015, 14:49
He's not that good of an actor, not much difference from American Graffiti to Ender's Game. But, he was a good enough pilot to just about walk away from a crash landing and not hurt anyone else. I'll give him that.
He likes planes they don't make parts for anymore.
wctriumph
03-06-2015, 14:51
You just had to go and do it. Open the door of debate that every Sci- Fi geek knows so well and will argue for hours pro/con. Harrison Ford was a REPLICANT, not a human in Blade Runner. So, he was shooting his own kind, other replicants. Odds are, he was a Nexus 7. Man, I do love that movie.
I have seen that movie and I can't remember any reference to him being a replicant. In fact this is the first time I have seen that reference anywhere.
.455_Hunter
03-06-2015, 16:46
If Bruce Jenner would have been flying, he would have crashed into the nearest daycare center and still been able to apply lipstick.
BPTactical
03-06-2015, 17:36
If Bruce Jenner would have been flying, he would have crashed into the nearest daycare center and still been able to apply lipstick.
You ate a lot of paint chips as a child, didn't you?
You just had to go and do it. Open the door of debate that every Sci- Fi geek knows so well and will argue for hours pro/con. Harrison Ford was a REPLICANT, not a human in Blade Runner. So, he was shooting his own kind, other replicants. Odds are, he was a Nexus 7. Man, I do love that movie.
But there is only a 6 and a 9!!!
http://www.google.com/nexus/
I have seen that movie and I can't remember any reference to him being a replicant. In fact this is the first time I have seen that reference anywhere.
It's referenced very subtlely as being possible, in the Director's Cut. Both Ridley Scott and Harrison Ford said years later that Deckard is in fact a replicant.
Well thanks for ruining the movie for me. Should I even read the book?
There was a book?? DERP... 😋
"Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" By Phillip K Dick. His stuff is short, but challenging.
I was going to read it, but books are so difficult to get your hands on these days that I just ended up buying a machine gun and a bucket of Corona instead.
"Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" By Phillip K Dick. His stuff is short, but challenging.
I was going to read it, but books are so difficult to get your hands on these days that I just ended up buying a machine gun and a bucket of Corona instead.
Bwhaaa haaa haaa [LOL]
Sadly more and more libraries are downsizing their book collections to make room for computers and meeting spaces. We are still fortunate that libraries will transfer books around between branches and Westminster, Broomfield and Anythink are pretty good about ordering books that they don't already have.
Good book. Better than the movie.
If I could only choose one; a great book, or a gun...it would be a very sad day and a terribly difficult choice for me. I pray that choice never has to be made.
Anything a human pilots in the air is mechanical. Shit happens. Doesn't mean he's a bad pilot.
Well said.
I don't know what his politics are like for guns, but he's definitely in favor of the freedoms provided by private aviation. He's been a great supporter and spokesperson for general aviation. The Aircraft Owner's & Pilot's Association (AOPA) is an advocate for private aviation and Mr. Ford has served as an AOPA spokesperson and advocate in meetings with the DC bureaucrats as well as appearing in promotional videos encouraging people to take up flying as a hobby.
Believe it or not, private aviation is under attack by our government in much the same way as gun ownership is. I don't know what the government's end game is, but it sure seems to me that it wants to squelch anything I personally deem as being entertaining or "fun".
IMHO, Mr. Ford is definitely one of the good guys.
Thank you. Harrison Ford loves aviation. He doesn't parade around like Travolta with his fake 4 stripes ( those are earned on shitty nights in bad weather with people in back). He spends thousands of his own dollars to promote and protect the GA industry. In my book he's solid. He just loves to fly.
Well thanks for ruining the movie for me. Should I even read the book?
Sorry, I don't do spoiler tags for movies older than I am ;)
Again...didn't he do this just a few weeks ago?
Oh...there was a server issue and we lost a few weeks? Everything got set back? He survived and has been healing up and not out crashing more aircraft...ok. :D
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