Real Hangar Flying

[Seafury1]

...One of the AeroSport guys who worked at Cal-Aero in 1941 (Rick Sepe), told me in about 1977, that it was R. L. Scott in Mantz's Boeing 100...

...taxied with the tail up through all four hangars...took off leaving the last one...

Doubt it, you could hardly walk from one end of Aerosport to the other, Supe had alot of stuff in there. And there was a dividing wall between MARC and Bruce Goeslings Unlimited Aircraft in Hangar 4.

I could be wrong as I was 8 years old then, but that was my play ground.

[bdk]

The movie was filmed in 1941... There was no Aerosport then! Are you still hung over from the wedding?

...One of the AeroSport guys who worked at Cal-Aero in 1941 (Rick Sepe), told me in about 1977, that it was R. L. Scott in Mantz's Boeing 100...

...taxied with the tail up through all four hangars...took off leaving the last one...

Doubt it, you could hardly walk from one end of Aerosport to the other, Supe had alot of stuff in there. And there was a dividing wall between MARC and Bruce Goeslings Unlimited Aircraft in Hangar 4.

I could be wrong as I was 8 years old then, but that was my play ground.

[rpellicciotti]

One of the most famous "hangar fly-throughs" is in the James Bond movie - "Octopussy". In the scene, "Corkey" Fornof (who has one of the more entertaining airshow performances going right now) flies a BD-5J "Microjet" through a hangar while being chased by a missile. The missile blows up in the hangar and "007" safely evades the danger flying out the hangar as it explodes.

True, but the plane didn't actually fly through the hangar. They had a non-flying BD-5J mounted on a convertible with a pole. If you watch closely, as it "flies' through the hangar, you can see the pole .
They tried to disguise it by placing lots of objects in the foreground. It also allowed them to put Roger Moore ini the cockpit for those shots.
It worked well though.
I also liked the fight on the outside of the C-45!
Jerry

Corky did fly the airplane through the hangar. There is film of it. It happened so fast that the director decided to film the BD-5 on a stick and edit it into the flying airplane going in and coming out of the hangar.

[Seafury1]

...One of the AeroSport guys who worked at Cal-Aero in 1941 (Rick Sepe), told me in about 1977, that it was R. L. Scott in Mantz's Boeing 100...

...taxied with the tail up through all four hangars...took off leaving the last one...

Doubt it, you could hardly walk from one end of Aerosport to the other, Supe had alot of stuff in there. And there was a dividing wall between MARC and Bruce Goeslings Unlimited Aircraft in Hangar 4.

I could be wrong as I was 8 years old then, but that was my play ground.

Wow, I skipped right over the "1941" date went to the "1977" date and opened my mouth! My bad, not wedding hangover, the fact that I'm in Bahrain, and have to go to Diego Garcia, may be twisting me up. Then a 35 hour commute home right after I get there! Thanks for the correction Brandon, I can count on you

[Seafury1]

...One of the AeroSport guys who worked at Cal-Aero in 1941 (Rick Sepe), told me in about 1977, that it was R. L. Scott in Mantz's Boeing 100...

...taxied with the tail up through all four hangars...took off leaving the last one...

Doubt it, you could hardly walk from one end of Aerosport to the other, Supe had alot of stuff in there. And there was a dividing wall between MARC and Bruce Goeslings Unlimited Aircraft in Hangar 4.

I could be wrong as I was 8 years old then, but that was my play ground.

Wow, I skipped right over the "1941" date went to the "1977" date and opened my mouth! My bad, not wedding hangover, the fact that I'm in Bahrain, and have to go to Diego Garcia, may be twisting me up. Then a 35 hour commute home right after I get there! Thanks for the correction Brandon, I can count on you

[Punisher05]

It's probably just local folklore, but I remember some of the New Orleans history books in Jr High talking about the Huey Long bridge. According to them, early pilots used to do loops through it so the city gov't ran cables through the arches to discourage the practice.

That was in the days before NOTAMs and obstruction lights too, if it's to be believed!

[Old Shep]

Re: Corky flying the BD thru the hangar for the Bond movie. At the CAF Airsho this year I spoke at length with Corky about the stunt. One of the Navy F/A-18 Hornet demo pilots was sitting with us and he asked about the pressure wave and how they knew to open every window and door in the hangar and limit the airplane's speed. Corky said he wouldn't have even thought of it (because of the big hangar, little airplane, what could possibly go wrong) had he not noticed years earlier when he flew his dad's Mustang under the bridge in New Orleans (probably the Huey Long bridge mentioned earlier). He and a college friend (Corky used the Mustang to commute to college!) were out flying around and his friend in the back says, "Have you ever flown under that bridge?" To which Corky said no, but why not? Corky dives for the bridge, at 300 knots, levels out about ten feet off the water and right as they cross under the bridge a tremendous pressure wave bounces the Mustang almost into the water! From that experience Corky learned about the amount of air being displaced by an airplane moving thru a confined space, so when they did the Toshiba commercial and later the Bond movie, Corky did indeed consult lots of math and physics profs to figure out volume and the square footage needed for air to be pushed out of the building. He told me it was a piece of cake except on the last one, when he did push up the speed a tad and felt that pressure wave begin to move the BD....said he backed off the throttle rapidly!
Great guy, Corky, with stories for every occasion.
Old Shep

[Joe Scheil]

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