Airport 79

Continuing with the Airport series of movies this weekend I checked out “Airport 79 The Concord”.   It was nice to see some of the characters from previous Airports getting a seat again.   This time they actually spent a bit of money.   I had no idea the concorde existed in 1979…  or that it could fly upside side to avoid heat seeking missiles.    The big surprise was the passenger list.   JJ from Good Times and the husband from Greenacres.  
The story line didn’t have us in the air much…  even though the concorde was attacked on both legs of it’s flight from Washington to Moscow.  There was a lot of time spent on on-ground romances, hookers in hotel rooms, evil men “fixing” the plane and some corporation building the heat seeking missiles.   Oh and Robert Wagner played the part of the bad guy.   He had his on personal groovy 70’s jet…   with colour TV!   I won’t tell you how he ends up in the movie….   but he doesn’t pick up his luggage.   The best thing about this movie is very funny manouvering of the concorde as the cartoon-like missiles come after the plane…  I can see why they decided to make Flying High after watching this movie.
I still think Airport 75 is hard to beat for all it’s camp 70’s glory.   Next week we’ll check out the original “Airport”.