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News and Observer, Raleigh, Monday, January 3, 1977 Frank Tallman, 57, Show The Associated Press poses with some antique planes at his firm Biz Stunt Pilot, There's No Fear of Flying The Associated Press SANTA ANA, Calif. A television producer and his director met once again for a late-evening script conference. here Said the the plane producer, a bit the incredulously: prisoners crashes "You've between got it so carrying two trees. Both wings explode as they are cleanly sheared off by the foliage. Then the plane careens into the ground at 60 miles an hour.

First it flips up onto its nose and then flops over spewing glass and steel all over the place onto its left side so the prisoners can climb out the right door." "That's the way we're gonna shoot it," said the director. And that's the way it was shot two months ago for an episode of "'Spencer's Pilots," a 1 CBS television series (soon to be canceled) about flying adventures during World War II. The legendary Frank Tallman, probably the nation's leading stunt pilot, was at the controls. Special fastenings permitted the wings to shear off cleanly when they struck the trees, and some footwork with the brake put the 20-year-old Stinson on its left side as planned. Tallman, 57, planned and flew the crash scene in a heavily padded cockpit, as he has planned and flown so many stunt flights for movies and television.

Part of the Job 16 The For By MIKE GOODKIND "The crashes are part of the business. I don't ever look for them," says Tallman, who has been doing this sort of thing for years. "My stunt flying business has almost doubled this year." It's also a good year for the men who stunt drive cars for television. Planes and cars, in fact, are an alternative to sex and violence on the screen, about which there is so much controversy. "You've still got to have excitement," reasons Tallman.

Tallman's own script started with a pilot's license at age 16, a bit of barnstorming and then a stint with the Air Force in World War II. He is a high school dropout "because flying for me was easier than going to school." Now besides his flying, he also heads Tallmantz Aviation, which rents planes, services helicopters and sells aviation gasoline mostly for TV and movies. When the 50 or so antique planes that Tallman owns aren't on location, they're displayed for the public at Tallmantz' Orange County Airport headquarters. About 100 pilots fly scenes of varying danger on camera, and Tallman employs six of them. But he does the really harrowing scenes himself.

"I've had more experience in this than anyone else in 0 the world," says Tallman in the same soft-spoken voice he uses to describe his valuable antique collection. In recent years, if you've seen a spectacular airplaneflying sequence, like the flight through a billboard in the movie "Mad, Mad, Mad, World," Tallman probably did it. In a recent NBC special on the life of Amelia Earhart, it's Tallman at the stick when the landing gear on the female flyer's plane caves in. And he's there again when Miss Earhart crashes into a field with her instructor. For that scene, Tallman flipped the plane on its back.

"I'd much prefer to do something other than put something on its back You get an awful jolt. Every bone in your body just gives. It's always unpleasant No matter how you slice it, the plane stops dead and flips. The G- loads (gravity) are enormous." For a crash, Tallman's fee ranges from $2,500 to $10.000. That's a small part of his "six-figure contracts" for providing plane rentals, flight service, maintenance and pilots to TV producers.

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