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Driving home from visiting my Dad's parents in Homeland, CA we happened to stop at a truck stop that had three helicopters packed onto flat-beds.
I was quick to spot the Soviet markings, but they were mostly under tarps.
There's so much military in the Southwest, we had no idea what they could be. Real gear being tested? Vis-mods for training?
Some months later, in a theater, I shout, "I saw those packed on a truck in a truck stop!"
Were those the French helicopters they made over into faux Mi-24 Hinds?
ReplyDeleteAerospatiale Pumas, yes. Being the geek I was I thought I'd ID'd them correctly, but the vismod was throwing me until I saw the movie.
DeleteWhen they shot the mental hospital scenes for Terminator 2 at Pescadero State Hospital, the locals called the authorities, all fired up and pissed off to see all kinds of activity indicating to them that the state had re-opened the local former criminal lunatic asylum.
ReplyDeleteWhen they found out it was just Ahnuld making a Terminator movie, they finally shut up. After showing up to watch some of the filming.