John Wayne Movie C-124

[Glen]

Greetings
Dose anybody know the status on the C-124 that was used in the Movie Hell Fighters ? and who's P-40 was that in the last seen of the movie .



Always Keep em Flying

Glen


Lookie Capt Jim ! Wham ! Wham !...........................Termights.

[Glen]

Should be Hell Fighters not Heck

Thank you


Glen

[Dan Newcomb]

Heck it is and heck it shall be because the webmaster of this site is obviously offended by such nasty language shucks, darn, dang. I think they call it censorship but it isn’t my site.

Dan

[Jiggersfromsphilly]

AWWW ! What the He!! is next???

[JBoyle]

I believe the P-40 belonged to Tallmantz...if so, it appeared in quite a lot of films.

My guess, is that by playing the odds, unless it got lucky and became one of the too few survivors... the C-124 was probably scrapped at AMARC in the late 70s.

BTW: Guessing by the paint scheme, the yellow Bell 204 belonged to PHI.
The Bell 47J Ranger is neat too. Wonder if it survives?

Wonder who owned the very rare Kaman HUK/HH-43A (a piston powered Huskie..for you non-helicopter types)?

Or what was the ID for the Duke's Lockheed JetStar..or the host of Bell 47Gs?

It's a fun film for airplane fans....one of the best Wayne films for a variety of planes.

[RickH]

It was mostly shot in Houston. It was a fictionalized account of Red Adair's career. Most of the well fire shots were filmed over in Baytown and the initial fire where he gets hurt was shot in a little side bay called Goose Bay. All of the well derricks in those scenes are now gone. Matter of fact we had them all over the place, sadly, most have been scrapped over the last 40 years for the steel.

[skymstr02]

I remember driving past them on the east side of highway 146 in Goose Creek when I lived in Baytown in the 70's. This was way before the bridge, and the tunnel was the way to go between Baytown and La Porte.