Cody is inspired by a reference in an idle, frustrated exchange with his mistress Erica, sending Josh to Columbia inside the ambassador's coffin. Pete ( Michael Sacks), the flight engineer, tests the airlock transfer, but the airlock hatch will not close and it breaks free, sending Pete into the void. The astronaut who does the fueling looks at the engine control conduit at Cody's request, and she recommends shutting the line down.
The Columbia space shuttle is sent up to try to help it brings a supply of hydrogen to refuel Starflight, and an airlock is brought to try to bring Josh Gilliam back to Earth to work on the problem. NASA believes their orbit is good for 48–60 hours, but they need to conserve power and other consumables. The fuel runs out just as Starflight reaches orbital velocity/altitude. Gilliam is concerned that if there is a flaw in the structure, Starflight would break up. Waiting until the hydrogen fuel runs out is now their only option, but they risk accelerating out of the atmosphere and into orbit. When NASA says they are clear, Cody orders the jets shut off, but they keep firing because debris has severed the engine controls. Cody engages the scramjet engines again but rocket debris starts hitting the underside of the aircraft. Thornwell okays Cody letting NASA help engineer Chris Lucas (Stephen Keep) recommends Starflight climb out of danger. NASA reports, due to an incorrect course, when the rocket was destroyed, it produced a million pieces of debris headed at Starflight. Freddie’s rocket also launches, but runs into trouble with the second stage, and has to be destroyed. Cleared by NASA for liftoff, Starflight climbs to 23 miles using its scramjet engines, then levels off. Finally, Josh Gilliam, the designer (Hal Linden), has misgivings, wishing the engines were under ground control.īud Culver ( Redmond Gleeson), Freddie's partner in Australia, tells Freddie he must scrub that day's launch of the satellite because weather is closing in Freddie orders an immediate launch, without NASA approval, which won't come because of Starflight moving into the airspace. Del (Kirk Scott), the first officer, remembers that nothing good happened the last time a corpse came aboard his aircraft. Starflight’s takeoff is delayed a short time so that the deceased Australian ambassador and his wife, Mrs. Freddie Barrett ( Terry Kiser) is trying to get his communications satellite launched from Australia to start his business carrying television signals. Hal Parisi (Phil Coccoioletti) married another passenger because she won the trip on TV, but he is only interested in getting his stolen gold out of the country. The passengers bring some of their problems on board: the pilot, Cody Briggs (Lee Majors), is unfaithful to his wife Janet ( Tess Harper) and having an affair with the media relations representative for Thornwell Aviation, Erica Hansen (Lauren Hutton). Corny, even by 70s disaster film standards.Starflight, the first hypersonic transport is being prepared for a media-covered inaugural flight from Los Angeles to Sydney, Australia, a planned two-hour flight. The story here involves the first "hypersonic" passenger airplane, but something goes wrong (Titanic style) on it's maiden voyage. And like most disaster films of this time, there was the usual mix of famous stars of the past (Ray Milland, Robert Webber, Jocelyn Brando ) and familiar faces of the moment (Lauren Hutton, Tess Harper, Terry Kiser, Gail Strickland, George DiCenzo, and Heather McAdam).
Starflight one movie movie#
I'd dismiss the film as TV movie quality, but it actually was a TV movie and features TV stars like Lee "Six Million Dollar Man" Majors and Hal "Barney Miller" Linden. From the writer of "Escape to Witch Mountain" and the director of "Gomer Pyle" and "Walker, Texas Ranger" comes an awfully forgettable Airport disaster film ripoff.
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