The Cyclops

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The Cyclops theatrical movie poster.

Movie (1957)

Starring:
James Craig (Russ Bradford)
Gloria Talbott (Susan Winter)
Lon Chaney Jr. (Martin Melville)
Tom Drake (Lee Brand)
Duncan "Dean" Parkin (Bruce Barton)
Vicente Padula (Governor)

Susan Winter and a group of other people - pilot Lee Brand, bacteriologist Russ Bradford and wealthy businessman Martin Melville - go searching for Susan's missing fiance Bruce Barton in a desolate Mexican desert. They discover that Bruce has been mutated into a gigantic, one-eyed "cyclops" by the radiation from uranium deposits.

Cessna 170

Seen at the airfield.

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Unidentified Aircraft

Backgrounds.

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Stinson 108-3 Voyager

Registration N6647M Stinson 108-3 Voyager c/n 108-4647 built in 1948; crashed on 5 July 2001.
After two failed takeoff attempts, on the third takeoff attempt, the engine was right but as the airplane climbed above the trees, the engine lost all power. The pilot performed a forced landing into trees, and the airplane settled to the ground in a wooded area. Safety enquiry found the right-side muffler baffling was mostly disintegrated, consistent with a baffling failure and subsequent blockage of the engine exhaust.
Civil registration, N6647M, was cancelled on 3 February 2010.

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Stinson 108-1 Voyager

Reg. N8229K Universal Stinson 108-1 c/n 108-1229 seen only during the takeoff and flight.
Note the missing passenger, the lack of white arrow and cartouche (including 'Stinson Voyager').

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Unidentified Aircraft

Finding the first part of an unidentified aircraft, later Bruce's supposed plane.

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North American P-51D Mustang

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Unidentified Aircraft

The team is puzzled: how can such an engine end up in such a place, isolated from any other part of an aircraft and with no tools? This radial engine (maybe a Wright R-1300 Cyclone 7?) couldn't possibly power a North American P-51D Mustang whose canopy we'd just seen.

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