From: someone@anywheret.net   
      
   "JimD"  wrote in message news:2017041722301852324-email@nowherecom...   
      
   > Yep.  Need to know how that stuff works.   
      
   Perhaps, but it seems you'd first have to like that particular genre/style   
   )   
      
   > That may never be public. Who knows.  It doesn't matter really. It's his   
   > life and music that matter.   
      
   But at least when there's a cause, it's a little less painful to bear than   
   if it's a mystery and remains such.   
      
   > Yes, in the real story was a b24.   
      
   Several years ago, I actually got the  privilege of seeing a restored one   
   flying around the Palwaukee Airport in the town of Wheeling about an hour   
   away from Chicago - quite a sight, and sound to behold!   
      
   > I wonder if that plane in the movie was a prop, or moved, or if it just   
   > happened to be there and so that's where they filmed the movie ?   
      
   It's difficult to imagine it being a prop, probably a hulk of one laying   
   round an airplane boneyard and who knows, maybe even filmed where it was   
   dumped or towed just far away from the rest of the 'corpses' to make it look   
   natural.   
      
   > In any case, it was a good movie. Years ago I had the chance to sit in the   
   > copilot seat of a working B25. Very small on the inside. Ha, I could   
   > easily reach out and touch each inside wall with my palms.   
      
   You're soooo lucky! If I ever got that chance, I'd want to get to fly it too   
   )   
   And the B-25 is definitely not a large plane at all - it's almost a "heavy   
   fighter" class plane. I saw one at an air show and could it maneuver and   
   when the pilot poured on the power, the 2 P-51s that were flying with it   
   quickly fell behind and really had to pour it on too just to keep up, quite   
   a sight.   
      
   > So less than about 5 feet wide, as I remember. The bomb bay was like a   
   > upside down trash container between the wings. To get from the front to   
   > the back of the plane required crawling OVER that, thru a small space   
   > between the top of the bay and the roof of the plane.   
      
   That's pretty common in that type and size of aircraft, similar with the   
   B-26, the He 111, and Pe-2 as well.   
      
   On the other hand, larger planes weren't much better since they were   
   designed to carry bombs and drop them, which meant that the crew had to   
   crawl around things and often had very little space for so-called 'creature   
   conforts'. I recall that the Avro Lancaster bomber's tail gunner was in such   
   a confined space he didn't even have enough room to wear his parachute, so   
   they had a system where he only wore the harness, and if it was necessary to   
   abandon ship, he'd have to back himself out of the rear gun turret into the   
   area forward of that so he could fetch his chute and attach it to the   
   harness he was already wearing.   
      
   That was the basis for the story of a Lancaster tail gunner whose plane was   
   blasted by cannon fire from a German night fighter, requuiring everyone to   
   bail out...only when he got to where his chute was waiting for him, he saw   
   it going up in flames right before his eyes and had to make a decision of   
   jumping out without it and falling 18,000' to his death or staying with the   
   doomed plane and being burned to death - he chose jumping out...and was   
   fortunate to land on some very heavy pine tree growth just before hitting   
   the ground, which broke his fall sufficiently to prevent his going splat, so   
   he lived to tell about it.   
      
   > Also, to get to the front gunner, bomber area meant crawling thru a small   
   > tunnel under the pilots seat. I couldn't fit thru. No way to traverse that   
   > with a parachute.   
      
   The B-17 ball (belly) turret was so small it almost took a midget to fit in   
   it...which is why men of small stature were not discouraged from joining   
   bomber crews, because they'd be sure to get the ball turret.   
   And if that wasn't bad enough, that turret was entirely electrically   
   operated which meant if anything went wrong with power  delivery, he'd   
   basically be stuck in there, and if the plane's landing gear was to severely   
   damaged to lower it, he'd be mangled by the belly landing!   
      
   > One thing I miss about that plane / airshow, was that I could have flown   
   > in it to Pirsburg and back, but didn't.  If I had the opportunity again, I   
   > certainly would.   
      
   WHY didn't you???   
      
   > Movie was loosley based on that story, it seems.  Same sort of thing is   
   > likely what happened to that flight of Avengers that made the Bermuda   
   > triangle famous. The technology was just too primitive back then. Once you   
   > get lost, no one on ground can really guide you.  Then again, there was   
   > that big airliner that disappeared a year or two back. If you belive the   
   > government, they still can't track planes.  If you believe that ...... you   
   > might just be an idiot   
      
   Yeah, from that 'paranormal' crap about the Bermuda Triangle, to something   
   even more silly,j like a so-called 'news' report that claims a plane   
   disappears off radar, and we're supposed to believe it.   
      
   > The Yngwie neck has a whole different feel. Not fast at all.  Just useful   
   > for extreme string bending.   
      
   Don't even have to do that, just apply a little extra pressure downward   
   because the fingerboard is scalloped away ;)   
      
   > Alan didn't do that.  He was about hammer on's, pull offs and chords.   
   > Chords are useless on the Malmsteen neck.   
      
   Jim   
      
   I'm sure it's possible to play chords on a fully scalloped neck - just have   
   to play them remembering there's no fingerboard to press against ;)   
   And I understand that Eddie Van Halen plays with a style called "hammering",   
   where all you do  is tap the string against the fret, usually very rapidly.   
      
   Ouisie   
      
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