To: Darksheare
This is all I can find. :-(
High Road to China (Warner 1983, 105m) D: Brian Hutton. Tom Sellick = O'Malley, Bess Armstrong = Eve, Jack Weston = Struts, Wilford Brimley = Bradley Tozer, Robert Morley = Bentik. Screenplay: Jon Cleary, S Lee Pogostin. A pilot is saddled with a spoiled industrialist's daughter on a search for her missing father through Asia that eventually involves them in a struggle against a Chinese warlord. Maltin review: "Low road to escapism, with Selleck (in his first starring feature) as a boozy ex-WW1 aerial ace hired by heiress Armstrong to find her father. Strictly mediocre, with substandard action scenes and the flattest dialogue this side of the Great Wall."
AIRCRAFT: Stampe, DH Tiger Moth.
70 posted on
03/01/2004 9:49:35 AM PST by
SAMWolf
(I just blew $5000 on a reincarnation seminar. I figured, hey, you only live once.)
To: SAMWolf
Weird.
72 posted on
03/01/2004 10:01:50 AM PST by
Darksheare
(Fortune for today: Magicians' flash powder isn't an effective nasal decongestant)
To: SAMWolf; Darksheare
"While on the subject of vintage European biplanes we must mention the Belgian Stampe. Throughout the 1940s and 50s, this two-place, all wood-trainer won the hearts of the entire continent and even today the center of a dedicated aerobatic competition, the Coupe D'Anjou, a contest in France for Stampes only. Soft, docile, and easy to fly, the Stampe is an excellent choice for an entry level acrobatic airplane. If you want to see some Stampe flying, rent a copy of the film
High Road to China, in which two Stamps masquerading as WWI Fighters, flit all over the Hindu Kush. They were flown in the film by Eric Miller and David Perrin (who lost his life during filming in a liaison helicopter accident)."
Link to plane pics
Another Link to Stampe
82 posted on
03/01/2004 10:29:44 AM PST by
snippy_about_it
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