C-47 in the new A-team movie

[mustangdriver]

Just watched the new movie, and thought it was cool. But there is a scene when they break Murddock the pilot out of a mental hospital by ramming a Hummvee into the wall. As they are escapint to the flight line you can catch glimpses of a really polished C47 in the background. Anyone know which one. Looks almost like the Yankee Air Museums.

[Obergrafeter]

Probably not a real airplane like the Albatross in the Expendables movie.

[bdk]

Just watched the new movie, and thought it was cool.

Uhhhhh... Why?

But there is a scene when they break Murddock the pilot out of a mental hospital by ramming a Hummvee into the wall.

A HMMWV is made of aluminum and plastic. Well, the frame is steel, but if a HMMWV crashed into a real wall it would be completely destroyed. Even if you don't crash them they don't last very long.

As they are escapint to the flight line you can catch glimpses of a really polished C47 in the background. Anyone know which one. Looks almost like the Yankee Air Museums.

And I heard that GTMO was torture! Maybe they should show this movie instead?

As Mudge might say: "I'm just funnin' ya son!"

[Jack Cook]

Betcha a shiney silver dollar that's Skip Evan's DC-3. He's done a lot a movie stuff
inc the last James Bond movie. The secene in PH where they're coming out of the Dc-3 is his also.
His cuz up here took me up his his PT-13D on my 14th B-Day. Once when Skip was up here I
got a ride in his Twin Beech.

[mustangdriver]

Thanks Jack. It may be. BDK, it is all good. I am a sucker for 80's shows. And Jessica beal

[whistlingdeath77]

thats just like in the movie " Iron man" you can see a hugh picture of a b-24 production line in one of his offices. im sure somebody said something about that a long time ago

[CH2Tdriver]

Probably not a real airplane like the Albatross in the Expendables movie.

Actually it was a real Albatross, and it was cool to see an HU-16 on the big screen. (55" HD LCD ). I checked the credits and the plane was owned by a S American company as the island scenes were filmed in Brazil. The pilot is credited as Lynn Hunt. I liked that sequence and was happy to see a warbird put to work rather than cheesy CGI. The photog in me appreciated some of the nice footage they caught of it in some of the other scenes, probably with a stabilized gimble mount on a helicopter.

For those who haven't seen the movie here's what we're referring to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxq-I0a7myA

I saw this on the DVD's making of featurette. It features a dry run pass along with Sly's reaction. And Jason Statham really did ride it down in the nose hatch!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eU4DeCAY ... re=related

Pete

[Obergrafeter]

True it was a real airplane , but the machine gunner in the bow , rockets and bombs were a little hard to take not to mention the friendly chats and cigar smoking in the cockpit without headphones!

[mustangdriver]

I am pretty sure the C-47 is real. It looks like it was filmed at a military base, and that it may be a gate gaurd aircraft. Not sure. It is polished with the white top like the YAM C-47