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Just watched it with my girlfriend the other day, and there is a scene while on base with what looks like a Panther on a stand as a gate guard. Anyone know if it is still there, and where that is?

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It was a Cougar and I believe it is no longer on display, since it doesn't show up on Google Earth. It was shot at Fort Worden State Park, 200 Battery Way, Port Townsend, Washington and you can see the parade ground and the circle where the Cougar use to be.
Anybody out there know where it went?

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tom d. friedman wrote:
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I did!
He sold it to the Air Force! :lol:

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MOF Seattle, I got to help "work" (as much as an 8yr old can do) on this plane.

http://www.museumofflight.org/aircraft/ ... -9j-cougar

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Wow! She looks great. I am glad that it is preserved and in a good home.

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The MoF website says they got the plane in 1969.
The film was made in the 80s.

So either the film company rented the plane and put it in place as set dressing...or it's a different aircraft.

Which is it?

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Well, it was donated to the museum at that time, but nothing says it was on display at the museum at that time. Maybe they had control of it, but it was still on display there.

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I think you're right.
The museum really didn't exist as it does today until much later than 1969. They probably had ownership and then when they were ready to take it home, moved it.
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MOF Seattle, I got to help "work" (as much as an 8yr old can do) on this plane.

http://www.museumofflight.org/aircraft/ ... -9j-cougar


The info. in the MOF listing says that it was located in Marymoor Park. Same plane that just got moved around a lot? Or different airframe?

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Yeah, before the 'Great Gallery' was built, most of the MoF except the Red Barn was a dirt parking lot. The B-47 was donated in 1969 and sat in various out of the way spots around KBFI for years. Same with the COUGAR. I believe it got a quickie repaint in spurious markings for the movie because it was pretty rugged when it first got to Seattle. It does (or did) have most of the LABS instrumentation still in the cockpit.

And, in spite of how he down plays it even @ 8 years old, 262crew was a big help on the COUGAR as well as putting the wings together on the DORNIER DO-27, but he always has been a good kid

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I am dying to get to the museum of flight. Quick Question, how often are you allowed to get into the Blackbird.

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Yeah she likes that too, but she bought me the set of When We Left Earth.

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mustangdriver wrote:
I am dying to get to the museum of flight. Quick Question, how often are you allowed to get into the Blackbird.


They have a Blackbird cockpit section which you can sit in at any time (at least that was true the three of four times I've been). You can't get in the complete aircraft as far as I am aware.

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