The glider scenes for the Thomas Crown affair were shot in three locations, and if you count the sound stage, four. The flying scenes used in the film where all shot in Elmira NY at Harris Hill, except for the one scene after the Pawnee takes off and you see the tow going along a tree lined ridge. This snippit was filmed at Karl Streidecks private field in Julian PA( on the ridge directly above Keystone Soaring. The scene in the cow field after they landed was somewhere, I don't remember, in eastern upstate NY. I was lucky enough to be at Harris Hill when they did some of the shooting. they were there for a week.I got to see Tom put his Duo through some pretty amazing maneuvers, unfortunatly the best ones didn't make the cut.Loop, incredible chandelles, etc.They were at Keystone at least a week also. All for 3 1/2 minutes of film. And I thought we wasted a lot of video filming the Elmira event! Subsiquent to that at the Sport Class Nationals,held imediatly after the Elmira Aerotow event,I got ot see Heinz Weissenbueller put another Duo to the extreme test. He did a high G "rim the bowl" maneuver around the Glider field, which in case of the Duo Discus amounted to a screaming howling knife edge circle. Had to be there....4-600 feet up 100+ MPH. John Derstine -----Original Message----- From: Brian Chan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 1999 1:20 PM To: soaring Subject: Re: [RCSE] Dou-Discus in Thomas Crown Affair Movie >Good question. I was just a tKeystone Gliderport where they filmed it, like I >said. It was there. It even had "Duo Discus" stenciled under the cockpit. I >saw one guy fly it. I didn't take notice to the reg number, though. Or even >if it had one. > >-NCW After two e:mail to Thomas Knauff here is what I got from him, like pulling teeth, man of few words....... > Tom, > > I have one of the radio control model of the Duo Discus (5.3m). What is > the Reg number of that plane in the movie? N96KG > > Thanks for your help. And is the number on the bottom of the fin instead of > on the mid fuselage like the prototype D-8111? > Yes -- Thomas Knauff Schempp-Hirth Sailplanes Knauff & Grove Soaring Supplies 3523 South Eagle Valley Road Julian, Pa 16844 http://www.glider.com/knauff/ ------------------------------------------------------------------ * Brian Chan, AFDD Instrumentation Group * MS-215-2, US Army, Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000 * 650-604-0389, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------------------------------------- RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
