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Re: Han Solo shot down by Imperial TIE Fighters, is expected to survive.
« Reply #15 on: March 07, 2015, 12:57:33 PM »
Not sure he wants the attention.

All of Hollywood works off of attention. It's their currency.

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He is rich, sure, which is how he got the airplane in the first place.

Harrison Ford has a small fleet of airplanes, which you need to be rich to keep in the air. The Ryan PT-22 by itself is fairly inexpensive (I found one online for $70K), a middle class person could afford one. It's probably the cheapest plane he owns. People like H.F. buy these for the open cockpit experience and the unique sound of a 5-cyliner radial engine.  :scrap:

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Re: Han Solo shot down by Imperial TIE Fighters, is expected to survive.
« Reply #16 on: March 07, 2015, 04:22:00 PM »
Not sure he wants the attention.

All of Hollywood works off of attention. It's their currency.

Work, sure. Their own time, not necessarily.
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Re: Han Solo shot down by Imperial TIE Fighters, is expected to survive.
« Reply #17 on: March 07, 2015, 05:21:45 PM »
Not sure he wants the attention.

All of Hollywood works off of attention. It's their currency.

Work, sure. Their own time, not necessarily.

Well, it's a double edged sword, isn't it??  Everyone wants attention when they have an upcoming project to be released but you can't shut off the attention like a light switch.

Anyways, getting back to H.F.'s plane. As it turns out, the Ryan PT-22 has some rather nasty slow speed handling characteristics which may have made his crash landing worse than if he had been in a different aircraft type. This video explains the issue from 2:28 to 3:00.


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Re: Han Solo shot down by Imperial TIE Fighters, is expected to survive.
« Reply #18 on: March 07, 2015, 06:23:29 PM »
Not sure he wants the attention.

All of Hollywood works off of attention. It's their currency.

Work, sure. Their own time, not necessarily.

Well, it's a double edged sword, isn't it??  Everyone wants attention when they have an upcoming project to be released but you can't shut off the attention like a light switch.

Anyways, getting back to H.F.'s plane. As it turns out, the Ryan PT-22 has some rather nasty slow speed handling characteristics which may have made his crash landing worse than if he had been in a different aircraft type. This video explains the issue from 2:28 to 3:00.




Have you ever flown in an open cockpit plane?  It looks like fun, back when my kids were small there was a guy at the local small airport that offered rides in a open cockpit biplane but it was too expensive for me at the time.
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Re: Han Solo shot down by Imperial TIE Fighters, is expected to survive.
« Reply #19 on: March 08, 2015, 02:39:52 AM »
Pretty nifty handling, then, to survive the problem.
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Re: Han Solo shot down by Imperial TIE Fighters, is expected to survive.
« Reply #20 on: March 08, 2015, 10:12:46 AM »
Have you ever flown in an open cockpit plane?   It looks like fun, back when my kids were small there was a guy at the local small airport that offered rides in a open cockpit biplane but it was too expensive for me at the time.

No, there's a guy at Oceano airport who offers rides in a Boeing Stearman but it's $200 for a 20 min ride.

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