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Spook, Good flick. In 1945-46 I was stationed at the Naval Air Station at Santa Ana Ca. and flew over the (Spruce Goose) several times each week. It was interesting to watch it take shape. I never did get to see it close up though. Georgia Trehey wrote: >----[Please read http://ercoupers.com/disclaimer.htm before following any advice in this forum.]---- > > >Hi Folks, > >I went to see "The Aviator" this weekend. Personally, >I thought the film was very good, overall. I heard >that Scorcese wanted the flying scenes to be as >realistic as possible so he had 3 large scale, flying >model aircraft built. I was most anxious to see them, >especially the H-1, Hughes racer. > >I was fortunate enough to meet the builder/pilot of >the H-1 replica, Jim Wright, at his home airport of >Cottage Grove, OR - thanks to my friend and Ercoupe >booster, the late Bob Saville. > >The film makers' intentions were to use shots of the >relica H-1 in the film, but as you probably all know, >sadly, Jim Wright crashed and died in his H-1 on the >trip back from Oshkosh in '03. > >Anyway, here is the website of the company that >produced the very impressive models: >http://www.aerotelemetry.com/ > > >And here is the website about Jim Wright's H-1 >replica. Lots of great photos and text about building >it. > >http://www.wrightools.com/hughes/ > >Cheers, >Spook > > > > > >__________________________________ >Do you Yahoo!? >Yahoo! Sports - Sign up for Fantasy Baseball. >http://baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/ >========================================================================= ===== >To leave this forum go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm >Search the archives on http://escribe.com/aviation/coupers/ > > > > > > ========================================================================== ==== To leave this forum go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm Search the archives on http://escribe.com/aviation/coupers/
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