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Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land (also known as Starflight One or Airport 85[1][Note 1]) is a 1983 television film (for the ABC Sunday Night Movie) directed by Jerry Jameson and starring Lee Majors, Hal Linden, Lauren Hutton, Ray Milland, Gail Strickland, George DiCenzo, Tess Harper, and Terry Kiser.
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Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land. On the maiden flight of the first hypersonic commercial plane which can make the flight from New York City to London in four hours, a minor disaster occurs resulting in the plane actually leaving the Earth's atmosphere and orbiting around the globe.
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- Jerry Jameson
- 1983-02-27
Starflight One, a commercial aircraft that can whisk passengers around the globe in a matter of hours, embarks on its maiden voyage. The trip goes horribly awry, however, when the aircraft is...
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- Lee Majors
- Jerry Jameson
- Sci-Fi
Starflight One, a commercial aircraft that can whisk passengers around the globe in a matter of hours, embarks on its maiden voyage. The trip goes horribly awry, however, when the aircraft is forced out of the atmosphere and into outer space.
The fictional story of the first "hypersonic" commercial passenger plane, which can make the flight from New York to London in a mere four hours. On the maiden flight of this plane, a minor disaster occurs resulting in the plane actually leaving the Earth's atmosphere and orbiting around the globe. A lack of heat-resistant tiling prevents the ...
- Jerry Jameson
Apr 18, 2022 · Starflight One is far too languid in its tension-building to approach the level of popular space fantasy of the time. That, though, was not the goal. Often, by design, between the eerie vacuum of space and the technical din of the various control rooms and whatnot, the movie is downright quiet.
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Starflight One, a commercial aircraft that can whisk passengers around the globe in a matter of hours, embarks on its maiden voyage. The trip goes horribly awry, however, when the aircraft is forced out of the atmosphere and into outer space.
