AggieMike88
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The original "I don't know it all" of aviation.
[Leonard Nimoy] Highly Illogical
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Mistake Not...
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Actually, what I listened to was interesting. Kind of like Equivel.
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Using flight computers that require batteries and electronic displays is highly illogical.
In the recent documentary "For The Love of Spock", there is footage of Nimoy flying his family around in his new 1971 Cherokee Arrow 200.
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huh. I didn't know Spock was a pilot. That's awesome. My favorite little aviation fact about star trek is that the woman who was in the pilot was a pilot.
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Kirk as well.
https://www.bjtonline.com/business-jet-news/william-shatner
"You’ve done two aviation-related dramas, a 1963 Twilight Zone episode entitled "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" and a 1972 made-for-television movie called The Horror at 37,000 Feet.
See, I gained 17,000 feet in nine years. That’s almost two thousand feet a year. It’s a slow rate of ascent, but listen, as long as you are going up and not down…
The Twilight Zone episode has become something of a cult classic.
They still play it on Thanksgiving. Why has it remained so popular, this 30-minute show about a passenger who thinks he sees this little furry guy sitting on the wing? You really have to suspend disbelief. It taps into that universal thought of “if God intended us to fly we would have wings.” A lot of people getting on an airplane to this day still can’t figure out why it flies."
"When did you start flying privately?
I was playing at the Poinciana Playhouse in Florida and I had always been fascinated by flying. I had my days empty and the airport was very close to my hotel and that is where I soloed. When I did my [instructional] cross-country flight, I flew from Santa Monica to Miami and back in a [two-seat] Cessna 140. I took aerobatics for a while and then did gliders.
I’ve also done paramotoring [powered parachutes]: run like hell with 75 pounds on my back, threw myself into the air and at times crashed to the ground. And there was the image again of that little furry guy on the wing [laughs]. But then I would gain speed and fly. On many occasions, I would fly privately for one reason or another. I’ve been flown around the country for years in quite a few different things. I’m taking helicopter lessons. I’m fascinated by helicopters."
"As if all that weren’t enough to keep an octogenarian busy, he recently took helicopter lessons and has logged seven hours at the controls of a Robinson R22."
https://www.bjtonline.com/business-jet-news/william-shatner
"You’ve done two aviation-related dramas, a 1963 Twilight Zone episode entitled "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" and a 1972 made-for-television movie called The Horror at 37,000 Feet.
See, I gained 17,000 feet in nine years. That’s almost two thousand feet a year. It’s a slow rate of ascent, but listen, as long as you are going up and not down…
The Twilight Zone episode has become something of a cult classic.
They still play it on Thanksgiving. Why has it remained so popular, this 30-minute show about a passenger who thinks he sees this little furry guy sitting on the wing? You really have to suspend disbelief. It taps into that universal thought of “if God intended us to fly we would have wings.” A lot of people getting on an airplane to this day still can’t figure out why it flies."
"When did you start flying privately?
I was playing at the Poinciana Playhouse in Florida and I had always been fascinated by flying. I had my days empty and the airport was very close to my hotel and that is where I soloed. When I did my [instructional] cross-country flight, I flew from Santa Monica to Miami and back in a [two-seat] Cessna 140. I took aerobatics for a while and then did gliders.
I’ve also done paramotoring [powered parachutes]: run like hell with 75 pounds on my back, threw myself into the air and at times crashed to the ground. And there was the image again of that little furry guy on the wing [laughs]. But then I would gain speed and fly. On many occasions, I would fly privately for one reason or another. I’ve been flown around the country for years in quite a few different things. I’m taking helicopter lessons. I’m fascinated by helicopters."
"As if all that weren’t enough to keep an octogenarian busy, he recently took helicopter lessons and has logged seven hours at the controls of a Robinson R22."
Zeldman
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James "Scotty" Doohan was once called the craziest pilot in the Canadian Air Force. Before he was in the AF he was an infantry officer. He was shot 6 times on D Day by friendly fire.
http://www.todayifoundout.com/index...tty-on-star-trek-was-shot-six-times-on-d-day/
http://www.todayifoundout.com/index...tty-on-star-trek-was-shot-six-times-on-d-day/
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Gene Roddenberry, odd duck though he was, was a USAAF B-17 pilot and flew 89 combat missions during the war. Postwar he flew for Pan American.
One of the very first editions of Private Pilot magazine carried an article called "Captain Kirk and the Cardinal," featuring Bill Shatner. It was a pilot-report-type article on the new 1969 C-177A Cardinal, through the eyes of Shatner, then a low-time private pilot.
One of the very first editions of Private Pilot magazine carried an article called "Captain Kirk and the Cardinal," featuring Bill Shatner. It was a pilot-report-type article on the new 1969 C-177A Cardinal, through the eyes of Shatner, then a low-time private pilot.
