Chris Brame wrote:
Another Mercer-Hollywood connection: One of their pilots was Arch Hall, Jr., the star of '60s drive-in cult films Eegah!, The Choppers, Wild Guitar, and The Sadist. He might have flown that DC-3.
And son of Arch Hall, Sr...director of such cinematic triumphs.
Not quite
Ed Wood stuff, but close...or so says my book on bad movies.
Still, there are a lot of old planes out there with interesting bits of history and like bdk, I wonder if their present owner's know about their claim to fame?
Some are in films and TV (I have a friend whose Goose appeared in
The Saint) and had another aircraft which appeared on the cover of
Flying back in the early 70s. Or my favorite "famous" airplane that the owner probably doesn't know about would be the Piper Tri-Pacer N7019B which was the subject of Monogram's model in the 50s...and as a $.29 plastic Woolworth-type toy Pacer I had as a kid.
And the Bell 47J Ranger used in
The Whirlybirds is still out there, but the owner knows its history.