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hongkongluna

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Yeah I looked there. Only black and white really and there isn't a full plane view. [:/]



Tell you what...Get the DVD, play it on your computer, stop at the frame you'd like and do a little thing called 'screen capture'. :)

ltdiver

Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon

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The DVD is sitting in my pc right now. The jpegs will be too big to post. Is there an attachment sixe limit on the dz.com email system?

"Once we got to the point where twenty/something's needed a place on the corner that changed the oil in their cars we were doomed . . ."
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Man I feel like an Arss! I wrote that meaning that I was just going to use my jedi like googling skills to hunt down a picture. That was not a call for some one to do it for me. Thank you though. I sent you a PM with my email addresses in it, for I cannot make it public the true ID of ~El Josh AKA Ruby:P

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Yes I only have 3 jumps...it's the magic number dude.

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The DVD is sitting in my pc right now. The jpegs will be too big to post. Is there an attachment sixe limit on the dz.com email system?



Thanks! Man thoughs stripes really do make it look fast! :D
~El Josh AKA Ruby
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Yes I only have 3 jumps...it's the magic number dude.

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Thanks for reminding me about this. I hadn't thought about it for quite awhile. Rande and I were talking about filming Fandango one of the last times I saw him before he died. He told me that the producers told him to find a plane to use and he went out and bought a cherry late model used 182 and brought it home (Pope Valley?) to prep for the film. As he was wheeling it into the paint shop. a local pilot inquired about buying it. After the paint and interior were done, the same pilot told asked him if he was really stupid enough to fly that thing! After the filming was finished they let Rande keep the plane and he said for months afterward he had almost round the clock free security from the local sherif's office. They were positive it had to be used for flying dope and staked it out to catch the smugglers!
As a footnote, I never realized until the 1981(?) Nationals when Rande and I were working with a small independant film crew what an incredible pilot he was. We were shooting exit shots of the teams from the DC-3's and one of our guys was in a 182 that Rande was flying in formation. He parked that Cessna's right main gear about four feet above and a foot over the left wingtip of the 3 and it looked like it was welded there! I think he said later when we were talking about it that he had been an F-4 instructor in the USAF. Who knew? At any rate, he was a great friend and is greatly missed to this day.

Bill Sutton

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On closer review of the stills from an earlier post, it does appear to be a 182. I originally remember Rande saying it was a 172 (which I thought a little strange at the time) and looking at the stills, the spinner appeared to be for a fixed-pitch prop. When I looked again, I can see the prop control on the instrument panel and cowl flaps in one of the head-on shots. I stand corrected. Guess I've lost more brain cells than I thought since then.

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Right you are... Rande was one hell of a pilot & photographer. While in the Air Force he instructed students in T-38's out of arizona. The 182 in question (73R) went to our dad after Rande passed, and is now owned by our uncle (Sam). After our dad died in '89, our uncle flew the 182 (still referred to as "Picasso") while myself and Becky Livingston (now Davies) leaped from 13,5 for the aerial burial "ash" dive over the high desert in So Cal. Hard to believe its been 23 years since Randes' passing, and you're right he's still greatly missed to this day. John Deluca

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Watched it all the way thru for the first time last night. (Had never seen about half the scenes).
" . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

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