unusual flying jobs

C J Campbell wrote:

Unfortunately, he and his camera man were killed in an accident in the
Galapagos in 1999.

Yep. He put a 250 pound Imax camera above and in front of the wing of a Quicksilver
GT500. With the cameraman on board, that had the plane overloaded by at least 130
pounds and loaded extremely nose heavy. When he reached cruise altitude for a photo
run, it went into an unrecoverable dive.

George Patterson
Great discoveries are not announced with "Eureka!". What's usually said is
"Hummmmm... That's interesting...."

Did they recover the film?

Peter

"Bushy" wrote in message
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| Did they recover the film?
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They did. They had already completed several days of shooting. Raisner had
done this before for National Geographic, and they had tested the setup
before going up the side of the mountain. The IMAX film "Galapagos" is
dedicated to Raisner.

On Sat, 3 Jan 2004 23:24:45 -0800 "C J Campbell" wrote:


"Bushy" wrote in message
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| Did they recover the film?
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They did. They had already completed several days of shooting. Raisner had
done this before for National Geographic, and they had tested the setup
before going up the side of the mountain. The IMAX film "Galapagos" is
dedicated to Raisner.

Yes and a great show that is, I think they did a deep submersible
dive in that as well. So they had all points covered.

Al Giddings did that film.

R. Hubbell