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sanjeev-thakur · 11 months
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"A MIRACLE IN THE JUNGLE"
One of the most incredible feats of survival in modern times.
Four children have just been found ALIVE in the Amazon jungle after a May 1st plane crash
The children aged 13, 9, 4 & 11-month old survived almost 40 DAYS in one of the harshest places on Earth.
They’re dehydrated and covered in insect bites, but they’re okay! 🙏
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longreads · 3 months
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Fortune-tellers. Ayahuasca rituals. A clandestine cocaine operation. A heroic dog. A gripping new Atavist Magazine story by William Ralston recounts the mission to find four children who survived a plane crash in the Amazon last year. 
The skies were blue that day, and there was a light wind. For around half an hour all was well. But as the Cessna approached Caquetá, a Colombian department that contains one of the densest, wettest, most remote corners of the Amazon, something went wrong. Over his radio, Murcia declared engine failure.
We’re proud to share chapter one of this story on our sister publication. Read “Miracle in the Jungle,” only on Longreads.
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kafiranablogs · 11 months
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His mother told him before she died
The four children were missing in the forest since May 1. Bogota, Colombia: “I’m hungry” and “my mother is dead” were the first words spoken by four children missing for 40 days in the Colombian jungle, members of a rescue group said in a televised interview on Sunday. After wandering alone for more than a month, Huatoto indigenous children aged 13, nine, five and one were rescued and airlifted…
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dranikajain · 11 months
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Four children missing since a May 1st plane crash in the Amazon jungle have just been found alive.
Truly a Miracle.
News Link: https://apnews.com/article/colombia-plane-crash-jungle-children-survivors-aeb67823acf0ebffb6eb2139453540dd
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TODAY’S FROZEN MOMENTs - A Christmas Eve Yin Yang of Two Girls in Blue… and also a blue marble …
90 Years Ago Today, on Christmas Eve 1933, in Willoughby, Ohio, a young girl in a blue dress was struck and killed by a train as it went by a boarding house there. No one knew who she was, and she had no identification. No one ever showed up looking for her. She carried no identification, only had 90 cents and a train ticket to Corry, Pennsylvania.
After holding her for a spell, the town shared in this headstone and buried her there in Willoughby for eternity…
Then on Christmas Eve in 1971, another girl in a blue dress, 17 year old Juliane Koepke, was sucked out of the Lansa Airlines flight she was on, after the plane was struck by lightning, falling two miles to the ground, still strapped into her seat. The lone survivor of the crashed plane, Juliane endured ten days alone in the Amazon jungle before being rescued.
One girl lost and one girl found… both remembered and both in blue…
In 1968, on Christmas Eve, “The Big Blue Marble” as this famous photo is now titled, was taken by astronaut Frank Borman aboard Apollo 8. This photo gave earthlings their first ever look at their beautiful blue marble planet home.
Borman spoke to his fellow humans below with, "...from the crew of Apollo 8, we close with good night, good luck, a merry Christmas, and God bless all of you—all of you on the good Earth.”
[Mary Elaine LeBey]
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monkprincess · 8 months
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Okay so u know how people retire. and in hinduism theres the four stages of life, first is for being a child and having fun, next is for studying and whatever, next one is for learning about spirituality and your last phase of life is for attaining moksha and tapping out. Well for the last phase of my life i am just manifesting going to get on a plane and crash in the middle of the amazon jungle and surviving and living and being one with the jungle for the last 20+ years of my life.
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adamwatchesmovies · 2 months
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Massacre in Dinosaur Valley (1985)
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There’s one genre of horror that feels particularly daunting to explore: the “cannibal horror” genre. Its best-known entry, 1980's Cannibal Holocaust is notorious for its real-life footage of animal killings and anyone whose interest is peaked hearing this probably needs psychological help. Then there’s the inherent racism of these stories: the plots almost always concern a group of urban people who encounter savage aboriginals that want nothing more than to butcher, cook and then eat white meat. You're curious why the genre was so prolific but you don’t want to be offended so you pick the most ridiculous-sounding entry of them all: Massacre in Dinosaur Valley. The idea is that when your hapless explorers are getting torn apart by prehistoric reptiles, it will be easy to forget about what’s socially acceptable and just laugh between the “yuck!” scenes.
Deep in the Amazon jungle live the reclusive Aquera Indians: a tribe of cannibals who have little contact with the outside world. Their territory contains the “Dinosaur Valley”, a bone-bed rich with fossils and hidden dangers. Palaeontologist Kevin Hall (Michael Spokiw), Professor Pedro Ibañez (Leonidas Bayer), his daughter Eva (Suzanne Carvalho), fashion models Belinda (Susan Hahn) and Monica (Maria Reis), Vietnam vet John Heinz (Milton Morris) and his wife Betty (Marta Anderson) are flying over the off-limits area when their plane suddenly crashes. The survivors must find a way back to civilization before they become victims of the jungle surrounding them.
Originally shot in Italian, then dubbed in English, no one - on camera or otherwise - gives a good performance. That only matters so much because you’re not here for high art. What you’re here for is the sleaze. You want nudity? Massacre in Dinosaur Valley has it in droves. We get to see the supermodels changing, Eva showering, a gratuitous sex scene that comes out of nowhere, a sadistic lesbian that can’t wait to tear Belinda’s top off and when the ladies get captured by the Aquera Indians (that’s what the movie calls them so I will too), the cannibals promptly rip off their clothes and give them new outfits that barely cover anything. The objective was to find as many ways to show the actresses barring it all - logic or tact be damned. When Eva is shown in the nude (there’s quite a bit of full-frontal nudity), she’s showering with the doors to the bathroom and hotel room wide open so anyone can walk in. When Kevin wanders inside looking for her father, he gets a nice view. He gives her a towel, but she only realizes a stranger provided the helping hand after about 30 seconds. My question is… who did she THINK was helping her dry off? Her father? Gross.
Speaking of gross, how’s the gore? Disappointing, unfortunately. With a title like Massacre in Dinosaur Valley, you expect to see the idiots who stumble into that green inferno getting dismembered, decapitated, flayed alive and otherwise brutalized before getting eaten - either by dinosaurs or racist caricatures. Someone does get eaten but it’s nothing spectacular and isn’t treated as such either, which is a letdown. By my count, there are two massacres in this movie. Too bad it’s not the people you expect that get reduced to deli meat. Most of our ill-fated adventurers bite the dust because of non-cannibal dangers, which you might not think is a big deal. It’s not called Massacre in Cannibal Valley, am I right? Just wait.
The film could essentially be split into three parts, only one of which has anything to do with that titular valley. Part one is a story filled with quicksand, flesh-eating jungle beasts and other clichés. Part two concerns the cannibals. Part three, the white slavers! Between these three hurried plots, fans of bad movies will have some laughs. There’s plenty of questionable behavior spread throughout, the gratuitous nudity is so outlandish it’s hard not to crack a smile, the body count is so extreme it's hilarious, there are plenty of ideas introduced and then dropped and at points, it’s hard to tell if the movie is implying certain things or if the filmmaking and continuity are just THAT BAD. A lot of stuff just happens because writer/director Michele Massimo Tarantini wanted it to happen. Logic had nothing to do with it.
Massacre in Dinosaur Valley is better shot than you'd think, the plot moves along quickly enough to prevent you from getting bored and it manages to be so incompetent you skip the phase where you’d be offended and go directly to rolling your eyes while chuckling at the pathetic attempts at storytelling. All this SHOULD make for a decent “so bad it’s good” cannibal film… if it weren’t for one glaring flaw. There are no dinosaurs in this movie. None! What a ripoff! (November 5, 2021)
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dasenergi · 11 months
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In his visions, he saw them. He told Guerrero: “’We’ll find the children today.”
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books-in-a-storm · 4 months
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Book Of The Week
Title: But Did You Die? #1 Klutz: Phoenix Down
Author: Sedona Ashe
Pages: 206
Synopsis:
After I rescued these jerks from a plane crash, you’d think they’d be nicer to me. I die, like all the time. My track record of hilarious, freak accidental deaths would be impressive if it weren’t so embarrassing. And when I come back, I’m naked. Every. Dang. Time.
After my plane was sabotaged and crashed into the jungle, I rescued five male survivors from the wreckage.
I could have let them die, but no, I decided to pull their stupid carcasses from the wreckage. I’m immortal, not a monster.
Yes, they’re hot, now is not the time to do something about that.
The five sexy jaguar shifters are on a mission to locate someone, a rare phoenix shifter. Phoenix, the legendary creature, reborn every time it dies. Wait…
…Could they be looking for me?
It doesn’t matter since they walked away and left me to die in the Amazon rainforest. A place full of interesting new ways for a klutz like me to die. Surviving the jungle is harsh, but it’s nothing compared to how they have treated me.
And the worst part?
It turns out these bullies are my fated mates. Yep, I must be cursed.
I can’t wait to escape the jungle and leave these guys behind, but another part of me is begging to love them…
Was the Amazon always this hot?
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suzie-shooter · 1 year
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End-of-year ask game, 8, 16, and 20! (Hopefully they aren't repeats!)
8. Is there a story idea in your mental vault that you’ve never been brave enough to try writing? Is this the year? Can you tell us about it? The only one that springs to mind (and I think this one dates back to when I was writing Yalex the first time round) is a plane crash in the Amazon fic, various survivors of dubious morality (including Y and A obvs, but AU and they don't know each other) and the story is variously them trying to get through the jungle alive (I am a sucker for Amazon exploration books), and the infighting of the survivors, and Alex ends up essentially giving himself to Yassen in return for his protection. It's been knocking around in my head for literally years, but who knows if I'll ever write it down!
16. Do you have that one fanfic that you wrote a ton for, ages ago, but never posted? Will this be the year, come hell or high water, that it WILL get finished and posted? Yeah, I've got 16k of a Musketeers fic that I should have finished and posted two years ago, oops. (Hi guys!)
20. Any plans to work on original fiction this year? I have got an original story draft (and idea for a series) that I poke at every now and then, but playing with my blorbos is more fun (and more rewarding in terms of instant gratification 😆)
Thank you!
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rosieblogstuff · 10 months
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Whump ask game fun time!!
🍏 - How do you get inspiration for whump?
🎀 - Do you know any good songs for whump?
😂😂😂 so it's the tough questions tonight.
🍏 - How do you get inspiration for whump?
UhhhHhhHhhmmmmm it depends I guess?
Like Bad Penny was inspired by a comment someone else made about 2x04.
Airplane + Mountain honestly I just really really loved the Cairo Day prompt photo of the snowy landscape with the iced over stream zigzagging through it so I spent a lot of time trying to come up with interesting ways to whump somebody in the snowy wilderness. The plane crash section was just supposed to be the means to the end. I'm like 3k away from the actual whumpy part I had in mind.
Lake + Stick + Fever was for a "fever" prompt. My original idea was around rate bite fever. Somebody was going to get an animal bite on some op and then come down with a fever while in the middle of another op without medical access. Like in the Amazon jungle maybe. There was going to be a river, maybe some rafts being constructed at some point, maybe snakes or crocodiles or piranhas something. Clearly that is... not how it went. 😂 I did NOT write that story in order, and I kept deciding the parts I had were too boring and changing details. At some point I decided that the worst fever-related thing I could come up with was Mac hallucinating he'd been abandoned. Then I decided I could make it even worse...
🎀 - Do you know any good songs for whump?
Literally no? I honestly rarely listem to music when I write or for writing mood or anything. When I do listen to music when I'm writing or working, I'm mostly using it as background noise, like if I'm at a cafe or my children are just being rowdy or listening to some TV show I don't want to be hearing. I'm a sad sad soul with zero writing-related playlists.
Link to the original ask game
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theowritesfiction · 11 months
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They were 4 siblings: a 13-year-old girl, a 9-year-old girl, a 4-year-old boy, and an 11-month-old baby girl, who turned 1 during their 40 (!!!) days in the Amazon rainforest. Their plane had crashed in the jungle killing the three adults (including their mom), and they survived alone in the middle of the jungle, until one of the military dogs, named Wilson, found them. Unfortunately, Wilson the dog is now missing.
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notesfromachair · 11 months
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Grumpy Golden Faucets
Here’s a great and meaningful story this week that’s not about that big, bloated news hog. Four children were rescued in Colombia’s Amazon jungle, surviving alone for 40 DAYS after their plane crashed last month.  That crash killed all three adults onboard, including their mother. But the kids – aged 13, 9. 4 and 1 – lived due to the knowledge and skill they acquire at a young age as members…
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papermoonloveslucy · 1 year
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THE WILD BLUE YONDER!
Lucy & Aviation
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Thanks to Orville and Wilbur Wright, the world became a smaller place and travel by air become as commonplace as train or car travel. Lucille Ball and her many characters had lots of reasons to take to the ‘friendly skies’ - here are just a few. 
Orville and Wilbur Wright were inventors and pioneers of aviation. In 1903 the Wright brothers achieved the first powered, sustained and controlled airplane flight; they surpassed their own milestone two years later when they built and flew the first fully practical airplane. The Wrights were mentioned several times in the Lucyverse:
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Olin Howland (Mr. Skinner in “First Stop” 1955) ~ As a young man he learned flying from the Wright Brothers.
“Speech for a Civic Organization” (1949) ~ Liz intends to speak about the Wright Brothers, despite her favorite husband’s objections.
“The Good Years” (1962) ~ Orville and Wilbur were mentioned in the special starring Lucille Ball and Henry Fonda.
“Swing Out Sweet Land” (1970) ~ Rowan and Martin played the Wright Brothers and Lucy voiced the Statue of Liberty in John Wayne’s TV special celebrating American history.  
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As a busy radio, film and television star, Lucille Ball was constantly photographed boarding and disembarking from aircraft. 
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1930′s ~ Young model Lucille Ball holds a model airplane for a photo shoot. 
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May 1938 ~ Publicists created fascinating and completely untrue backgrounds for Hollywood stars. In this article, Monroe Lathrop claims that Lucille Ball was a skilled aviatrix who shot crocodiles while flying over a jungle river. 
“On a visit to Colombia, Lucille, avid for new adventure, went with friends Into the jungle, meeting a flood that had swollen the streams and overrun the banks with huge crocodiles. Instead of heeding the natives' warning, Lucille went to wireless station, ordered an airplane and rifles, and spent a day pumping lead into the big green saurians. Natives rewarded her with a generous helping of crocodile steak later.”
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Five Came Back (1939) ~ Nine passengers from all walks of life and a crew of three take off from Los Angeles, bound for Panama City, but a sudden storm blows them off course and causes the plane to crash in the Amazon jungle. Lucille Ball played passenger Peggy Nolan. The B film helped Ball launch an A list career.
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1940s ~ Lucille Ball posing in a biplane cockpit.
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June 1943 - Newspapers reported that Jimmy Cagney had christened a B-17 bomber named The Lucille Ball. After it was scrapped due to battle damage, a second bomber was christened The Lucille Ball in 1944. 
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A Woman of Distinction (1950) ~ Lucille Ball appears in a cameo as herself, a jet-setting film star, in this Rosalind Russell / Ray Milland film. 
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“Return Home From Europe” (1956) ~ To get back to New York in time to play the Roxy, the Ricardos and Mertzes fly home from Europe, rather than go by ship. Unable to whittle down her luggage allowance, Lucy is intent on smuggling a cheese aboard, disguising it as a baby. 
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There are establishing shots of Pan American World Airways (PAA) President Clipper Service. The Clipper in the insert shot is named Bald Eagle. There are two insert shots of Pan Am aircraft: one taking off, and one in mid-flight. The DC-7C (nicknamed “seven seas”) first entered service for Pan Am in December 1955 and was dubbed “the zenith of piston-engine technology.” Pan Am had 27 DC-7Cs flying during 1956. By 1958, jet travel began to overtake propeller airplanes.
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The interior of the aircraft was recreated on the Desilu soundstage. The PAA logo is visible on blankets and tote bags, items provided by Pan Am for the use of their name and images of their aircraft as well as possible other promotional consideration. 
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“The Ricardos Visit Cuba” (1956) ~ While in Miami, the gang flies to Havana to visit Ricky’s family. 
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The gang once again flies Pan American Airways, the same carrier they took home from Europe.  The airline folded in 1991.  
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As with their previous flight, there is an establishing shot of the plane in the air and the interior was recreated on the Desilu soundstage. The set is basically the same one used in “Return Home from Europe”.  It also features PAA branded promotional items. 
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“Lucy Goes To Alaska” (1959) ~ The Ricardos and Merztes fly to the brand new state of Alaska, where Ricky and Fred have bought some land and Ricky is doing a TV show with Red Skelton.  Although the action is set in and around Nome, the second unit footage was filmed in Lake Arrowhead, California, about 100 miles from Hollywood. The exteriors were done with doubles and none of the regular cast left their newly-purchased Desilu (formerly RKO) Studio. 
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To get from Westport CT to Nome AK, the gang first flies United Airlines, then transfers to Alaska Airlines. There is establishing footage of both planes in mid-flight.
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The set features a couple of travel posters for Alaska Airlines, enticing viewers to visit the 49th state for tourism. In the second half of the hour, a small propeller plane is introduced to rescue Red and Lucy from a blizzard.  
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RED: “What’s that blue stuff?” ESKIMO PILOT: “Sky.” LUCY (To Red): “You act as though you’ve never seen sky before.” RED: “I haven’t. I live in Los Angeles.”
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The plane is buried in a snowbank. Lucy pays an eskimo pilot $100 to fly her and Red to safety. 
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While the plane in the snowbank was filmed in the Hollywood studio, the safe landing was done at Lake Arrowhead using actor doubles. 
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“The Ricardos Go To Japan” (1959) ~ The final time we see the gang airborne is on a trip to Japan. Although there is a poster for Japan Airlines (JAL)  in the airport...
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 According to the establishing footage of the jet in mid-air, the foursome travels  on United Airlines.
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The Facts of Life (1960) ~ The film about two marrieds flirting with infidelity has Kitty Weaver (Lucille Ball) waiting at the airport where a United Airlines jet can be seen on the tarmac in the background. 
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“Mr. & Mrs.” aka “The Lucille Ball Comedy Hour” (1964) ~ A comedy special in which Lucille Ball plays the head of a studio trying to track down Bob Hope to star in a show about husband and wife television stars. The first half concerns Lucy's tracking the elusive Hope all around the world. In San Francisco, there is establishing footage of a jet landing which was supplied courtesy of TWA, a carrier that went out of business in 2001.  
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“The Victor Borge Comedy Theatre” (1962) & “Lucy Flies To London” (1966) ~ The unaired pilot for an unsold comedy anthology series hosted by Borge featured a sketch starring Gale Gordon and Lucille Ball as two strangers on a plan. 
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It was filmed before “The Lucy Show” paired the two as a comedy duo. In the pilot, the characters were strangers. Gordon played a businessman and Ball a neurotic first-time flyer. 
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When it came time for Lucy Carmichael to fly to London for the special “Lucy in London”, the writers realized they could recycle the script from the un-aired pilot for “The Lucy Show” episode. The dialogue is nearly identical, now with the added context that Mr. Mooney and Lucy are boss and secretary.
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“Lucy in London” (1966) ~ An hour-long special set in England and filmed on location. The sequence involving Lucy de-planing from the Pan Am clipper jet had to be accomplished in between flights already on the tarmac at Heathrow. No planes were available to be grounded for a day of shooting. Coincidentally (or perhaps not) Pan Am was also the carrier when Lucy Ricardo flew home from Europe and from Miami to Havana on “I Love Lucy.”  
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“Viv Visits Lucy” (1967) ~ To greet her old friend, Lucy meets her at the airport, where a backdrop shows jets on the tarmac. Lucy looks up and sees Viv’s flight approaching. 
LUCY: “Oh, look! Someone’s hanging out of the plane. It look like Viv!” PILOT: “That’s the landing gear.” LUCY: “Oh.” 
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“Little Old Lucy” (1967) ~ When the 90 year-old president of the bank (Dennis Day) is in town and needs an escort to the bank’s banquet, Lucy is volunteered.  Lucy and Mr. Mooney meet him at the airport, where jets can be seen in the background. 
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“Lucy and Carol Burnett: Part 1 & 2″ (1967) ~ Lucy and Carol Tilford (Carol Burnett) sign up to be flight attendants, then put on a variety show celebrating aviation. They are employed by the fictional Globe World Airlines. 
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Instead of asking bachlor GWA VP Mr. Brenner if he would like coffee, tea or milk, Lucy says “coffee, tea or me”!  Earlier in 1967, the book Coffee Tea or Me? was published. It was the alleged memoirs of two stewardess and their romantic and sexual escapades in the air. The popularity of this book may be the reason for this episode.
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Frustrated by Lucy and Carol's bungling, Mr. Brenner (Rhodes Reason) says “Is this any way to run an airline?”  The line gets a huge reaction from the studio audience. In 1963 a National Airlines TV commercial featured a flight attendant asking “Is this any way to run an airline? You bet it is!”  In 1966, singer Tom Paxton wrote and recorded a song with the same title.
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In Part Two, their musical salute to aviation features Buddy Rogers and Richard Arlen, stars of the very first Academy-Award winning motion picture Wings (1929), a movie about flight. Coincidentally, on the same day this airline-themed episode premiered, the supersonic Concorde was unveiled in France. Also on this date, newspapers announced the crash of a twin-engine plane in Madison, Wisconsin that killed recording star Otis Redding and six others.   
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The revue ends with “The Army Air Corps Song” with flight attendants and college boys perched on the wings of a bi-plane. 
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“Lucy and the Great Airport Chase” (1969) ~ Filmed entirely on location at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), Lucy and Harry get caught up in chasing down spies. Part of the chase takes them onto the tarmac with the jets. 
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A Douglas DC-8-52 of United Airlines is on the right and Douglas DC-8-54AF Jet Trader of United Airlines Jet Freighter is in the background.
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“The Carol Burnett Show” (1969) ~ In a sketch, Lucy and Carol play flight attendnts and Harvey Korman plays a mysterious passenger with a Fidel Castro-like beard, cigars tucked in his breast pocket, and a Spanish accent. When this episode was aired, hijackings were in the news. 
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“Lucy, the Sky Diver” (1970) ~ Trying to show her kids how dangerous their hobbies are, Lucy jumps from a plane!  Although there is second unit location footage of the plane and Lucy floating down on her parachute, Lucille Ball remained at the studio with a recreation of the aircraft and a simulated parachute. 
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“Lucy, the Part-Time Wife” (1970) ~ Lucy and Harry go to the airport to meet an old flame of his (Carole Cook). The airport background shows jets on the tarmac. 
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“Lucy Helps David Frost Go Night-Night” (1971) ~ Lucy takes an assignment accompanying David Frost on a transatlantic flight so that he can get some rest. Thanks to Lucy, his flight is anything but restful!  The first class section of a 747 was recreated for the episode. 
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The jet seen in the stock footage of the airport is a Pan Am Boeing 747 with an upper deck first class lounge.
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David Frost reckons that he has taken 346 air trips or traveled 1,853,000 miles!
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Mame (1974) ~ At the end of the film, Auntie Mame waves goodbye to Patrick, has she flies off to her next adventure. 
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“Lucy Gets Lucky” (1975) ~ Although Lucy Collins took the bus to Las Vegas to see her favorite star Dean Martin, at the end of the special she flies off into the sunset with him on his private jet. Dreams come true! 
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