Flight 714 (Vol 714 pour Sydney), sometimes Flight 714 to Sydney, first published in 1968, is the twenty-second of The Adventures of Tintin, the penultimate volume of a series of classic comic-strip albums, written and illustrated by Belgian writer and illustrator Hergé, featuring young reporter Tintin as a hero. Casterman is an a publishing company in Tournai, Belgium, mostly famous as the publisher of graphic novels, among which Tintin. ... Year 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Adventures of Tintin (French: ) is a series of Belgian comic books created by Belgian artist Hergé, the pen name of Georges Remi (1907–1983). ... Georges Prosper Remi (May 22, 1907 – March 3, 1983), better known by the pen name Hergé, was a Belgian comics writer and artist. ... Georges Prosper Remi (May 22, 1907 – March 3, 1983), better known by the pen name Hergé, was a Belgian comics writer and artist. ... Le journal de Tintin (in its French-speaking version), Kuifje (Dutch-speaking version), was a weekly realist Belgian comics magazine of the second half of the 20th century. ... Methuen Publishing Ltd is a British publishing house, and publishes in the areas of theatre and drama. ... The Castafiore Emerald (Les Bijoux de la Castafiore) is one of a series of classic comic-strip albums, written and illustrated by Belgian writer and illustrator Hergé, featuring young reporter Tintin as a hero. ... Year 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Tintin and the Picaros (Tintin et les Picaros) is one of The Adventures of Tintin, a series of classic comic-strip albums, written and illustrated by Belgian writer and illustrator Hergé, featuring young reporter Tintin as a hero. ... Year 1976 Pick up sticks(MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Adventures of Tintin (French: ) is a series of Belgian comic books created by Belgian artist Hergé, the pen name of Georges Remi (1907–1983). ... Georges Prosper Remi (May 22, 1907 – March 3, 1983), better known by the pen name Hergé, was a Belgian comics writer and artist. ... Tintin and Snowy (original French language names: Tintin et Milou), a journalist and his canine companion, are a pair of adventurers who travel around the world in The Adventures of Tintin, a series of comic books drawn and written by the Belgian cartoonist Georges Remi, better known as Hergé. The...

Storyline

Tintin, Captain Haddock and Calculus are on their way to Sydney for an international conference on space exploration. While their flight makes a refueling stop in Jakarta, they unexpectedly meet their old friend Piotr Skut (see The Red Sea Sharks for back story), who is now the chief pilot for eccentric millionaire Laszlo Carreidas. A short time earlier, the Captain had erroneously taken the somewhat disheveled Carreidas for a tramp and surreptitiously slipped him a five-dollar bill (which later is taken by the oblivious Professor Calculus, making the millionaire laugh for the first time in years). When introduced to Carreidas, the Captain inadvertently shakes the hand of the millionaire's secretary, the tall, aloof Spalding. Captain Haddock (Capitaine Haddock) Captain Archibald Haddock (Capitaine Archibald Haddock) is a character in the comic book series The Adventures of Tintin. ... Professor Calculus (Professeur Tournesol) Spoiler warning: Professor Cuthbert Calculus (Professeur Tryphon Tournesol, literally Professor Tryphonius Sunflower) is a fictional character in the series The Adventures of Tintin. ... This article is about the metropolitan area in Australia. ... Jakarta (also DKI Jakarta), formerly known as Sunda Kalapa, Jayakarta, Batavia and Djakarta is the capital and largest city of Indonesia. ... Skut Piotr Skut (Piotr Szut) is a character from The Adventures of Tintin series of classic comic books drawn and written by Hergé. He is an eyepatch-wearing Estonian pilot and radio expert, who appears in two albums: The Red Sea Sharks and Flight 714. ... The Red Sea Sharks (Coke en stock), is the nineteenth of The Adventures of Tintin, a series of classic comic-strip albums written and illustrated by Hergé, featuring young reporter Tintin as a hero. ... A rich business tycoon, he is kidnapped by Rastapopulous along with his new Jet in Flight 714. Tintin and his friends are also unwillingly dragged into this net. ...

Unable to politely refuse Carreidas's offer of a ride on his prototype private jet, Tintin and his friends join the millionaire on the way to Sydney. Carreidas plays Battleship with the Captain, defeating him repeatedly by cheating with a hidden closed-circuit television camera and monitor. Unbeknownst to Carreidas and the others, Spalding and two of the pilots have been recruited to hijack the plane and bring it to a deserted island called Pulau-Pulau Bompas in the Celebes Sea. Skut is not involved in the plot, and so he becomes a prisoner too. After a rough landing, our friends are escorted out of the plane, and a terrified Snowy breaks out of Tintin's arms and runs off. Armed guards shoot at him, and a mortified Tintin takes him for dead. This article is about the metropolitan area in Australia. ... pencil and paper game version The game Battleship is a game played by two people. ... Hijackers inside flightdeck of TWA Flight 847 Aircraft hijacking (also known as skyjacking and aircraft piracy) is the take-over of an aircraft, by a person or group, usually armed. ... Celebes Sea on its northern border. ... Tintin and Snowy (original French language names: Tintin et Milou), a journalist and his canine companion, are a pair of adventurers who travel around the world in The Adventures of Tintin, a series of comic books drawn and written by the Belgian cartoonist Georges Remi, better known as Hergé. The...

A moment or two later, to Tintin's further shock, it turns out that the mastermind of the plot is none other than the evil Rastapopoulos, who declares that since "it's a bore to stop being a millionaire," it would be easier to simply take Carreidas's fortune. Accordingly, he has hatched an elaborate scheme to kidnap Carreidas and extract his Swiss bank account number. Captain Haddock's corrupt old nemesis, Allan, is working as Rastapopoulos's henchman. As for Tintin, the Captain and Calculus, Rastapopulous actually had no idea they would be accompanying the crotchety millionaire, but is nonetheless delighted to have the opportunity to exact revenge, and makes it quite evident that a very grim fate awaits our friends. Rastapopoulos, in cowboy outfit from Flight 714 Roberto Rastapopoulos (Greek Ροβέρτος Ρασταπόπουλος) from The Adventures of Tintin series of classic comic books drawn and written by Hergé, is a Greek American tycoon (also known under the fake name Marquis di Gorgonzola); he was apparently partly inspired by the Greek shipping tycoon Onassis. ...

Everyone is bound and held in Japanese World War II-era bunkers. Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... A bunker is a defensive warfare fortification to protect oneself. ...

Meanwhile, Rastapopoulos takes a defiant Carreidas to another World War II-era bunker and has him strapped to a chair, to be subjected to the tender mercies of the malevolent Dr. Krollspell (a name possibly alluding to Adolf Hitler's quack doctor, Theodor Morell--"Kroll" is also the name of the Berlin Opera House where the Nazi Reichstag met after the Reichstag fire). The corrupt doctor injects the millionaire with truth serum, so as to enable Rastapopulous to pry Carreidas's Swiss bank account number out of him. Unfortunately for Rastapopoulos, this plan quickly flounders. For Carreidas proves more than willing to tell the truth--about everything except the Swiss bank account. To Rastapopulous's fury, Carreidas launches into long disquisitions about his greedy, unscrupulous nature, boasting how he first stole a pear in 1910, at the age of four; shamed both his grandfather and his great-aunt to death; and has generally led a life of perfidy. Realizing the serum is defective, Rastapopulous becomes enraged and accidentally injects himself with the serum, becoming intoxicated. He too recounts hideous deeds in a boasting manner, calling himself "the devil incarnate". This angers the still drugged Carreidas, who begins an argument wherein both of the two men boast, rage, and quarrel over which one is the more evil. From what Rastapopoulos says under the serum's influence, Krollspell realizes that the crime boss intends to betray and murder him, not reward him as promised. Hitler redirects here. ... Theodor (Theo) Gilbert Morell (July 22, 1886 – May 26, 1948) was German dictator Adolf Hitlers personal physician. ... The Reichstag fire was a pivotal event in the establishment of Nazi Germany. ... Truth Serum is an independent comic book series created, written and drawn by author Jonathan Adams. ... // Toxic and Intoxicated redirect here – toxic has other uses, which can be found at Toxicity (disambiguation); for the state of being intoxicated by alcohol see Drunkenness. ...

With the help of Snowy, who is not dead after all, Tintin and his friends manage to escape the bunker they are held prison in and find the bunker, high on the volcano, where Carreidas is held prisoner. Tintin captures Krollspell and Rastapopulous and escorts them to lower grounds. However, the serum wears off and Rastapopulous escapes, despite Krollspell's warnings; the doctor is released afterwards and continues to accompany Tintin and Haddock, watching the still irritable Carreidas.

Later, they discover, thanks to a "voice" Tintin is hearing, a hidden entrance to a statue-filled cave. Knowing that they are in danger, as Rastapopulous is gathering the locals to pursue and kill them, they decide to enter the cave and they discover a large path, leading to the inside of the volcano. They enter the core of the volcano by triggering a mechanism. Rastapopulous and allies are not far behind, but they can not find the trigger mechanism which give them entrance to the core, so they use explosives to make their way.

Penetrating deeper into the volcano, Tintin and friends meet a strange man, Mik Kanrokitoff, a writer for magazine Space Week, who wears a transmitter on his ear and speaks with a heavy Russian/East European accent (he is the voice that has guided Tintin to the cave in which they are). He immediately notes that they are all in great danger, because the explosion has made the volcano unstable and it will soon erupt. They follow Kanrokitoff, who has the power to influence their minds, as he knows exactly where to escape. It is becoming hotter as they find their way out of the core of the volcano, and there is even a flow of lava that is threatening them, but they find a way up that leads to an exit. Carreidas pushes Haddock off the stairs, but fortunately Haddock grabs onto a stalagmite, narrowly escaping an imminent death of falling into fresh lava. The strange fellow uses his mind trick to calm Carreidas down. The Adventures of Tintin sports a vast array of secondary and tertiary characters. ... The Witchs Finger in the Carlsbad Caverns A stalagmite (from the Greek stalagma (Σταλαγμίτης), drop or drip) is a type of speleothem that rises from the floor of a limestone cave due to the dripping of mineralized solutions and the deposition of calcium carbonate. ...

Soon they find the way out and Kanrokitoff puts them all under his hypnosis. Kanrokitoff uses his transmitter, and apparent psychic powers, to summon a flying saucer, piloted by unseen aliens with whom Kanrokitoff is apparently familiar. The hypnotised group climb up a retractable ladder and board the saucer, which deposits them in a rubber dinghy, exchanging them for Allan, Spalding, Rastapopulous and the pilots, who are whisked away in the saucer. The group - including Krollspell, who is, however, dropped at his institute in Cairo - awakes from hypnosis and next thing they remember is that they are safe, but they cannot remember what happened to them. The party is eventually rescued, but only Snowy, who cannot speak, has any recollection of their alien abduction. Professor Charcot was well-known for showing, during his lessons at the Salpêtrière hospital, hysterical woman patients – here, his favorite patient, Blanche (Marie) Wittman, supported by Joseph BabiÅ„ski. ... UFO redirects here. ... Nickname: Egypt: Site of Cairo (top center) Coordinates: , Government  - Governor Dr. Abdul Azim Wazir Area  - City 214 km²  (82. ...

Missing pages

Hergé made an error when drawing the story: it was meant, like all Tintin albums, to be 62 pages long, but when he finished, it was found to be 64 pages long. Hergé's solution was to remove two pages from the end of the story, which covered the rescue of Tintin's group from the erupting volcano.

The omission meant that the reader now sees a cliffhanger. At the bottom of one page a reporter on a seaplane watching the raft holding Tintin's group exclaims (in the English translation), "They'll be boiled alive like lobsters! We've got to do something." On the next page ("Thousands of miles away, several days later"), the story switches to Jolyon Wagg's living room as his family watches a TV interview of Tintin and associates. For other uses, see Cliffhanger (disambiguation). ... Jolyon Wagg in his usual jovial mood Jolyon Wagg (in the original French version: Séraphin Lampion) is a character from The Adventures of Tintin series of classic comic books drawn and written by Hergé. He is an intensely gregarious, simple, and overbearing man who often enters the story by...

Influences

• The story seems to have been influenced by the "ancient astronauts" literature popular at the time, in addition to the mythology of a hidden ancient city in the South Pacific.

• Laszlo Carreidas is based on aircraft manufacturer Marcel Dassault,^[1] although he clearly also displays some characteristics of another aviation legend, Howard Hughes (hypochondria, obsession with hygiene, hypercompetitiveness for example).

• The prototype Carreidas 160, Carreidas swing-wing private jet, is a remarkable piece of design by Roger Leloup, at the time an assistant of Hergé Studios and later creator of comic strip character Yoko Tsuno. Though not based on any real aircraft, it does have strikingly similar design features shared with a number of different contemporary aircraft. The jet's swing-wings appear to be directly modeled after those of the F-111. The undercarriage pods are similar to those of Andrei Tupolev's jet transports. The tri-jet formula, merely an idea then, was implemented in private jet aircraft in the Dassault Falcon 50/500 series. Their intake geometry is reminiscent of the Rockwell B-1 bomber, a prototype at that stage. Other noteworthy features are the afterburning jet engines, shared with the Concorde, and a high set T-tail whose design is similar to the F-101 Voodoo.

• Significantly, modern concepts of supersonic private jets also have triple-jet engines as their basis. Many aircraft designers who review the drawings of Carriedas 160 often remark on how very competent and finished the design is, and its practicality has been demonstrated in the form of fan-built free-flight and R/C models whose flying characteristics demonstrate a docile, swift transport which although never real, embodies the best in modern aeronautical design.^{[citation needed]}

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Trivia

• There are several use of real Bahasa Indonesia in this book, one notable dialogue depicts two of Tintin captors chatting while on duty about a particular Indonesian cuisine originated from Java, sambel bajak (ground chilli sauce with shrimp paste).

• Karaboudjan, an avant-garde metal project band (one of Dan Swanö's many side projects), released a demo, Sbrodj, which is inspired by the Tintin stories. The first track from Sbrodj is entitled Plan 714 Till Sydney, which is the Swedish name of the comic book. Interestingly enough, Karaboudjan is also the name of the ship where Tintin and Captain Haddock first meet.

• A Proboscis monkey (Nasalis larvatus) appears briefly in the book. Allan seizes this opportunity to comment on and laugh at the similarity between the monkey's and Rastapopoulos's oversize noses, wondering out loud, "Reminds me of someone. Now, who can it [be?]...", until he realizes, to his horror, that Rastapopoulos is standing right behind him.
• The submachine guns used by Tintin, his friends and their enemies do not appear to be based on real weapons. For example, the drum magazine on Haddock's gun is strangely positioned on top of the main weapon, which would hinder aiming and the feeding of bullets. This is curious since much of the background, cars, ships, aircraft and other items used in Tintin's adventures were based on extensive research. Tintin's gun appears to be based on the MP 40, though it lacks the vertical magazine. Some of the Sondonesians are armed with Thompson submachine guns.

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Notes

1. ^ Juventud (Spanish publisher of Tintin) (Spanish)

External links

• Flight 714 at Tintinologist.org