Not everyone made the move to Los Angeles.

Eric Schwab had stayed behind in New York.

Eric was the second unit director, Brian's protege.

Eric and his crew were in planning mode.

They were contemplating his big shot,

the one of the concord, a luxury plane,

landing at John F. Kennedy Airport.

The shot would have to be spectacular.

Eric and Brian had made a hundred dollar bet

on whether the shot would make it into the movie.

And Eric took their bet seriously,

not because of the hundred dollars,

but because he wanted to prove himself to Brian and to himself.

He'd been thinking about how to do the concord shot all spring.

We had to wait for the sun to move to the exact position we wanted.

So we knew probably two or three months ahead of time

that we had to wait until this actual day to do the shot.

He found this special calculator to help figure it out.

And it came with some very complicated compasses

and elevation devices.

So you could measure in any spot on the globe

at any day, at any time of the day,

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