It would seem that even a “Fender-Bender” won’t stop Bunz – though the sheer enormity of their project might…
These past couple of pages were inspired by an experience recounted in Ernest K. Gann’s book, “Fate is the Hunter” About his career as an airline and military transport pilot during the1930s & ’40s… On his first flight to Greenland, he had to fly under the overcast, up one of three identical looking fjords – the correct one lead to Bluie West One, an airstrip carved out of a glacial valley cul-de-sac, the other two fjords terminated in rock walls… In the mist they got too far into one of the 3 fjords to turn around before they realized that it’s walls were closing in on them! Fortunately for Gann and his crew, it turned out to be the correct fjord… B&K have slightly better odds, as their saucer can hover and go straight up – something that the DC3 loaded with steel antenna tower parts, that Gann was flying was incapable of doing…
Well Gann’s book, his was published in 1961… Looking it up on Wikipedia, I see that there is a 20th Century Fox movie with the same title from ’64 that claims to be based upon Ernest K. Gann’s book, though from the movie plot description it seems that they used little more than the title…
Two chapters from the original book, Gann had earlier published as separate books, “Island in the Sky” and “The High and the Mighty”, both also became John Wayne movies… Alfalfa Switzer, oddly enough was a friend of Wayne’s (according to Tommy Bond, who played Butch in the Rascals flix) and Alfalfa had small parts in both movies as a copilot…
Note: “Island in the Sky: was based on a true event – the search for a downed plane (a Consolidated C-87) that had gone down, with a load of injured servicemen somewhere in Labrador in the middle of winter, when it was largely unmapped territory, complicated by a as yet, undiscovered huge iron ore deposit causing the search plane’s compasses to go wonky…
“The High and the Mighty” is fiction, loosely based on a true event, but with a lot of cockpit drama and such added to make it Hollywood…
Other parts of the book could also make interesting movies – Like flying the “Hump” or how Gann came within a cat’s whisker of going down in history as the man who destroyed the Taj Mahal…
With a gigantic ice cube tray, each cube 2 miles on an edge.
That’s about 85,000 cubes of ice.
85000*8 = 680,000 cubic miles of icy treats.
How many icy treats from 8 cubic miles of ice per frozen cube?
It would seem that even a “Fender-Bender” won’t stop Bunz – though the sheer enormity of their project might…
These past couple of pages were inspired by an experience recounted in Ernest K. Gann’s book, “Fate is the Hunter” About his career as an airline and military transport pilot during the1930s & ’40s… On his first flight to Greenland, he had to fly under the overcast, up one of three identical looking fjords – the correct one lead to Bluie West One, an airstrip carved out of a glacial valley cul-de-sac, the other two fjords terminated in rock walls… In the mist they got too far into one of the 3 fjords to turn around before they realized that it’s walls were closing in on them! Fortunately for Gann and his crew, it turned out to be the correct fjord… B&K have slightly better odds, as their saucer can hover and go straight up – something that the DC3 loaded with steel antenna tower parts, that Gann was flying was incapable of doing…
Never heard of the book, it’s good then?
I thought “Fate is the Hunter ” was about an airline crash that they found out shouldn’t have happened.
Well Gann’s book, his was published in 1961… Looking it up on Wikipedia, I see that there is a 20th Century Fox movie with the same title from ’64 that claims to be based upon Ernest K. Gann’s book, though from the movie plot description it seems that they used little more than the title…
Two chapters from the original book, Gann had earlier published as separate books, “Island in the Sky” and “The High and the Mighty”, both also became John Wayne movies… Alfalfa Switzer, oddly enough was a friend of Wayne’s (according to Tommy Bond, who played Butch in the Rascals flix) and Alfalfa had small parts in both movies as a copilot…
Note: “Island in the Sky: was based on a true event – the search for a downed plane (a Consolidated C-87) that had gone down, with a load of injured servicemen somewhere in Labrador in the middle of winter, when it was largely unmapped territory, complicated by a as yet, undiscovered huge iron ore deposit causing the search plane’s compasses to go wonky…
“The High and the Mighty” is fiction, loosely based on a true event, but with a lot of cockpit drama and such added to make it Hollywood…
Other parts of the book could also make interesting movies – Like flying the “Hump” or how Gann came within a cat’s whisker of going down in history as the man who destroyed the Taj Mahal…
With a gigantic ice cube tray, each cube 2 miles on an edge.
That’s about 85,000 cubes of ice.
85000*8 = 680,000 cubic miles of icy treats.
How many icy treats from 8 cubic miles of ice per frozen cube?
Hooboy, I love how Bunz can go from sheer, gibbering hysteria to smug, arrogant in-charge-of-it-all at a moment’s notice… Real OCS material, that gal…