KHFR is the default lfight, so no need to file a plan.

https://www.thediscoverer.com/blog/most-romantic-small-towns-in-the-u-s/

 

 

 

 

Edited June 23, 20205 yr by Fielder

I've not been to the two in NY, but have been to the other 6. Of those I'd say it's a toss up. There are, no doubt dozens more.

Bruce    

Nope, the most romantic town in the US in aviation terms, is located at either 3400 Warner Blvd, Burbank, or at 6590 Hayvenhurst Avenue, Van Nuys, just up the road from it. Why?

Well the first location is where part of the famous final scene from the movie Casablanca, was shot, on Stage 21 of the Warner lot and now part of the Warner Bros studio tour. This is of course pivotal to the plot where Rick sacrifices his shot at romance with Ilsa, so she can stay with her husband, Victor Laszlo, in order to be his inspiration in the fight against the Germans whilst in exile in a scene which does not leave a dry eye in the house. That scene at that locale is without doubt the most romantic thing ever, as well as being the coolest. The bit shot here, was the scene where Major Strasser arrives to try to stop Laszlo leaving Casablanca, but is shot by Rick when he tries to telephone the control tower to stop the Air France aeroplane from leaving with Laszlo and Ilsa on board.

The second location is the old Los Angleles Metropolitan Airport, where some of the aeroplane scenes were shot. It is now Van Nuys Airport, but despite the buildings changing doesn't alter the fact that this is where much of that scene was shot.

Fun facts about that scene and others in the movie: Since it was made in 1942, much of it is filmed with aircraft which stand in for other types owing to the difficulties of using aeroplanes which were at the time 'enemy' aircraft or simply unavailable because there were flying in enemy-occupied territories. The most obvious one of these is the Fokker Super Universal, which is a model in shots where it flies over Rick's Cafe Americain, but a real one was painted up as a German diplomatic aeroplane complete with Swastika on the tail to represent a Lufthansa/Luftwaffe transport. All the other German aeroplanes seen in the movie are newsreel footage: Ju87s, He-111s and bf110s.

In the scenes shot at Van Nuys, you can see stuff such as Lockheed Vegas, but the most important aeroplane is of course the 'Air France' passenger plane which the characters need the letters of transit, pivotal to the plot, in order to board. In the movie, this is a Lockheed Electra Junior Model L-12A, which is a type that Air France never actually operated, but is painted up to represent an Air France aeroplane and this is indeed a real aeroplane (NC17376, but wearing the spurious French registration F-AMPJ in the film). What is interesting about this, is that whilst it is obvious in the shot where it takes off, that a model aeroplane was used, what is less obvious is the fact that for many of the other shots in the movie where people need to be in the scene too, to make the set look bigger on the sound stage and force the perspective, a 3/4 scale L-12A model was used, with dwarf actors dressed as ground personnel in front of it. Fog was added to conceal this but it looks pretty convincing. This was a technique also used in the movie Alien, where director Ridley Scott had his kids in space suits near a model of the spaceship Nostromo's landing strut in order to make the thing look massive, so it is a technique which does still get used from time to time.

The shots of the real aeroplane are mostly where it is firing up its engines, with the clever use of the whine of the inertia starter used to make it sound like a scream as the drama and tension build when Bogart makes his iconic 'Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow but soon and for the rest of your life' speech to Ingrid Bergman's Ilsa.

It's definitely the most romantic scene ever, so it's gotta be the most romantic location. Fun other fact. Because Bogart's Rick famously says 'we'll always have Paris' in Casablanca, which is also of course very romantic, and because I'm a massive Bogart fan, I went out of my way to get my Fiancee Fiona to go to Paris with me so I could propose to her at a Parisian street cafe whilst we were there.  🙂

This would be a very boring place without you, Alan!! 👍

What a romantic guy. And, he spares no expense to impress his prospective bride.

Here is a pic from that very trip:

1 hour ago, Chock said:

Here is a pic from that very trip:

A fine duo of pirates.     

Sky pirates..! Well, in the case of Al anyway!