Warbird Information Exchange

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It's also about the only opportunity you'll have to watch the model 322 non turbo equipped British ordered Lightning 1. If you pause it when Johnson is showing off at Traceys urging you'll see the 4 inch exhaust stub protruding from a flat plate on top of the aft nacelle where the turbo would have been mounted and see the square carb intake box on top of the nacelle. These were the British order that was rejected during evaluation tests, they wound up as transition trainers and had two right hand rotation engines instead of the standard outward turning engines of a regular P-38 'Hey kid, meet the torque monster'.
I think what you hear as engines cutting out, since the ALLISON had a pressure carburetor, may have been noise blanking from rolling the aircraft and the sound being deflected by the booms.
To 'slow down' water in 'tank shots' of ships a gelatin is mixed in so the 'waves and wakes' are slowed down and is REALLY easy to spot, but gotta be pretty quick or your 'oceans' will set up.

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Thanks for posting all this info! Did anyone else notice the Beech AT-10 that's parked behind Irene Dunne's PT-19? Also one good blooper in a back-projection shot where you can see a BT-13 coded X-4 in the background footage and the actors are standing next to the same aircraft in the foreground.

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All right, Mister Dorfmann, start pullin'!
Pilot: "Flap switch works hard in down position."
Mechanic: "Flap switch checked OK. Pilot needs more P.T." - Flight report, TB-17G 42-102875 (Hobbs AAF)

Your welcome Chris, and yes I did notice the AT-10 as well. Very cool film. Glad I taped it. BTW I know the area where the filming took place in the LIFE photos above, interesting as those oil towers are long gone.

In between "A Guy Named Joe" and "Always", it was remade as "Heaven Can Wait", with Warren Beatty playing a football quarterback instead of a pilot.

That one was a remake of 'Here comes Mr. Jordan' from 1943 with James Mason

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Thank you...I got my classic movies mixed up.

And Here Comes Mr. Jordan had a sequel of sorts in the 1947 musical Down to Earth with Rita Hayworth - it also had a scene set in heaven with people boarding a ghostly white aircraft, only this time it appeared to be a heavily modified Lockheed PV-1!

There's also been some speculation as to whether the crashlanded B-25B seen early in ...Joe is the same one now at Aero Trader, 40-2347. Has anyone made a close comparison between film stills and 2347 to verify? I did notice they showed a closeup of the tail being shot up with the serial 02295 - but Baugher has no info on 40-2295.

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All right, Mister Dorfmann, start pullin'!
Pilot: "Flap switch works hard in down position."
Mechanic: "Flap switch checked OK. Pilot needs more P.T." - Flight report, TB-17G 42-102875 (Hobbs AAF)

Ah Chris, your an old movie buff as well, nice!!! good to see that.



Not sure, but I do have a few close up photos of that particular B-25 I can post.

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