Harrison Ford: I have 8 planes, 1 woman
By Ruben V. Nepales
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 16:53:00 03/07/2010
Filed Under: Celebrities, Cinema, Entertainment (general), planes
LOS ANGELES – Actor-pilot Harrison Ford, asked in our recent interview about how many planes he has, answered with his trademark lopsided grin: “I have one woman but I have eight aeroplanes. The planes have different purposes and the skills required to fly them are different in each case. I’ve always been interested in this continual process of learning and perfecting skills.”
Harrison, who can be terse at interviews, was in a good mood in this chat
. When a colleague prefaced his question with, “You play a cranky scientist in ‘Extraordinary Measures’ and a cranky TV news anchorman in ‘Morning Glory,’” the actor with the gruff reputation playfully interrupted and quipped to laughter, “Yeah, what about it? Are you getting to something? What’s your point?”
Stone Mountain (Gwinnett County) Hamfest 2024
I haven't been to a hamfest in probably 10 years. They are still happening. They certainly are not as big as they were back in the 80s and 90s. But they still happen. An ever-reducing fraction of the expereince is still pulling from state of the art communications technologies. Otherwise they are celebrations in the antique, classic and nostalgic. It's fun to have conversations with folks that understand the specifics of very eosteric (compared to the general population) of radio, electronics and technology. I saw one product that I wrote the manual for many years ago (The MDS new "P" Model). Angie decided to help out. We left the house incredibly early with the truck that was loaded up the night before. How early was it you might ask? Well, we went to Waffle House for Breakfast on the way to set up and the waitress told us to have a nice night when we left. I sold a few items, and I couldn't help but buy a few things. (Military Antenna base for the Humvee,
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