C-47 in the new A-team movie

mustangdriver · **Posted:** Fri Jan 28, 2011 9:36 am

Just watched the new movie, and thought it was cool. But there is a scene when they break Murddock the pilot out of a mental hospital by ramming a Hummvee into the wall. As they are escapint to the flight line you can catch glimpses of a really polished C47 in the background. Anyone know which one. Looks almost like the Yankee Air Museums.

Obergrafeter · **Posted:** Fri Jan 28, 2011 4:50 pm

Probably not a real airplane like the Albatross in the Expendables movie.

bdk · **Joined:** Sun May 02, 2004 1:16 am **Posts:** 11324

mustangdriver wrote:

Just watched the new movie, and thought it was cool.

Uhhhhh... Why? :lol:

mustangdriver wrote:

But there is a scene when they break Murddock the pilot out of a mental hospital by ramming a Hummvee into the wall.

A HMMWV is made of aluminum and plastic. Well, the frame is steel, but if a HMMWV crashed into a real wall it would be completely destroyed. Even if you don't crash them they don't last very long.

mustangdriver wrote:

As they are escapint to the flight line you can catch glimpses of a really polished C47 in the background. Anyone know which one. Looks almost like the Yankee Air Museums.

And I heard that GTMO was torture! Maybe they should show this movie instead? :finga:

As Mudge might say: "I'm just funnin' ya son!"

Jack Cook · **Posted:** Fri Jan 28, 2011 8:15 pm

Betcha a shiney silver dollar that's Skip Evan's DC-3. He's done a lot a movie stuff
inc the last James Bond movie. The secene in PH where they're coming out of the Dc-3 is his also.
His cuz up here took me up his his PT-13D on my 14th B-Day. Once when Skip was up here I
got a ride in his Twin Beech.

mustangdriver · **Posted:** Fri Jan 28, 2011 8:24 pm

Thanks Jack. It may be. BDK, it is all good. I am a sucker for 80's shows. And Jessica beal

whistlingdeath77 · **Posted:** Sat Jan 29, 2011 9:14 pm

thats just like in the movie " Iron man" you can see a hugh picture of a b-24 production line in one of his offices. im sure somebody said something about that a long time ago

CH2Tdriver · **Posted:** Mon Jan 31, 2011 1:31 pm

Obergrafeter wrote:

Probably not a real airplane like the Albatross in the Expendables movie.

Actually it was a real Albatross, and it was cool to see an HU-16 on the big screen. (55" HD LCD

). I checked the credits and the plane was owned by a S American company as the island scenes were filmed in Brazil. The pilot is credited as Lynn Hunt. I liked that sequence and was happy to see a warbird put to work rather than cheesy CGI. The photog in me appreciated some of the nice footage they caught of it in some of the other scenes, probably with a stabilized gimble mount on a helicopter.

For those who haven't seen the movie here's what we're referring to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxq-I0a7myA

I saw this on the DVD's making of featurette. It features a dry run pass along with Sly's reaction. And Jason Statham really did ride it down in the nose hatch!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eU4DeCAY ... re=related

Pete

Obergrafeter · **Posted:** Mon Jan 31, 2011 8:26 pm

True it was a real airplane , but the machine gunner in the bow , rockets and bombs were a little hard to take not to mention the friendly chats and cigar smoking in the cockpit without headphones!

mustangdriver · **Posted:** Tue Feb 01, 2011 10:13 am

I am pretty sure the C-47 is real. It looks like it was filmed at a military base, and that it may be a gate gaurd aircraft. Not sure. It is polished with the white top like the YAM C-47

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