The movie "Avatar" and it's relationship to warbirds

[DenverWarbirdFan]

Did anyone know about this? (excerpt from: http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/11/f ... cameron/3/)

"Sony agreed to establish a new line of cameras, and, using the prototype, Pace set to work. After three months, he had fitted the lenses into a rig that allowed an operator to precisely control the 3-D imaging. He figured they’d start with a simple test using an actor or two, but Cameron had other ideas. He asked Pace to install the gear in a rented World War II-era P-51 fighter and then sent him up in a B-17 Flying Fortress. Cameron jumped in behind the pilot of the P-51 and once airborne started filming while the pilot fired .50-caliber machine gun blanks at Pace’s B-17. “It was my first taste of what Jim considers ‘testing,’” Pace says."

Pretty cool if you ask me

[Django]

Who has a P-51 capable of firing blanks?

[K5DH]

Which Mustang and Fortress did they use?!?!

[RMAllnutt]

That's an interesting story.... I would love to find out more. Just went to see the film this afternoon... wow!!! You have to see it in 3D, it was very impressive visually speaking. I can see why Cameron would choose to use a P-51 and B-17 to get an idea of what aerial manouvering would be like first hand.

Now getting ready to be hit by the blizzard... hope the power doesn't go out on us... Take care everyone out there!

Cheers,
Richard