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April 15. 1988

Boer Dave,

3" Uriting You on a couple of scores. Firstly.

‘1' “11110.! at ”Air Classics“ wants me to do a quick
piece on the new "figpercarrigr" TV series. Am wondering
if 3°“ “d Perhaps a. Navy pilot or two you know can
Put down a few sentences or paragraphs
on your thoughts
on the show - which I might quote in
the article.
Hat's wrong with the series? Whats right - if anything?
fillet stories would you like to see run
on the show?
the article and your cements will be going
to the ABC
Pmducerl - though the show will probably be off the
81! by the time the article comes out—MM,”
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I interviewed actor Richard Jaeckel last Friday
Illa. plays the meter Chief on the show. Jaeckel said
It filo? hid been rushed into production far too quickly.
“if, the for the writers to get a 'feel‘ for
V 'a .. Prim. Jaeckel, by the way, had served in the
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of other
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Charla “‘0 shit?- most saloons and are being filed
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‘zfifllrina Air Films book - some day.
the ght non there are a lot of aviation films in
In “orig. The Vietnam A-6 film "Flight of the
£305.! begins filming this October on an east
ogsst carrier. My sources tell me an entire squadron
O Intruders is being repainted in Vietnam-era markingl
for the production. As yet the film has not been cast.
Iould be interested in knowing what area will double
for Vietnam.
Den't know if you're a Tom Clancy fan or not but
his Hunt For Red October" rapped filming a few weeks
390 at Paramount. Besidesthe sub sequences they also
filled F-14 op's. on the Enterprise. The F-lQ/Yak 33
Pbrger combat sequence and subsequent crash landing
of an P-14 on its carrier are being recreated with
models.
Steven Spielberg just completed the updated remake
of that great old(1943} Spencer Tracy-Van Johnson
sir film “A Guy Named Joe". The new film , completed
about a month ago in Washington State, is titled
'lluays' and in place of the original film's wartime
l-ZSs and P—38s is set today among a group of hereto
m: pilots flying A-Zfis and PBYs. There is also),
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issrieaICIAl operations during the Vietnam war.
Fortress bombers
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2, one of the two B-ITs flown in from
a sing on a tree on tsksotf. Everyone
this increasingly rare bomber was a total
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wu-ltts are also being flown for the
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I an enclosing this
recent copy of ”Air
Clulics'
negatine with my artic
le on the “map Gun"
a a way of introducing filming
myself. I am currently
information for my gathering
third book on the histo
ry of
the aviation film(one of
my earlier books. 'cellu
Ringe' my be seen in loid
the ad on pg. 76).

he tonne Will be titled

"Hollywood's Aerial
Md-Ins". A significant
chapter of this book
will cover aircraft types
which have represenbd
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from the Curtis: P-l
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