Warbird Information Exchange

Greeting's one and all !
I have a ? Dose anybody know happen to Airplanes that were in the Movie The Blue Max ? I had heard that some of the German planes ended up in Texas . Are any of them Air Worthy ?

As Always I have really injoyed reading the posting on the WIX Hanger Wish I had found it sooner.

Glen

P.S The B-23 Dragon Should be restored to Fly it was always a Dream of mine to see it fly when I was a member of the Dragon Sqad in the CAF in the Eightys .

I think one or two of the Pfalz's are in the Omaka Collection in New Zealand.
Some of the planes were in Denton, TX, but I haven't heard much about them recently.
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."

The Morane Saulnier flown by George Peppard is in Chino.

Both are there. One in the museum with a section from the movie, playing above, plus the other flew at the recent (excellent) airshow.

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James K

"Switch on the underwater landing lights"
Emilio Largo, Thunderball.

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Omaka also has one of the Fokkers from the movie.







Cheers,

Brett

One of the Triplanes from the film belongs to Robs Lamplough in England (also owns the blue-nose combat vet P-51 "Miss Helen").
The Caudron Luciole observation aircraft is with Ken Kellett, who works for Kermit in Florida, and one of the other Fokker D.VIIs is in the Stampe Museum in Antwerp, Belgium http://www.stampe.be/index_uk.htm .
The third D.VII is in the Southern Museum of Flight in Birmingham, Alabama.
Most of them were in Denton, TX in the '80s, then went to Frank Ryder in Alabama, then were sold off and dispersed after Frank's death. The silver Pfalz and the D.VII now in NZ belonged for a long time to Javier Arango in California. I got to fly them while Javier owned them, the D.VII was a nice flying machine, the Pfalz not so much.