The one where an engineer had the goods on a design defect responsible for a series of airline crashes, but couldn't get anyone to believe him?

It's been years since I saw it, but I remember that he was going somewhere to present his evidence, and had to get on that model plane to get there. He told one of the stews (this was before they invented "flight attendants") that if there was trouble, she should get to the rear of the plane because it would be safer. And, shore 'nuff, the thang crashed.

It was sort of a Cassandra for the 1950s, but seems somewhat applicable to our current times.

-- Ron Schwarz (rs@clubvb.com.delete.this), December 01, 1999

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My favorite was the Twilight Zone episode where the poor guy saw a yetti type of thing on the wing of the airplane and couldn't get anyone to believe him .....

-- BigDog (BigDog@duffer.com), December 01, 1999.

That "guy" in the Twilight Zone episode was William Shatner, BTW....

-- Dennis (djolson@cherco.net), December 01, 1999.

Yup, that was WS. I *think* it was Cary Grant in the one I can't remember.

Another good "old y2k movie" is Flight of the Phoenix.

-- Ron Schwarz (rs@clubvb.com.delete.this), December 01, 1999.

Jimmy Stewart & Glennis Johns - "No Highway in the Sky"

S.O.B.

-- sweetolebob (buffgun@hotmail.com), December 01, 1999.

Thanks!

-- Ron Schwarz (rs@clubvb.com.delete.this), December 01, 1999.

Anyone see the made for TV movie where a guy invents a means to make cheap energy and he is manipulated and killed?

-- Mara (MaraWayne@aol.com), December 01, 1999.

Mara: Yes, I saw it. I don't remember the name of the show. (At least, I think it was the one to which you refer) He had a chemical in a tablet that made internal combustion engines run on water.

-- Liz Pavek (lizpavek@hotmail.com), December 01, 1999.

Hi Ron,

(feels funny typing that!) Yes, the film was No Highway in the Sky, but what you might not know is that it was based, quite accurately, on the book "No Highway" (forget "the in the Sky" bit) by the well known author Neville Shute, who also wrote the book "On the Beach", which is also kind of appropriate for the times.

Shute was a former Aeronautical Engineer and used his inside knowledge of the industry in many of his books.

You should have no difficulty obtaining a copy, check out Amazon maybe?

RonD

-- Ron Davis (rdavis@ozemail.com.au), December 02, 1999.

GO to the video store and rent "Inferno" It was a made for TV movie that came out this year about a CME (or solar flare) nailing the earth....this movie makes the Y2K movie look pathetic...it was actually quite good. Another "classis" is "the Day After". I was a kid when this movie came out about nuclear war in America, and I had nightmares for years.

-- C. Hill (pinionsmachine@hotmail.com), December 02, 1999.

From: Y2K, ` la Carte by Dancr (pic), near Monterey, California

The main thing that I remember about the movie The Day After is that my husband was working in Minneapolis, for the Pillsbury Company, at the time. We groaned about the horrible placement for an ad that recommended using Crescent Rolls to make pigs-in-a-blanket. They cut from the most dramatic moment of the movie, in which blast victims were lying around in smouldering rubble with their skin sliding off their bones to the Dough Boy's cheery voice hawking HOTTTTTDOGGGGsss!

-- Dancr (addy.available@my.webpage), December 02, 1999.