"Tex Houston" wrote:
"Bill Silvey" wrote in message

Hey, that was in Flight of the Phoenix, wasn't it?

I have no idea which they used in the movie. I saw it when it first came
out and never since.

It was a C-119. At the Univ. of South Florida, my Management 101
professor showed "Flight of the Phoenix" to the class to illustrate
various management styles. Interestingly enough, he said that
Jimmy Stewart (who played the Capt. of the ship) was a poor
manager yet the alcoholic co-pilot (Richard Attenborough) exhibited
the "proper" method to manage people! As the prof explained it,
Attenborough was the one who was responsible for group cohesiveness
(despite his boozing) while Stewart did all the wrong things by acting
like a self-centered, tempermental blowhard. Apparently CRM was
foreign concept to Stewart, huh? )