Warbird Information Exchange

Coming back to Last flight of Noah's Ark, according to the IMDB site they list the following trivia:

"The Boeing B-29 Superfortress featured in the flying sequences was Fertile Myrtle, Air Force 45-21787, Navy BuNo 84029, Civil Registration N91329. From 1951 to 1956 it was used by the Navy and NACA to launch the Douglas D-558-II Skyrocket at Edwards Air Force Base, California. It is currently in the collection of the International Sport Aviation Museum in Lakeland, Florida. Four other partial B-29 Superfortresses were acquired from the China Lake Naval Weapons Center, California. One was used for interior shots at the Disney studio. Another was used for night sequences afloat in MGM's outdoor tank. The third was used for the crash site on the island and the fourth was made into the floating Noah's Ark. They were returned to the Navy after filming concluded."

It mentions the use of 4 partial B-29's not an airworhty one that was made into a raft.

You're right, of course, CC; however, the original post suggests a horrible fate that occured to an aircraft in a film. In the movie, the viewer is led to believe that an intact B-29 (used for flying freight ) is ditched and then converted into a raft by the survivors.

I hope I didn't keep you awake last night with the thought that a (once) flyable Superfort actually got carved up for this movie.

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Here is the C-123 used in Con-air - not the greatest shot - I'll find a better one.



Tom P.

I thought that I read in an Air Classic Magazine a while ago that the B-29 used for the beach scean was never returned but was abandoned by Disney at the site.

I also read that the B-25 that was "burned" was suspended over a pit of burning oil. It was not burned as such but was so covered inside and out with soot that a big hole was dug & it was burried on site as no-one wanted to fly it out.

There was space mini-series that that I remember that looked like it used RCAF F86's jumbled up on a "scrapyard astroide" for some type of "throne" for the local hoodlums that inhabited he astroide that I believe doubled as a prison. The plot was that a group of space cadets were on a training mission. They were attacked by rebel forces, who thought that they would be able to capture the ship to join it with several other ships to use as the "ultimate wepon" But the cadets fought back, escaped with their ship, and managed to destroy the wepon over several episoids with a home made rail gun, thus saving Earth. Somewhere I have it on a Beta tape as I remembering that I used to keep watching the F86's.....

Kenn

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i'd say right on all counts!! i'm familiar with all post replies thus far, & each is a tragic situation & a travesty of aviation history!! regards, tom

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tom d. friedman - hey!!! those fokkers were messerschmitts!! * without ammunition, the usaf would be just another flying club!!! * better to have piece of mind than piece of tail!!

Warbirds International a couple years ago had several photos of the B-25 being burned. The last photo showed that everything forward of the wings had melted away

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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)

An ex-RNZAF Dakota was destroyed by flimmakers from the USA when they came here and made 'The Race For The Yankee Zephyr'

It was NZ3518. ADF Serials says of this aircraft here
http://www.adf-serials.com/nz-serials/

"Retired in October 1980 with 33,588 flying hours logged. To Zephyr Films. Engines and all serviceable equipment removed and aircraft was floated across Lake Wakatipu on 11 November 1980 painted as USAAF "I-7689" for filming of "Race to the Yankee Zephyr". Following completion of filming the aircraft was beached and the remains broken up. Registration cancelled 08 April 1981 as withdrawn from use."

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I REMEMBER SEEING SEVERAL B-29 SECTIONS AT PIMA SHORTLY AFTER THE FILMING, THEY ALL WERE FILLED WITH FOAM BUT WERE IN GOOD CONDITION.WHERE DID THEY GO? A BIT OF PUMP GAS WOULD HAVE REMOVED THE FOAM WITH OUT DAMAGING THE AIRFRAME.THIS WAS IN 1980 ANY CLUES?THANKS MIKE

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A Mad Max movie with the P-51 car?

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I think there's been a C-47 sunk for the new movie "Into The Blue" (which is a thinly-disguised remake of the 1977 movie, "The Deep").

I also remember another C-47 sunk for another movie - saw it on a documentary about sharks, so no idea as to the film!

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"Road Raiders" was a 1989 TV movie/series pilot set in the Philippines in 1942 that had had fighting vehicles created from truck chassis and P-38 and P-51 fuselages. The kind of picture we could watch at "WIX Night at the Movies" and throw beer bottles at the screen. Or Moxie bottles.

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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)

Only fiberglass was at risk.

I think that these sat around the Universal Studios lot in Florida for a while. Also fiberglass.

Good thing to know that they were fiber glass!

And I was thorougfully shocked by the P-51 car that had something like 6 chains running down from the shaft to the transmission!

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