Reality Check: Gentlemen in Flight

May 8, 2009 — Sci-Fi London

Reality Check:

Gentlemen in Flight

Illustration of Little Nellie by Edgar Aromin

George Takei is Captain Hikaru Sulu

In a special episode looking at two of the great gentlemen of the sky, who first found fame in the 1960s with their piloting of classic Sci-Fi air/spacecraft, Chris Patmore talks to George Takei about being the helmsman of the Starship Enterprise in Star Trek in both the classic TV series and beyond while Alex Fitch talks to Wing Commander Ken Wallis about building and flying the gyrocopter ‘Little Nellie’ in You only live twice and its stablemate in The Martian Chronicles…

For more info, please visit the home of this podcast at Sci-Fi London

Links: For more info about George and the re-release of the classic series of Star Trek on Blu Ray please visit www.georgetakei.com and www.startrek.com

For more info about Ken and the BFI’s current Bond and Beyond season… www.kenwallisautogyro.com and www.bfi.org.uk

 Listen to Alex interview Brent (Data) Spiner about his career…

Comics / sci-fi news:
Kamishibai.org is now live, being a resource for Japan’s performance art of telling stories with sequential images, including info on the next London performance of the form on May 31st…

plus:

This weekend brings the Bristol International Comics Expo 2009
and guests including:
GARY FRANK, ALAN DAVIS, IAN GIBSON, DAVE GIBBONS, DAVID HINE, MARK BUCKINGHAM, JOHN M. BURNS, MIKE COLLINS, IAN EDGINTON, PHIL WINSLADE, GILBERT SHELTON, HUNT EMERSON, SIMON BISLEY, KEVIN O’NEILL, MIKE PLOOG, CHARLES ADLARD, SEAN PHILLIPS, and DUNCAN FEGREDO
and many more to the West of England…

A special One-Off Convention for 2009 hosted Exclusively at the RAMADA PLAZA HOTEL 9th-10th May

The Expo is sold out but the Small Press Expo 2009
on Saturday, the 9th of May at the Mercure Holland House hotel is taking plabe also in Bristol,

and features:

Darwin Story Great Graphic Give-away
250 copies of Darwin: A Graphic Biography by Simon Gurr and Eugene Byrne up for grabs!
Expo Exclusive! – The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century – Rare signing by artist Kevin O’Neill
Signings by Simon Bisley, Glen Fabry, Will Simpson, Gilbert Shelton and Hunt Emerson
Guest appearance from actor Doug Bradley (Pinhead – Hellraiser)

More info at www.spexpo.co.uk and www.fantasyevents.org respectively