Warbird Information Exchange

Check your local listings for Oct 15th as TCM is showing 'Toward the Unknown' starring Bill Holden as the washed up war hero/test pilot looking for redemption, pretty standard mid 50's plot but a chance to see the X-3, YF-102, and XB-51 as well as F-94's in action.

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Don't make me go get my flying monkeys-

Great film and some superb flying sequences! Thanks for the heads up!

Humm, October 14th. Somebody at AMC has been reading real history books for a change!!!
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."

Don't forget the cameo appearance by the XF-92A as a crashed experimental aircraft in the beginning of the film.

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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)

Don't see it.

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Cheers!

Lance Jones

Actually the movie is on TCM at 2:15 PM EDT on Monday, October 15th! Maybe the title line can be changed.

Great movie for showing mid-fifties aircraft at Edwards. Yeah the F-102 crashes and William Holden pulls Lloyd Nolan out of an XF-92!

and, on the 22nd TCM is showing 'Sky Giant' from 1938 starring Richard Dix and Harry Carey along with LOCKHEED 12's, STINSONS, arctic crashes, a great RKO 'B' airplane movie..


'fought Dix, Remember when Richard Dix tried to come in and take over?....'

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Don't make me go get my flying monkeys-

They've altered their schedule, I'm on it like a duck on a Junebug and thanx!!

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you mean the movie or it being on the schedule? TCM jiggered their schedule a bit since last week.

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Website dedicated to the movie with plane serial numbers:
http://www.bellx-2.com/ttu/index.html

Is Toward the Unknown the film where to test the escape capsule, they purposely eject it in flight...thus destroying an entire aircraft?
Come on, no one was ever that stupid....were they?

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Remember the vets, the wonderful planes they flew and their sacrifices for a future many of them did not live to see.

I think you are thinking about "Chained Lightning" with Humphrey Bogart.
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."

John,
Don't tell me you have some credability issues with the WILLIS JA-3, a jet powered prototype that had no inlets, or was it the fact that Raymond Massey was so smart that he figured out how to get a fabric covered aircraft to go supersonic?


Side bar interest point, the JA-3 was a P-39 heavily modified by Paul Mantz and Frank Tallmans outfit.

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The CAF's Lloyd Nolan??

The actor Lloyd Nolan. (Airport, Bataan, Guadalcanal Diary etc.)

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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."

thanks for the heads-up, guys. It just will fit into my schedule Monday.

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