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05-03-2007, 02:57 PM
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| SFM Nugget  Join Date: May 2006 Location: Out there, bombarded by cosmic rays
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| A Lonely Sky A short film made by Nick Ryan about test pilots in the late 40s. The special effects are pretty amazing. A Lonely Sky     |
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05-03-2007, 03:08 PM
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| Space Cadet   Realname: B.J. Join Date: May 2006 Location: Huntsville, AL Age: 34
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| So is this fiction, but based on real events? (Don't have the time or bandwidth to watch to movie right now.) I'm asking because I'm pretty sure the X-1 always had "Glamorous Glennis" on the right side of the nose, not "Mach One or Bust". |
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05-03-2007, 03:18 PM
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| SFM Nugget Join Date: May 2006 Location: Out there, bombarded by cosmic rays
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05-03-2007, 03:19 PM
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| Project Lead on SFM Film  | ^ I bleived it did but he done fine job on it. |
| “Well, I guess wiping out 2 billion people sort of qualifies as a dick move.  ” - Guerrilla TH&B Project: Fighter 2 | Ships of the Naraka Empire | Ships of the Commonwealth of Solaris | |
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05-03-2007, 03:22 PM
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| SFM Obsessed  Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: On average, The Atlantic technically!
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| Good find those effects are pretty good! Yeah I'm sure the X-1 had Glamorous Glennis on it's nose then on the models built after just a big X-1. |
| "Supposedly Cousteau and his cronies invented the idea of putting walkie-talkies into the helmet. But we made ours with a special rabbit ear on the top so we could pipe in some music". - Steve Zissou | |
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05-03-2007, 06:57 PM
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| SFM Guru  Realname: Thomas Join Date: May 2006 Location: The Sound
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| ‘Glamorous Glennis’ was Chuck Yeager's X-1, named in honor of his wife, and is the one you most often see as it was the one that broke the barrier AND had the pilot live to tell the tail. As Chuck was a fighter jock and had seen European theater action he was of the ilk that named their planes. Previous X-1 pilots were Bell employees and tended to leave the Bell Aerospace insignia alone. The movie is fictional and is, as said, about a pilot trying to come to terms with (metaphorically speaking) mortality over immortality. It really is a cool little story. BTW - it was filmed entirely in New Zealand (very effective use of CG). |
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