Thursday, December 28, 2023

In space, no one can hear your parachute

Everybody's talking about Flash Gordon, cartoonist Alex Raymond's new space guy.

It's 1934.

Space hero Flash Gordon, his girlfriend Dale Arden and Dr.  Hans Zarkov travel to the new planet of Mongo by rocket, where they meet evil ruler Ming the Merciless and his daughter Princess Aura. 

Above, Flash (Buster Crabbe) jumps from rocket ship to rocket ship by parachute. He survived in comics, radio, TV, serials, and movies most of the 20th century. 

"I think the contabulator wire shorted and the flux resistor (flux capacitors are found only in Delorians) added extra pressure to the rotary piston causing internal combustion. That is why he bailed out..."

 

 
Where are my Tom Corbett,
Space Cadet pajamas?

            Clip: Flash Gordon parachutes from a rocketship 

 

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