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| − | [[Image:Contact.jpg|thumb|right|400px|none|Contact DVD cover]] | + | [[Image:Contact.jpg|thumb|right|400px|none|Contact DVD cover.]] |
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| + | Eleanor Arroway first became interested in making long distance contacts using an amateur radio when she was very young. Her curiosity continued to grow as she got older and she later became a scientist. | ||
| − | + | Dr. Arroway traveles to Puerto Rico to work on a project called the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) program using the Arecibo Observatory. After years of listening, she finds a strong signal repeating a sequence of prime numbers from the star Vega. | |
| − | + | With the help of several nations, the U.S. began constructing a transport using detailed instructions that were discovered in the signals coming from Vega. This caused a lot of controversy which ended with the destruction of the machine and killed many people. However, S.R. Hadden, a billionaire industrialist who lives on his own airliner, was secretly building an identical replacement in Japan. | |
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| − | + | == [[:Category:Sikorsky UH-60|Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk]] == | |
| + | [[Image:Contact_heli.png|thumb|500px|none|Two military helicopters approach the Very Large Array (VLA).]] | ||
| + | [[Image:Contact_heli_landed.png|thumb|500px|none|Military and government personnel arrive at site.]] | ||
| + | == [[:Category: Boeing 727|Modified Boeing 727]] == | ||
| + | [[Image:Contact_plane_Hadden.png|thumb|500px|none|Hadden's Home.]] | ||
| + | == [[:Category:Bell 206|Bell 206L-1 LongRanger II]] == | ||
| + | Registration N388JC, Serial 45568. Same aircraft in other works at [[IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft (Rotary-Wing)]]. | ||
| + | [[Image:Contact_heli_Hadden.png|thumb|500px|none| Hadden company helicopter.]] | ||
| − | == [[:Category: | + | == [[:Category:BAe/McDonnell Douglas Harrier II|McDonnell Douglas AV-8 Harrier]] == |
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A CGI modified version of the Harrier, most noticeably the wingtips. | A CGI modified version of the Harrier, most noticeably the wingtips. | ||
| − | + | [[Image:Contact_plane5.png|thumb|500px|none|Dr. Arroway being flown to the second transport.]] | |
| − | [[Image:Contact_plane5.png|thumb|500px|none| | + | [[Image:Contact_plane2.png|thumb|500px|none|Flying to the carrier during the rain storm.]] |
| − | + | [[Image:Contact_plane3.png|thumb|500px|none|Landing vertically on the plane carrier boat during the rain storm.]] | |
| − | [[Image:Contact_plane2.png|thumb|500px|none|Flying to the carrier during the rain storm.]] | ||
| − | [[Image:Contact_plane3.png|thumb|500px|none|Landing vertically on the plane carrier boat during the rain storm.]] | ||
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| + | {{Footnote}} | ||
== See also == | == See also == | ||
| − | * [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118884/fullcredits#cast Contact | + | * [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118884/fullcredits#cast Contact at IMDb] |
| − | * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact_(film) Contact on | + | * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact_(film) Contact at Wikipedia] |
| + | * [http://www.imcdb.org/movie_118884-Contact.html Contact on IMCDb] | ||
| + | * [http://imrdb.org/index.php?title=Contact Contact at IMRDb] | ||
| − | [[Category:Sikorsky | + | [[Category:Sikorsky UH-60]] |
| + | [[Category:Bell 206]] | ||
| + | [[Category:BAe/McDonnell Douglas Harrier II]] | ||
| + | [[Category:Boeing 727]] | ||
Latest revision as of 19:06, 17 July 2020
Movie (1997)
Starring:
Jodie Foster (Eleanor Arroway)
Matthew McConaughey (Palmer Joss)
James Woods (Michael Kitz)
Tom Skerritt (David Drumlin)
William Fichtner (Kent)
John Hurt (S.R. Hadden)
Eleanor Arroway first became interested in making long distance contacts using an amateur radio when she was very young. Her curiosity continued to grow as she got older and she later became a scientist.
Dr. Arroway traveles to Puerto Rico to work on a project called the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) program using the Arecibo Observatory. After years of listening, she finds a strong signal repeating a sequence of prime numbers from the star Vega.
With the help of several nations, the U.S. began constructing a transport using detailed instructions that were discovered in the signals coming from Vega. This caused a lot of controversy which ended with the destruction of the machine and killed many people. However, S.R. Hadden, a billionaire industrialist who lives on his own airliner, was secretly building an identical replacement in Japan.
Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk
Modified Boeing 727
Bell 206L-1 LongRanger II
Registration N388JC, Serial 45568. Same aircraft in other works at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft (Rotary-Wing).
McDonnell Douglas AV-8 Harrier
A CGI modified version of the Harrier, most noticeably the wingtips.
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