Suggested Identification - some of the unidentified aircraft
Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2014 4:57 pm
Here are some of my suggested identifications of some of the unidentified aircraft in the movies:
"Maria Wern Pojke Forsvunnen" -- appears to be a 1/48 scale Sopwith Camel from Aurora plastic kit- minus top wing, tail
and landing gear! I had one of these ....
"Midway" - Zero mockup footage taken from "I Bombed Pearl Harbor" - one of few realistic aircraft scenes in this movie
"People of Britain" - probably He 51 or Ar 68 fighters -- since the tailplane seems to be at the rear of the fuselage, my bet
is on the Arado 68 - this probably came from a German newsreel - one scene has similar planes
forming a swastika
"Rear Window" - photo in background is definitely a P-38J - possibly the "Droop Snoot" version
"Secret Agent X-9" -- single engine, eliptical wings, fixed landing gear - probably Aichi D3A1 "Val" or Mitsubishi A5M
"Claude"
"The New Avengers" - single engine braced wire monoplane - could be Fokker E-series, but more likely Morane-Saulnier
Type N or earlier
"Twilight Zone" - Definitely a Nieuport 28 - probably Tallman's as you said - Hollywood is not usually troubled by getting
it completely wrong - So, why not an N. 28 in RAF service? Look at "The Battle of Midway" (1976) -
total disaster with all the wrong planes -- except "I Bombed Pearl Harbor" outtakes! Martha Stewart
knows more about warplanes than the idiots who made this movie
"Behind That Curtain" - probably a Bellanca CH-200, maybe a CH-300 - aerofoil-style wingstruts are a dead giveaway for
early Bellanca aircraft
"Maria Wern Pojke Forsvunnen" -- appears to be a 1/48 scale Sopwith Camel from Aurora plastic kit- minus top wing, tail
and landing gear! I had one of these ....
"Midway" - Zero mockup footage taken from "I Bombed Pearl Harbor" - one of few realistic aircraft scenes in this movie
"People of Britain" - probably He 51 or Ar 68 fighters -- since the tailplane seems to be at the rear of the fuselage, my bet
is on the Arado 68 - this probably came from a German newsreel - one scene has similar planes
forming a swastika
"Rear Window" - photo in background is definitely a P-38J - possibly the "Droop Snoot" version
"Secret Agent X-9" -- single engine, eliptical wings, fixed landing gear - probably Aichi D3A1 "Val" or Mitsubishi A5M
"Claude"
"The New Avengers" - single engine braced wire monoplane - could be Fokker E-series, but more likely Morane-Saulnier
Type N or earlier
"Twilight Zone" - Definitely a Nieuport 28 - probably Tallman's as you said - Hollywood is not usually troubled by getting
it completely wrong - So, why not an N. 28 in RAF service? Look at "The Battle of Midway" (1976) -
total disaster with all the wrong planes -- except "I Bombed Pearl Harbor" outtakes! Martha Stewart
knows more about warplanes than the idiots who made this movie
"Behind That Curtain" - probably a Bellanca CH-200, maybe a CH-300 - aerofoil-style wingstruts are a dead giveaway for
early Bellanca aircraft
