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The Boeing XB-70 LOL
Posted by GMorrison on Wednesday, January 20, 2016 12:29 PM

Saw a tv ad this morning for Boeing. Lots of neat aircraft vid clips, including the XB-70 taking off. Now, Boeing bought North American in 1996... forty years after losing the competition for the design.

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Posted by Sprue-ce Goose on Wednesday, January 20, 2016 12:35 PM

Did the ad include promotion for a Chinese mainland production line? 

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Posted by Devil Dawg on Wednesday, January 20, 2016 2:23 PM

I do believe this would be a good example of "fate".

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Posted by Sprue-ce Goose on Wednesday, January 20, 2016 8:05 PM

Yes.......One of Jack Lemmon's more amusing rolesWink

http://fanpix.famousfix.com/pictures/prof-fate/p16606992

 

 

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Posted by Devil Dawg on Wednesday, January 20, 2016 10:21 PM

Ahhhh, yes. One of my all-time favorite movies - "The Great Race". Peter Falk was a hoot in that one, too, as well as Tony Curtiss. 

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Posted by Don Stauffer on Thursday, January 21, 2016 9:02 AM

GMorrison

Saw a tv ad this morning for Boeing. Lots of neat aircraft vid clips, including the XB-70 taking off. Now, Boeing bought North American in 1996... forty years after losing the competition for the design.

 

I worked for three aerospace companies during my career.  Two ended up getting subsumed by Boeing (NA and MDC).  Third, Honeywell, was acquired by Allied Signal though it kept the Honeywell name as being better known.  I seem to be a curse to any company :-(

I loved the XB-70, did a scratch model before any kit available.

Don Stauffer in Minnesota

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Posted by TomZ on Friday, January 22, 2016 6:26 PM

Devil Dawg

Ahhhh, yes. One of my all-time favorite movies - "The Great Race". Peter Falk was a hoot in that one, too, as well as Tony Curtiss. 

 

As a matter of fact, there actually was such a race run in 1908, and Tony Curtis' car was a pretty good match for the winning Thomas Flyer. No picture survives of Professor Fate's automobile.

 

 

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Posted by GMorrison on Friday, January 22, 2016 6:41 PM

I have never seen it, and I'm thinkin' it may stay that way. Although I do remember the part where Prof. Fate shoots the Eiffel Tower.

 

How did they do that?

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Posted by Sprue-ce Goose on Friday, January 22, 2016 7:00 PM

TomZ

 

 
Devil Dawg

Ahhhh, yes. One of my all-time favorite movies - "The Great Race". Peter Falk was a hoot in that one, too, as well as Tony Curtiss. 

 

 

 

As a matter of fact, there actually was such a race run in 1908, and Tony Curtis' car was a pretty good match for the winning Thomas Flyer. No picture survives of Professor Fate's automobile.

The Hannibal 8 from the movie is , apparently, a popular model with scratch builders:

http://www.fatemodelworks.com/models.php

 "Push the button, Max !" 

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