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From: tneale@aeras.uucp (Tom Neale)
Newsgroups: rec.skydiving
Subject: Re: Fandango
Message-ID: <1991Feb6.202220.138@aeras.uucp>
Date: 6 Feb 91 20:22:20 GMT
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Reply-To: tneale@aeras.UUCP (Tom Neale)
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In article <8289@castle.ed.ac.uk> james@castle.ed.ac.uk (J Gillespie) writes:
>
>Did any other UK types see this film last night?  Or anyone else for
>that matter?

Yes, I've seen Fandango a couple of times in the US.  The skydiving
sequence comes from a short film by the late Rande Deluca.  Rande
filmed some of the great skydiving sequences used in the James Bond
movies (like Moonraker).

The short film is called _Proof_.  I think that _Proof_ is a bit better
than the version in Fandango.  The actor that played the instructor is
the same in both films.  In _Proof_ they used a Cessna 172 that had no
nose wheel.  It was painted in psychedelic style and looked like an
absolute crate.  Rande bought the airplane and turned it into one of
the most beautiful 172s that I've ever seen.

If you ever get the chance to see _Proof_ do it!

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