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  1. Jon Polito
  2. Always notice the English ones..... Minnie Driver
  3. Morgan Freeman was in that.......
  4. Thread fucked by The Mook...
  5. You can look up the moving tail, also called a stabilator.Both the USA and Britain were involved in a race to be the first supersonic flight... and both reached an impass of excessive vibration, The P51 demonstrated this and the term compressibility phenomena was born. The swept back leading edge wing was a key development, which I believe was British. The British lost the taste for the supersonic race and passed a lot of data to the USA, this was caused by the death of Geoffrey de Havilland , September 1946. The first (singular) supersonic flight was indeed Chuck.... I did not claim the Comet was the best, just the first, and after the disasters of the Comet, anything would come along and look good. But the 707 had the advantage of being pre-warned of the design flaws and unforseen issues from the Comet.
  6. Robert Redford, of course.
  7. The world's first supersonic passenger plane.Also the invention that allowed aircraft to go supersonic, the all moving tail. The worlds first jet aircraft..... The worlds firt jet passenger aircraft (De Havilland Comet).... the subsequent issue of metal fatigue was researched and surely imprived future designs. The worlds first rocket powered passenger aircraft... Ente, Germany. It seems strange to need to argue about this as at the time the USA was in infancy.
  8. Kim Basinger.
  9. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
  10. Patriot Games
  11. Falling Down
  12. I guess you are joking but of course it is a combustion turbine (ala Mr Whittle's wonderful invention). Not a regular diesel engine with a turbo(charger) like my truck.
  13. Apocalypse Now
  14. Well if you put the two adjectives in a diffeerent order to match the carriers yes. SQ are not particularly cheap.....
  15. Lira Angel
  16. The Fly
  17. Naw, not that one...The rather strange and annoying.... Glengarry Glen Ross
  18. Maybe 'Wilford'...? The China Syndrome (only 30 yo )
  19. Well, the way that 'problem' is handled is for the company to offer apprenticeships, train them straight from school. Mind you if you intend outsourcing to Haiti, not much point.
  20. Lots of famous faces there..... but an old one.. Alan King
  21. James Woods
  22. James Belushi
  23. Wasn't it 'Another 48 hours' ? Just kidding... no sequels...?Eddie Murphy
  24. Nick Nolte (where did he go?)
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