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Old 19th Jan 2005, 19:55
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Atcham Tower
 
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The Aviator

A rather good film - I'm surprised nobody has commented on it yet. The computerised flying boat and the XF-11 are amazingly realistic. EXCEPT that when the Spruce Goose lifts off, there is no water pouring off the hull. Perhaps the graphics were too difficult - if not, somebody boobed! In the film, Hughes refers to it as the Hercules, a name he is said to have hated. The film's chronology is a bit adrift; it seems to jump back and forth a few years. Super G Connies in 1947 and one or two other anomalies. Hughes was a brilliant aeronautical engineer, a fact that seems to have been overlooked over the years, with media attention focussing on his sad end.
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