Warbird Information Exchange

Just saw a behind the scenes of "night at the museum 2" and they had a gigantic museum build set with some aircraft like a Lockheed Vega and an F-104. Anyone know what F-104 and Vega they used? The starfighter was a 2-seater.

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Magister Aviation
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Have not seen the movie yet. They did a lot of shooting IN the museum as well as doing set staging. They closed off bits of the museum and shot their snippets while trying to not disrupt the museum too much. I hope they put a lot of $$$'s in the coffers for their use of the property!

They indeed filmed in the museum, but they had to do it during opening hours. I read they paid half a million dollar to use the real museum. The action scenes were filmed on a gigantic set though. They essentially build a copy of the real museum. I found out the wright flyer and the Vega were replica's build for the movie, but the F-104 was real. Here's a picture I found:

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Magister Aviation
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I believe the F-104 was this one:

http://www.canadianflight.org/content/l ... tarfighter

cheers

greg v.

That F-104 may be real, but the shot you have a screencap of is of a soundstage/set, not the Museum. NASM's F-104 is a blue/white NASA single-seater and it hangs from the ceiling above the West-side (next to the Gift Shop) escalators.

It's going to be interesting to see the movie, and particularly try to pick out the shots done in the museum vs the mockup/set. The differences were easy to pick out in the trailers.

I know my shot is of the soundstage. The real museum indeed has the NASA one hanging from the ceiling. I want to know which one the bare matel/red one is used in the movie. Seems weird they go to a canadian museum for a CF-104D. Surely there are TF-104's in the states?

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Magister Aviation
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The bulk of the movie was shot in Vancouver, so it would make sense they would utilize local aircraft on set.

A bit from "Air and Space Museum's" website pertaining to the movie shoot. I found it interesting, not a lot of data on AC, just behind the scenes stuff, just the staff trying to keep the crew from damaging historic artifacts.

http://www.airspacemag.com/flight-today ... ign=ASMMay

Hey guys,

Yeah, from what I know, quite a few airplanes used in the filming of "Night in the Museum II" were rented from the Canadian Museum of Flight.

The CF-104 was definitely one of them, but having not seen the movie yet, I don't know which others. I think the CF-100 and and Beech 18 also went for the shoot.

Cheers,

David

Too bad they don't bother to keep the visitors from rubbing thier grubby hands all over them.

SN