Yes, but were you aware that their depiction of the cockpit and equipment was so spot-on that the USAF was convinced someone had leaked TS material to them?
"In the early 60s, the B-52 was cutting-edge technology. Access to it was a matter of national security. The Pentagon refused to lend any support to the film after they read the script. Set designers reconstructed the B-52 bomber's cockpit from a single photograph that appeared in a British flying magazine. When some American Air Force personnel were invited to view the movie's B52 cockpit, they said it was a perfect copy.Stanley Kubrick feared that Ken Adam's production design team had used illegal methods and could be investigated by the FBI." Dan On Sep 8, 2013, at 6:49 PM, WILTON wrote: > Yep, Slim (T. J.) did mention the special items, didn't he? > > No such inventory would ever have occurred in flight on a real such mission. > Example of writer trying to insert another joke. > > BTW, y'all do realize, don't you that most (almost ALL) of the stuff in that > movie was BS from somebody's imagination. For example, pilot never read any > checklist for bombing or its prep and sure as Hell wouldn't have gone into > the bomb bay for ANYTHING - if anybody did, it would have been the navigator > or radar-navigator/bombardier. All of the in flight dialog was very > stilted, imaginary BS - not like the real world at all. > > Wilton > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
