Warbird Information Exchange

What American cigarette commercials would look like today, if we still had 'em...

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All right, Mister Dorfmann, start pullin'!
Pilot: "Flap switch works hard in down position."
Mechanic: "Flap switch checked OK. Pilot needs more P.T." - Flight report, TB-17G 42-102875 (Hobbs AAF)

That's a gem of a commerical.

Obiviously the aboard footage is "Lady Lex". But anyone have a guess as to the underway shot? It could also be "Lady Lex" but prior to her 1991 Decomissioning.

Strange as it is this footage looks very very similar to the Corsair crash in the IMAX film Flyers.

Anybody else got any information?

Shay
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Semper Fortis

Ummm...does the Evergreen Museum know their Corsair crashed on a carrier deck for this ad? LOL!

Actually very creative...admirably done (despite it being for cigarettes) and that nurse could attend to me ANY time....

Mark

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Mark Morris

I was involved with the filming of this commercial. It was an almost 2 week long shoot on the Lexington. I was part of the team that built all of the models for the commercial and coordinated the aircraft. The flying Corsair is as mentioned the Evergreen machine flown by Bill Muszala. There were 4 models involved in the filming. 1 full sized fiberglass Corsair that was built onto a trolley for the skid scene. There were 2 1/6 scale model Corsairs for the tipping off of the carrier scene. There was a full sized "top half" of a Corsair built for the floating in the water scene.

Thanks for that info on the TV spot!
Where are those models and mock-ups now?
Jerry

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"Always remember that, when you enter the ocean or the forest, you are no longer at the top of the food chain."

I believe that the Lexington Museum still has all of the models or at least we gave them to them when we left.