The mighty Buff
12-27-2009, 01:46 PM
#4
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Mar 2008
Position: FAA 'Flight Check'
Posts: 13,837
Originally Posted by arby
We used to fly low and fast in that monster, now it's all launch from a distance (which is better, just not as cool).
JDAM/JSOW makes me YAWN!
USMCFLYR
12-27-2009, 07:31 PM
#7
Working Class Dog
Joined APC: Jan 2007
Position: Spares Pusher
Posts: 1,668
"Survival kit contents check. In them you'll find: one forty-five caliber automatic; two boxes of ammunition; four days' concentrated emergency rations; one drug issue containing antibiotics, morphine, vitamin pills, pep pills, sleeping pills, tranquilizer pills; one miniature combination Russian phrase book and Bible; one hundred dollars in rubles; one hundred dollars in gold; nine packs of chewing gum; one issue of prophylactics; three lipsticks; three pair of nylon stockings. Shoot, a fella' could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff."
12-28-2009, 04:34 AM
#8
Line Holder
Joined APC: Jan 2009
Position: CFI/CFII/MEI
Posts: 73
Did you know that the original line was "Shoot, a fella could have a pretty good weekend in DALLAS with all that stuff"? They changed it to "Vegas" because JFK had just gotten shot, and they didn't want to remind people of it. If you watch his lips, he is clearly saying "Dallas" but it was dubbed "Vegas" afterward.
12-28-2009, 05:17 AM
#9
No one's home
Joined APC: Aug 2006
Posts: 1,091
Originally Posted by mcis987
Did you know that the original line was "Shoot, a fella could have a pretty good weekend in DALLAS with all that stuff"? They changed it to "Vegas" because JFK had just gotten shot, and they didn't want to remind people of it. If you watch his lips, he is clearly saying "Dallas" but it was dubbed "Vegas" afterward.
And Sellars was originally planned to play the role of Major Kong but a broken leg prevented it.
FWIW, the USAF was of no help making the film but once it opened they were all over the Kibrick and crew wanting to know how they got so much fairly accurate.
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