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DarenC1
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DarenC1 wrote:
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It's got to be the Spitfire, surely?

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and don't forget MH434's short but memorable appearance in "A Bridge Too Far"!
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Of course, I totally forgot those two films.

Also, I forgot Aces: Iron Eagle 3! :D


And I also forgot A Yank in the RAF! :roll:

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It's got to be the Spitfire, surely?


You forgot Flying Tigers as well - blink and you miss it, but it's there... :lol:

...and don't call me Shirley.

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How about the P-40 in 1941 with John Belushi?

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Chris Brame wrote:
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It's got to be the Spitfire, surely?


You forgot Flying Tigers as well - blink and you miss it, but it's there... :lol:

...and don't call me Shirley.


Of course, the night-flying sequence. I guess the director figured "Hey, it'll be dark, the audience won't notice!" :wink:

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Dan K wrote:
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The T-6...usually playing a A6M.


...or P-47 (A Bridge Too far),

or a Fw-190 (Where Eagles Dare),

or an SBD (War and Remembrance)

or...?


or a P-51 or P-47 in Kelly's Heros
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Although the average viewer won't think 'warbird' when they see it, there's been a red 450 Stearman in tons of movies and TV shows.

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Nathan wrote:
I havent seen Air Force in awhile but you are probably correct. Although I remember P-43's being used as Zero's. More or less stock footage of a fast flying P-43.


You're correct. P-43 models.
And a AT-6 playing an O-47. They mention the O-47 by name...surely a first (and last).
I wastched it a couple of night ago after taking it on TCM, but I think they also used a couple shots of AT-6s as Zeros as well.

But a new answer to the question is....drum rolll...
C-47/DC-3 (that does count as a warbird, doesn't it?)

It's been in lots of films

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PhantomAce08 wrote:
Dan K wrote:
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The T-6...usually playing a A6M.


...or P-47 (A Bridge Too far),

or a Fw-190 (Where Eagles Dare),

or an SBD (War and Remembrance)

or...?


or a P-51 or P-47 in Kelly's Heros


I think that one was an obscure Yugoslavian type powered by an R1340.

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The Spitfire also appeared in " The Spitfire Story" which starred Sir David Niven as Reginald Mitchell.

Maybe I missed it but the Spitfire was also in Pearl Harbour when whats his name went to join the RAF and got shot down

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Jeff Hunt wrote:
The Spitfire also appeared in " The Spitfire Story" which starred Sir David Niven as Reginald Mitchell.

Maybe I missed it but the Spitfire was also in Pearl Harbour when whats his name went to join the RAF and got shot down

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Pearl Harbor is in Daz's list above, as is 'The First of the Few' (known as 'Spitfire' in the US) which did indeed star David Niven (never a 'Sir' though), but not as Mitchell, instead as a fictional character, an RAF pilot and friend of Mitchell.
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And another P-40 - this time a captured example used in the Japanese movie Kato Hayabusa Sentotai at about 4:28 here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BXo-jWcGnw

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The warbird Most seen has got to be the UH-1 Huey!!!
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Hmmm.... Phantom is pretty well known... T-38/F-5/F-20 is used for a lot of stock shots... F-16 "lately" (I'm 53), BUFF... I'd mention the f-14 but I hate Top Gun... and if we go in the other direction.... Jennies and Fokker Triplanes (D-VIIs?)

That should stir things up a bit.

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