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here," right? And, so again, in a full circle, years later I'm riding in a B-25 Mitchell Bomber (recording it for George Watters' sound team on the Michael Bay film Pearl Harbor). The plane was flying from Chino, California, to Corpus Christi, Texas, with a refueling stop in New Mexico. I recorded all throughout the aircraft during the trip and spent the last hour or so in the plexiglass nose in the bombardier seat, watching the Rio Grande passing below me and thinking about all the guys who were on bombing missions, scared for their lives, while they were sitting in that seat. So, biographies and things like that kind of always piqued my imagination and pointed out to me that my real interest was in people and their stories, and how they got to experience what they did. I think that is what has always inspired me to want to tell stories, and I Russian MI-24 helicopter Lancaster, TX 10/27/12. A Good Day to Die Hard (2013). Photo by Jay Wilkinson. Inside the Jailbird C-123. Las Vegas. Con Air (1997). Recording engine startups on Jailbird C-123 in Las Vegas, NV. Con Air (1997). Setting up recorders and mics for MI-24 recording. Lancaster, TX 10/27/12. A Good Day to Die Hard (2013). Photo by Jay Wilkinson M OT I O N P I CTU R E S O U N D E D I TO R S 141

