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Hey guys....I just watched John Wayne in the old WWII flick " Flying Tigers "...I was puzzled by something I noticed as I viewed the take off scenes. I saw that the Duke taxied his P-40 ( at least I think all these planes were P-40's??) the screen view showed that it had some type of twin large air scoops or gun mounts over the engine; however, when the plane took off and the camera shot showed the plane airborne, the " scoops " ( or maybe machine gun mounts?) were missing. This happened each time the planes were shown taxiing, followed by a "cut" transition to the " in the air" shot. So....do you guys think this was a movie blooper, or was this necessary for purposes of filming the scene; (i.e., maybe the scoops were some type of cooling device on the plane to help keep the engines cool during the taxi scenes?). Clue me in....this is driving me nuts now each time I watch this classic..... Robert (Iowahawkeye)
Those P-40s were just horrible replicas. Not even toy quality LOL Not sure what is worse -- those replicas or having a P-40 doing a knife edge through two hangers in Pearl Harbor LOL
Funny movie. Those taxiing P-40's were real, but filmed at Curtiss in Buffalo and some sort of prototype.
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The P-40's on the ground were movie props with Ford flathead V-8's driving the propellers. Read Wiki.
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The answer is that John Wayne would never fit in a P-40. He was Mack truck.
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Could have been worse, like the heavy use of stock footage in "Midway" cos it "looked cool". This included a climactic crash on deck & subsequent fireball of an F9F Panther, which crashed again in The Hunt For Red October!
Phil_H Could have been worse, like the heavy use of stock footage in "Midway" cos it "looked cool". This included a climactic crash on deck & subsequent fireball of an F9F Panther, which crashed again in The Hunt For Red October!
And don't forget the same footage (as well as some scenes from the movie "Midway") were used often on the TV show "The Black Sheep".
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The scene showing Charlton Heston bringing in his shot up plane, I believe they used film footage of 4-6 different aircraft before he wound up in the jet hitting the flight deck. Guess I will have to count them next time I watch that turkey.
On the bench: So many hanger queens.
The movie/tv bloopers that really bothers me are the documentaries that show SBDs bombing Pearl Harbor, lifted from the old John Ford movie :-( Even PBS does it!
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I love movie airplane bloopers
F84 migs in "the hunters"
In Midway......the scene where the nose hits the deck s d rolls....I read that the pilot survived
Midway also features scenes pulled out of Tora! Tora! Tora! You can see battleship spires in the background when some fake Zeroes are coming in to attack. Only thing, Midway was not a navy harbor.
The use of yellow-painted F-86's as stand-ins for Migs in the movie "Saberjet" which was filmed at Nellis in 1952. The sun baked the yellow paint on, and the planes had to be stripped to remove it.
I like the movie fighter squadron from 1948 the U.S. are flying P-47D's and the german's are flying P-51D's painted over all gray
Nick.
The best use of movie footage actually goes to China News Agency.
They used footage from "Top Gun" where Maverick takes out the last "MIG-28" with a missile in an actual news report that showed China's J-10 fighter "In action".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bj32BjuSWIQ
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