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GUNSTAR from the movie “The Last Star Fighter”
Fun topic, lots of interesting choices, here’s mine:
“the body” B-17 from “The war Lover”. Steve Mcqueen & Robert Wagner’s plane.
F9F panther of “Lt Brubaker” in “the Bridges at Toko Ri”.William Holden’s plane.
got the Monogram kit, hope to build it someday…[:I]
regards,
Steve
Since this one seems to have attracted the movie buffs, and mention of that Richrad Basehart film has tripped my query switch… What was the film featuring a crashed
B-24? in a desert? where it turned out that the crew, waiting around to be rescued, were in fact ghosts? was it sole survivor?
All I remember really is that if they left the wreck they disappeared.
Pete
I can’t believe this hasn’t been mentioned, yet . . . it’s got to be the X-wing. As cool as all the real planes are, I’ve wanted to fly an X-wing as long as I can remember!
-Jonathan
The Su-22’s from the movie XXX with Vim Diesel were used quite nicely! As well, the Naboo Fighter from Star Wars is quite nice…
I remember Penny, too! [}:)] She was one of my first boyhood crushes!
The flying car on Bob Cummings was real, they only made a few, and I have serious doubts that it was worth a s*** as a car or an aircraft, but what an interesting concept! Can’t remember who made it, but I remember seeing one on static display years ago. There was even a model kit (very rudimentary) that I put togethr as a kid. I suppose that it would be a serious collector’s item now!
Now, if we could just invent an economy car that transformed into an F-15…[:D]
Brian [C):-)]
Ah, from GI Joe, the Cobra Fighter, called Cobra Rattler which was a blue VTOL version of the A-10, but with the engines on the wings, one in the centre between the tail and a rear cockpit/turret…very cool actually…see it here!
http://www.yojoe.com/vehicles/84/rattler/
Cheers
Milan
I remember that one too. Somebody does in fact show up to inspect the wreck, but since the crew were all ghosts, nobody saw them. Up until then though, the crew and the audience thought they were survivors. As far as the title goes, I couldn’t say one way or the other.
Tora-Tora-Tora
Thirty Seconds over Tokyo
Hellcats of the Navy
Hells Angels
Bat-21
And did anyone ever notice that the B-52 in Dr. Strangelove cast the shadow of a B-17?
what about the pink banana chopper from rip tide???
matt
what about that pink helocopter from Rip Tide???
matt
I remember the ghost crew around the wreckage of a B-25, passing for a B-24. As I remember, the bodies of the crew were discovered and shipped home, the ghosts disappeared, till there was was one ghost whose body was under the tail of the wreck. He is last seen sitting by the wreckage thowing a baseball up in the air, all alone.
I have some Sky-King episodes on VHS tapes that ordered through an aviation magazine. About the sounds of big radial engines as on the B-26, I recorded on digital video, at the Palm Springs Air Museum, a B-26, start up, and full power run up for several minutes. Also took my digital camera on board the B-25 and some sweet sounds. If that ain’t enough, I rode several times with my trusty camera on the B-17, Miss Angelia, based at the museum, once with Paul Burke, of 12O’Clock High,the T.V. series of the mid-sixties. Got more neat footage of various WW2 birds starting up, taxing out and taking off.
“Sky King” , I loved that plane.
What about “A Wing and A Prayer”
And “Catch 22”!
I can’t remember the name of the movie but, Burgess Meredith (post Rockie), played the part of an evil fighter pilot flying around in Super Sabre that was painted flat black and it looked awesome.
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X-Men Blackbird
Flying Wing from Raiders of the Lost Ark
Firefox from you guessed it
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(I don’t know if it counts, but the Fell Beasts from Lord of the rings)
A little off-topic, but to answer the question, the movie was, in fact Sole Survivor http://imdb.com/title/tt0065007/ from 1970…
Plot Summary: A B-25 bomber is discovered in the middle of the (Libian) Lybian desert and an Air Force investigation team is called in to examine it…
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As a big “Sky King” fan I just have to chip in my effort at aircraft ID.
From 1951 to 1956 Sky King (Kirby Grant) flew a Cessna Bobcat T-50. from 1957 to the end of the series he piloted a Cessna 310B. Someone mentioned a Piper Navajo. Sky King never flew it as a regular mount. I think he used it when the ‘Songbird’ was dinged or “planeknapped” in a few episodes. I belieive the Piper was an airfield “hack” or belonged to a friend.
For pure cinematic impact my vote is split between the slo-mo P-51 in “Empire of the Sun” and the scene from “Bridges at Toko Ri” as Mickey Rooney came in between the trees in his Sikorsky to attempt a pick up of William Holden. A distant second would be the great B-47 shots from “Strategic Air Command”.