Quiz: What airplane did John Wayne fly in the movie "Hellfighters?"

Modeling Subjects Aircraft
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This non-sensical Monday topic is explained by the following:

  1. Saw the movie (again) last night. One of my favorites.

  2. Always liked the look of the plane and am wondering what it is, so I can see if one exists somewhere as a kit.

  3. Slow day at work 'cuz I was up too late last night watching “Hellfighters” and I’m tired. [:D][:D][:D]

Anywho, in the movie, “Hellfighters” The Duke plays an oil well fire “put-er outer” loosely base on Red Adair. Twice, his company owned private jet is shown. Tried to find it in my Jane’s Guide, but was in a hurry.

Here is the description:

Business jet;
swept wing;
4 engines all located on the tail, two each side;
stabilizers located middle of the rudder, above the engines, but is not a T-tail;
looked like 5 -6 passenger windows each side;
each wing had a “sponson” mid wing which maybe held the landing gear.

First person with the correct answer gets the Col. Flagg award, “Knowing everything about nothing.” And, since I don’t know the correct answer, everyone is a winner!!! PS: Extra credit for knowing who Col. Flagg is.

As always, Thank You for shopping at K-Mart and Vote Early, Vote Often!

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The plane is a Lockheed Jetstar (Death Star for those who worked them) or the AF version is C-140, this plane was also in 007’s Gold Finger when James Bond offed Mr. Goldfinger in the end of the movie,
I’ve worked on a few Jstars when I was an Airframe Mechanic at an FBO in Lincoln, Nebraska about 5 years ago
And I guess I’m also a MASH nut too

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72cuda: All I gotta say to you is: “Newman!”

You answered all correctly (I assume the plane is correct) within 26 minutes. My evil plan (?) was foiled. (I really gotta start drinking decaf…)

Side issue, why did they call them the “Death Star?” The obvious reason or just black humor amongst you Maint types?

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I just checked with Prof. Sniffinglu and he confirmed the information presented by 72cuda.

Anybody have any recommendations, good-bad-indifferent, on a kit?

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Colonel Flagg… The crazy CIA officer on M.A.S.H.

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Ah, I see subfixer spent some of his misguided youth watching too much TV. [:p]

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of course Col. Flagg was the funniest recurring charachter on MASH second to Klinger.

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[#ditto][yeah]

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mikeym_us: Dude, you are so right! His episodes are some of the best ones, as far as I’m concerned. That guy just wasn’t right. [8D]

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actually the actor who played Col. Flagg wasn’t right in the head[:p] do you remember him from other shows.

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Do you know who the actor was who played Colonel Flagg on MASH–and where he is now???

Bonus points for this one…

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Col Flagg was played by Ed Winter and unfortunatly he passed away in 2001. One of my other obsessions is obscure actors and the IMDB website is a great source of info.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0935719/

I still remember the scene where he announced he was like the wind and nobody saw him leave. Then jumped through the window and Hawkeye looks out and says the wind has broken his leg.

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Good job there, dhuff–he died of Parkinson’s actually. I looked him up on the “Dead People Server”.

The answer to “where is he today?” Well, I s’pose it depends on how he lived his life…

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rockythegoat;
the main reason we called them Death Stars they where almost a Black Hole for tools and parts, I lost plenty of Cleaco temp fasteners to them, and I found a couple of wrenches while doing an “A” inspection on one

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Cool! Thanks for following up!

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rockythegoat;
And another reason was that they have so many things to hit your head on, like the engine nacelles when getting out of the aft avionics compartment

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Lockheed Jetstar II (L-1329-II).

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Great. [sigh] This question was answered 12 years ago.

Check the dates before you dig up old posts that have already been answered and are loooong dead.

Not any kind of problem, of course, but if the question was answered and you have nothing to contribute that is new, then there really is no reason to dig it up.

Just Saiyin lol.