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Audie Murphy
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Keenan Wynn
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No such person. The film had a fake cast list. The only two actors in the movie were Caine and Olivier. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleuth_(1972_film)
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"Sleuth"
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"7 Faces of Dr. Lao"
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As I, and others, have said before, the number of seats, their size and how far apart they are, is up to the airline. Some airlines will stuff as many seats in the cabin as possible and the public be damned. The latest trend has been to make the bathrooms so small many people find them almost impossible to use. Why? So the airline can squeeze in a another row of seats. Some airlines do the interiors themselves and others have Airbus or Boeing do it. Still others have it done by a third party. Boeing has a "showroom" where the customer can pick out the type and brand of seats, the galleys (kitchens), heads (bathrooms), etc. ,etc., etc. I've had many very comfortable flights on the 747 and I've had two very unpleasant flights both on JAL 747s. Two of the most comfortable flights that come to mind were both on Korean Air 777-200ERs.
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I've read somewhere "they" came up with a new lithium/aluminum alloy that has the same strength to weight ratio as composites. So, the fuselage of the new 777s will be "usual" metal frame and skin, but the wings will be composites. They can make shapes with the composites that just can't be done with metals, supposedly. Boeing has constructed a huge building in Everett, WA (where they make everything but the 737) just to make composite wings. The building is gigantic, so I would think they have plans to use it to make more than 777 wings. Perhaps, bring the 787 wing manufacturing home from Japan? In the aviation news yesterday was the rumor that Airbus will announce, sometime in the next couple of weeks, they will stop producing the A380. The rumor was from a "reputable" source so it has been given some credit.
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A point of order. In message #1334 the movie "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" was the response to the actor named in the previous message, John Carradine who appeared in the 1960 version of the film. In message #1335, the response to "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" was Mickey Rooney who appeared in the 1939 version of the film. So, is that response correct under the rules?
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"Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb"
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"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"
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Clifton James
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Anyone else having problems with Firefox?
Samsonite replied to Butch's topic in Technical problems or questions.
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Anyone else having problems with Firefox?
Samsonite replied to Butch's topic in Technical problems or questions.
From an article in The New York Post, -
"Mars Attacks!"
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"Back to The Future"
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Anyone else having problems with Firefox?
Samsonite replied to Butch's topic in Technical problems or questions.
Opera in name only. The company split apart several years ago and one of the founders went on his own and started Vivaldi with the goal of making it as similar to the original Opera as possible. Unfortunately, both Vivaldi and the "new" Opera are chrome clones, i.e., they are based on google's development engine known as chromium. The "new" Opera eventually sold itself to some Chinese outfit. I'll never use it again and I don't trust Vivaldi as I don't trust anything associated with Google. Edit in: Just logged on with Firefox. No problem. Looks better in Firefox than it did in Vivaldi. -
Elizabeth McGovern
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IIRC, the Mississippi Queen was the bar used in the movie, "The Deer Hunter". The best looking girls I've met in BBK have all, without exception, worked in bars on Patpong.
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"The Conversation"
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"The Professional"
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Cargo planes fly for 30 to 40+ years, so brace yourself, the 747 will out live you. :)
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As long as their are buyers. It is the only large cargo plane in production. Right now the777F, based on the 777-200LR, is very popular, but it doesn't have a nose door, so, as I said, cargo companies will continue to buy the 747-8F.
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You may have overlooked John Quade, who made at least thirty flims.
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For both the Boeing 747-8 and the Airbus 380 to survive as passenger planes there would have to be a massive increase in the number of people wanting to fly. When the 747 was the only and the biggest jumbo and there was nothing or very little in between it and the smaller aircraft, the airlines were able to fill a 747. With the improvements in engine fuel economy and reliability, composites and lighter weight aluminum alloys, the twin engine airliners cost less to operate (follow the money) and have taken over the passenger market. IIRC, one of the two new 777s, the 777-9, will almost be as long as the 747. The passenger versions of the 747 will fade from service as will the A-380, but as the design of the 380 does not lend itself well to a cargo configuration, it may completely, eventually, be a memory. Things change, perhaps, in the future someone will consider a 380 cargo conversion, but unlikely, as it would be extremely expensive...... But, as I said, things change....
