Red Tails - Filming

[mkxiv]

Looks like things are getting close;

http://www.flugzeugforum.de/forum/showt ... 468&page=7

http://www.planes.cz/cs/photo/1051393/c ... n_res=1024

[mike furline]

They are filming at an airfield near Prague right now.

Regards,

[TJJ]

The P40 arrived back at North Weald on Friday afternoon. Still in the temporary scheme.

[Mark V]

Yes all filming with live aircraft was done last week (2 x P-40 & 3 x P-51). The B-17 'Pink Lady' was due to arrive on the Friday but I had left by then.

[Russ Matthews]

P-40s and P-51s -- that's promising. At least we won't have a repeat of that bizarre scene in HBO's "Tuskegee Airmen" where Laurence Fishburne's character got all excited about being assigned a Mustang -- the exact SAME plane he'd been flying earlier.

[Django]

Are there pics of the Mustangs? I can't view the pics in the first link.

[Jesse C.]

Are there pics of the Mustangs? I can't view the pics in the first link.

No, I can see anything either, it is one of those sign in only type of deals. but, this is the image on the second link just in case.

[JohnTerrell]

At the risk of posting links, I thought I should bring the following to attention, as there is some rather exciting home-footage of the filming underway on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QUYj2nNUdQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYN1Kzm3v8s

[Steve Nelson]

Are they using some full-scale mockups as well? In one of the home-movie shots it looked like two Mustangs in the air buzzing three more parked on the field.

SN

[Django]

thanks Jesse. I didn't see that P-51 shot earlier. When I clicked on that link, I saw a P-40. Weird.

Those youtube videos are awesome! I can't wait to watch them again at home with the volume cranked!

[Mark V]

Are they using some full-scale mockups as well? In one of the home-movie shots it looked like two Mustangs in the air buzzing three more parked on the field.

SN

Yes - there were around three mock-ups of each type and pretty hard to distinguish from the real thing from any distance.

[Mudge]

Great stuff on youtube. Wish the wind hadn't been so bad. Sure drowned out that beautiful sound.
By the way...if any of you watched those videos, and the supercharger "scream" didn't make the hair on your neck stand up, you need a different hobby.

Mudge the goose pimply

ps. Anyone know who's driving? Whoever it is, they gotta' have a ......."the size of the Statue of Liberty". (With apologies to Pvt. Reiben.):roll:

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[JohnTerrell]

By far my favorite part of those videos is the last segment of the first video - impossible to film such a sequence at any air show of today as a regular spectator, with the aircraft coming right at you! It has got to be a thrill even for the pilots, flying a three-ship formation, down on the deck, and in a period-looking-setting.

[bobbrunn]

That looks terrific.

[ZRX61]

impossible to film such a sequence at any air show of today as a regular spectator, with the aircraft coming right at you!

Tank bank at Duxford..