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[[Image: AVION_COTC_KC.jpg|thumb|500px|none | North American Yale of the RCAF.]] | [[Image: AVION_COTC_KC.jpg|thumb|500px|none | North American Yale of the RCAF.]] | ||
[[Image: AVION_COTC_KD.jpg|thumb|500px|none | North American Yale of the RCAF.]] | [[Image: AVION_COTC_KD.jpg|thumb|500px|none | North American Yale of the RCAF.]] | ||
| − | [[Image: AVION_COTC_KF.jpg|thumb|500px|none | North American Yale of the RCAF. The furthest two aircraft (3399 & 3400) still exist in airworthy condition in Ontario, Canada]] | + | [[Image: AVION_COTC_KF.jpg|thumb|500px|none | North American Yale of the RCAF. The furthest two aircraft (3399 & 3400) still exist in airworthy condition in Ontario, Canada. The third one has still its French Roundel (see talk tab to know why).]] |
[[Image: AVION_COTC_KI.jpg|thumb|500px|none | North American Yale of the RCAF.]] | [[Image: AVION_COTC_KI.jpg|thumb|500px|none | North American Yale of the RCAF.]] | ||
[[Image: AVION_COTC_MG.jpg|thumb|500px|none | North American Yale of the RCAF. Notice the wing still shows a French roundel.]] | [[Image: AVION_COTC_MG.jpg|thumb|500px|none | North American Yale of the RCAF. Notice the wing still shows a French roundel.]] | ||
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[[Image: AVION_COTC_LD.jpg|thumb|500px|none | Northrop A-17A Nomad of the RCAF.]] | [[Image: AVION_COTC_LD.jpg|thumb|500px|none | Northrop A-17A Nomad of the RCAF.]] | ||
| − | == [[:Category: Fleet Finch| Fleet 16B Finch II]] == | + | == [[:Category: Fleet Fawn / Finch| Fleet 16B Finch II]] == |
[[Image: AVION_COTC_MB.jpg|thumb|500px|none | Fleet 16B Finch II of the RCAF.]] | [[Image: AVION_COTC_MB.jpg|thumb|500px|none | Fleet 16B Finch II of the RCAF.]] | ||
[[Image: AVION_COTC_MF.jpg|thumb|500px|none | Fleet 16B Finch II of the RCAF.]] | [[Image: AVION_COTC_MF.jpg|thumb|500px|none | Fleet 16B Finch II of the RCAF.]] | ||
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[[Category: Fairchild 71]] | [[Category: Fairchild 71]] | ||
[[Category: Fairey Battle]] | [[Category: Fairey Battle]] | ||
| − | [[Category: Fleet Finch]] | + | [[Category: Fleet Fawn / Finch]] |
[[Category: Hawker Hurricane]] | [[Category: Hawker Hurricane]] | ||
[[Category: Lockheed Hudson]] | [[Category: Lockheed Hudson]] | ||
Latest revision as of 07:33, 10 August 2021
Movie (1942)
French title : Les Chevaliers du ciel (1942)
Starring:
James Cagney (Brian MacLean)
Dennis Morgan (Johnny Dutton)
Brenda Marshall (Emily Foster)
Alan Hale (Francis Patrick 'Tiny' Murph)
George Tobias (Blimp Lebec)
Reginald Gardiner (Scrounger Harris)
Brian McLean is a ruthless bush-pilot in Canada. He offers some other pilots an opportunity of earning a lot of money, but he marries the girlfriend of one of them. After listening to Churchill's famous "Blood, sweat and tears" radio address he and some other pilots decide to join the RCAF - and his superior is the pilot who's girlfriend he has married. Due to this and the fact, that McLean doesn't like to obey he gets into troubles.
Noorduyn Norseman Mk I
Bush pilot (James Cagney) Brian McLean’s aircraft. This was the prototype Norseman, registered CF-AYO. Fake registration CF-HGO was applied for filming.
Arrival at Uplands RCAF Base, with wheels.
Fairchild 71C
Bush pilot Johnny Dutton’s aircraft. Fake registration CF-NBP.
Waco ZQC-6
Bush pilot Lebec’s aircraft. Fake registration CF-GHV.
Waco YKC
Bush pilot Francis Patrick 'Tiny' Murphy’s aircraft. Fake registration CF-JPY. Seen in the background.
In the background.
Supermarine Spitfire I
North American Harvard II
North American Yale
French Armée de l’Air specification NA-64, 119 aircraft not delivered to France in 1940. Sold to RCAF as Yale.
Northrop A-17A Nomad
Fleet 16B Finch II
Avro Anson Mk.I
Lockheed L-12A Electra Junior
On the left.
In the background.
Fairey Battle Mk I
Lockheed Hudson III
Hawker Hurricane I
Used to represent a Messerschmitt Bf 109 of the Luftwaffe intercepting the Hudson convoy over Atlantic ocean.
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