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High Performance Computing in Science and Engineering: Transactions of the High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS) 1998

Egon Krause and Willi Jager

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The book contains reports about the most significant projects from science and industry that are...

De Rerum Natura (The Nature of Things): A Poetic Translation

David Slavitt and Lucretius

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This elegant new translation at last restores the poetry to one of the greatest and most influential...

RəX Regent (349 KP) rated The Concorde... Airport '79 (1979) in Movies

Apr 26, 2021

The Concorde... Airport '79 (1979)

1979 | Action, Drama, Mystery

5.0

(3 Ratings)

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Well paced (3 more)

Good action

Showcases what we all believed Concorde was orvcould have been.

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Well paced nonsense BUT it's the most entertaining of the series

Clearly the product of the post Star Wars universe, Airport joined the ranks of James Bond in cashing in on the science fiction/action cinema of the late seventies. Unlike Moonraker, this at least tries to maintain some "science fact", just misses the mark somewhat.

Though having said that, most of us are much more knowledgeable about airline proceedures than we were back in 1979 and this film just rides roughshod over most of them!

A long fall from grace from that original just nine years earlier...