STARFLIGHT ONE MOVIE CAST TV

The visual effects in Starflight: The Plane That Couldn’t Land were attributed to noted effects artist John Dykstra and Brick Price Movie Miniatures. The two craft ride in together, and once into the atmosphere, XU-5 veers off, while Cody manages to land Starflight after a harrowing steep descent through the upper atmosphere. Columbia cannot make a launch in time, but another shuttle, XU-5, in orbit on a military mission, arrives to assist just as Starflight is to hit the atmosphere. Josh suggests Starflight follow a shuttle on re-entry, believing the shuttle's heat shield would offer protection.

Columbia with the container and takes 38 more passengers, leaving only nine aboard.Ĭody sends electrical engineer Joe Pedowski on EVA to repair the damaged conduit. Josh is frustrated but an exchange with his wife Nancy reminds him of a fuel tank built by Culver Aviation that can be repurposed to carry people. The next five people, including Freddie Barrett, are lost when the flexible tunnel swings too close to the sparking electric line on the damaged underside of the airliner and ignites. Five passengers, including Hal, are successfully brought through. Cody has power restored, electrifying the conduit damaged by rocket debris.Ĭolumbia and six astronauts arrive with the tunnel, intending to rescue 20 passengers. He discovers Thornwell's universal docking tunnel, a flexible conduit that could be attached between Starflight and Columbia. Columbia returns to Earth with Josh aboard. Improvising, Cody sends Josh to Columbia inside the ambassador's coffin. Flight engineer Pete tests the airlock transfer but is killed when the hatch malfunctions and breaks free. NASA dispatches the Columbia Space Shuttle to refuel Starflight, while bringing Josh Gilliam back to Earth to work on the problem. Their hydrogen fuel runs out just as Starflight reaches orbit. When NASA says they are clear, Cody orders the jets shut off, but they keep firing because debris has severed the engine controls. Cody engages the scramjet engines again, but rocket debris hits the underside of the aircraft.

Engineer Chris Lucas recommends Starflight climb out of danger. NASA reports that destruction of the rocket produces debris, heading for Starflight. Freddie's rocket runs into trouble with the second stage and has to be destroyed. Cleared by NASA for liftoff, Starflight climbs to 23 miles using its scramjet engines, then levels off.

STARFLIGHT ONE MOVIE CAST TV

Winfield, can be taken aboard something that Del, the first officer, considers a bad omen.īud Culver, Freddie's partner in Australia, tells Freddie he must scrub that day's launch of a TV satellite because weather is closing in Freddie orders an immediate launch without NASA approval. Takeoff is delayed so that the body of the deceased Australian ambassador and his wife, Mrs. Passengers include designer Josh Gilliam, who is apprehensive about the engines not being under ground control, and satellite TV baron Freddie Barrett. On board are the pilot, Cody Briggs, cheating on his wife Janet with Erica Hansen, media-relations representative for Thornwell Aviation. Starflight, the first hypersonic transport, is being prepared for its maiden flight from Los Angeles to Sydney, Australia.

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