MASTERS OF THE AIR

[ErrolC]

Wonder if they have the extra wide B17 fuselage interior shots that seem to crop up in movies?

Funnily enough, an over-scale movie prop is being converted to an exhibit at Classic Flyers, Tauranga, NZ
https://rnzaf.proboards.com/thread/2893 ... sic-flyers

[Saville]

The article states:

"The application for filming states that the production wants to ‘recreate the airbase on the airfield’.

It goes on: “There will be no flying, although the runway will be used to film aircraft landing and there will also be aerial photography over the runway of planes taxiing.”

So no flying suggests there's no need to contact aircraft owners

[FuryFB11]

Though surely active/period aircraft will have to be used for landing and taxying sequences?

[Boghopper]

Authentic control tower & fire truck shed already constructed, full size 17 now standing on its feet, some chap has supplied around 300 cycles & some locals are getting cheesed off even before filming has started.

[p51]

Recent shot of the set. Looks good!

[JOMiller]

Cheesed off ??

[wendovertom]

Cheesed off ??

Irked or pissed off

Tom P.

[p51]

I've read that filming is either going on right now or will at any moment:

[Chris Brame]

Hmm. From David Osborne's list (spoiler alert?):

42-5867 Del Long Beach 2/4/43; Kearney 15/4/43; Wendover 2/5/43; Dow Fd 27/6/43; Ass 350BS/100BG [LN-O] Thorpe Abbotts 30/5/43; MIA Regensburg 17/8/43 w/Roy Claytor, cp-Ray Nutting, ettg-John Burgin, ro-Bill Quinn, wg-Chas Bailey (5EVD); btg-Bill Hinton, wg-Edmund Musante{chute caught on tail} (2KIA); n-Oscar Amison, b-Ken Lorch{originally evaded but caught eight months later}, tg-Cliff Starkey (3POW); flak KO’d two engines, cr Langerloo, five miles E of Hasselt, Bel. MACR 678. ALICE FROM DALLAS.

42-30064 Del Cheyenne 5/4/43; Kearney 15/4/43; Wendover 2/5/43; Hill 22/5/43; Dow Fd 30/5/43; Ass 418BS/100BG [LD-T] Thorpe Abbotts 9/6/43; MIA La Rochelle 16/9/43 w/Bob Wolff, cp-Chas Stuart, n-Larry McConnell, b-Fred White, ettg-Carl Simon, ro-Ira Bardman, btg-Bill Casebolt, wg-Art Eggleston, wg-Willis Brown, tg-Alf Clark (10POW); flak and e/a KO’d engine, cr in Atlantic off Ile Madame, 12 miles S of La Rochelle, Fr; MACR 647. WILD CARGO.

Looks like they're making an effort to be accurate?

[wendovertom]

OH - I am SO going to beg for those airframe movie props once filming is done since the originals BOTH would have been here at Wendover Airfield!

Tom P.

[p51]

OH - I am SO going to beg for those airframe movie props once filming is done since the originals BOTH would have been here at Wendover Airfield!

I'd imagine there's a line of folks there in the UK ahead of you, as plenty of folks there would give their left... whatever to get their hands on one of these.

[Chris Brame]

OH - I am SO going to beg for those airframe movie props once filming is done since the originals BOTH would have been here at Wendover Airfield!

Tom P.

Hope your museum will draw up a proposal and promote, promote, promote! (And CC to Tom Hanks.)
Especially if you have hangar space and can keep it out of the elements. You guys deserve it!

[Thomas_Mac]

OH - I am SO going to beg for those airframe movie props once filming is done since the originals BOTH would have been here at Wendover Airfield!

Tom P.

Hope your museum will draw up a proposal and promote, promote, promote! (And CC to Tom Hanks.)
Especially if you have hangar space and can keep it out of the elements. You guys deserve it!

Your best bet would be to type that proposal up on a typewriter and maybe send one along as a gift with your submission.
https://typewriters.com/blogs/blog/type ... -tom-hanks

[p51]

it's killing me I can't post it, but I found a shot taken of one of the B-17 mockups sitting with the side peppered with light flak and maybe MG rounds. It's very well done.
I can't upload a photo as big as it is, and neither my cell nor my work computer can simply resize the thing. Arrgh!
If you want to see shots of them, someone' posting photos from the set here, if you're a member:
https://www.therpf.com/forums/threads/t ... st-5196007

[Mark Allen M]

Here you go P51



And ..... just for a comparison. Here's Memphis Belle from the 1989 Movie.