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To: njslim

Flight of the Phoenix (the original with Jimmy Stewart) is one of my favorite movies. The Stunt Pilot, Paul Mantz, died making that movie.

2 posted on 06/12/2012 10:16:15 AM PDT by JaguarXKE (If my Fluffy had a puppy, it would look like the puppy Obama ate!)

To: JaguarXKE

Yea - in SAHARA by Clive Cussler (one of my favorite authors) the main characters Dirk Pitt/Al Giordano build
a sand yacht from crashed plane

6 posted on 06/12/2012 10:26:56 AM PDT by njslim (St)

To: JaguarXKE

***The Stunt Pilot, Paul Mantz, died making that movie.***

I remember seeing still photos of his homemade(for the movie) plane breaking up.

15 posted on 06/12/2012 10:39:09 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (I LIKE ART! Click my name. See my web page.)

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