Flight of The Phoenix

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Just started on TCM! Jimmy Stewart!

Hurry though! Jimmy is about to crash land!

Man bunch of stars in this movie.
 
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One of my favorite lines:

“They are not toys, they are MODELS!!”
 
One of my favorite movies.... the 1965 version that is....
 
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Did you know they actually built an flew the final assembled airplane. A video is on YouTube. On a second pass for the camara it crashed.
 
Scott@KTYR said:
Did you know they actually built an flew the final assembled airplane. A video is on YouTube. On a second pass for the camara it crashed.
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From IMDb:

The Tallmantz Phoenix P-1 was designed by Otto Timm and built by Tallmantz Aviation Inc. for the film. It had the following characteristics:
  • Length: 45'
  • Wingspan: 42'
  • Engine: a like-new Pratt & Whitney R-1340 nine cylinder radial engine of 650 hp, taken from a T-6, as were the wheels and various other parts.
  • Wings: wing panels taken from a T-11 (civilian conversion of an AT-11 which is a Beechcraft 18 type )
  • The apparent wing, tail, and undercarriage wire bracing was made out of clothesline, and was intentionally made to look flimsy.
  • The fuselage and empennage were all hand-built from scratch - plywood over a wood frame.
  • The cockpit was shallow and makeshift. The pilot sat down. Another person stood behind the pilot and was strapped to a stringer.
Dummies on the wings were found to blank the control surfaces, so silhouettes of the wing-passengers were used instead.​
 
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