Random curiosity

[Hawkmoon]

Guy Williams, the actor who starred in the Walt Disney Zorro television series, and in Lost in Space, retired to Argentina, and was living there when he died. He was living there during the Falkland Islands war in 1982. I wonder if he favored the Argentinian side or the English/Falkland Islanders' side.

[just Warren]

I don't know the answer but Zorro was a great show. Watched it with my then young kids on Vault Disney.

[RoadKingLarry]

I remember him fro Lost in Space.
Had to look up his bio.
Only 65 when he died.

[230RN]

RoadKingLarry might be interested to know that he liked sailing, owned a 40' ketch named Oceana.

Sterling Hayden was also a sailor, reportedly disliked acting, did it only to support his sailing habit.

[Mannlicher]

what on earth precipitated that question?         As a corollary,  why would anyone care what he thought?

[Hawkmoon]

What prompted the question was that I've been watching the old Zorro episodes on Youtube. My late wife and I had discussed taking a trip to see the Falklands (I wanted to go, she was afraid it would be too cold). Then I read a bio of Guy Williams and realized that he was living in Argentina at the time of the war... so I wondered. Nothing of cosmic importance, just curiosity.

[Ben]

what on earth precipitated that question?       

It's right in his subject line, yo.

[RoadKingLarry]

RoadKingLarry might be interested to know that he liked sailing, owned a 40' ketch named Oceana.

Sterling Hayden was also a sailor, reportedly disliked acting, did it only to support his sailing habit.

A sentiment I can fully understand.

[Scout26]

RoadKingLarry might be interested to know that he liked sailing, owned a 40' ketch named Oceana.

Sterling Hayden was also a sailor, reportedly disliked acting, did it only to support his sailing habit.

IIRC, Didn't Sterling Hayden do some secret squirrel OSS stuff in Yugoslavia in WWII ??



Yep...http://www.historynet.com/troubled-waters.htm

[230RN]

Yes, and he (Sterling Hayden) got some pretty good decorations for that.  Parachuted behind the lines.

He also "kidnapped" his children and sailed them to some south sea island (Tahiti?) on his boat. Got in trouble for that.


I'm sometimes amazed at some of the military history our favorite actors had.

I was interested that Bob Cummings was taught to fly by one of the Wright brothers his Godfather, Orville Wright, and was the first officially-certified (with certificate #1) flight instructor. Instructor for the Army Air Force, big civil aviation booster. Has a small airport in California named after him.  Or a runway, maybe, I'm not sure which.  Owned and flew an autocar, among other aircraft. One, called Spinach, was a green Cessna C-37 Airmaster, NC18550.

Charles Clarence Robert Orville Cummings with his Autocar sans trailer with wings and empennage:



Terry, 230RN

[grampster]

Bob Cummings. On his TV show, Love that Bob,  Schultzie was his housekeeper if I remember correctly and he ran around with Bill Lear.

[230RN]

Pokin' around the 'net on the Autocar, I found this undated article with excellent pictures of it. They're trying to sell it for $1million.  As far as I know, only 5 were built.  

http://www.nydailynews.com/autos/world-flying-car-created-1949-sale-1-million-article-1.1375626

The pictures are worth a click, I guess, if you're interested.

Terry

ETA:
Layout:


From:
http://www.pilotfriend.com/aircraft%20performance/aerocar.htm

I guess nowadays maybe an autogyro would be more practical.

[Hawkmoon]

I clicked. I remember seeing that contraption in magazines like Mechanix Illustrated and Popular Mechanics. My grandfather was a pilot, so the idea of a car you could fly absolutely fascinated me.

[freakazoid]

I'm sometimes amazed at some of the military history our favorite actors had.

I was pretty surprised to find out that Charlie Murphy, Eddie Murphy's brother, who had passed away last year had served for six years as a boiler tech in the Navy.