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TV Series (1971-1974)
German title: Grenzfälle – Es geschah übermorgen

Starring:
Pierre Vaneck (Yan Thomas)
Elga Andersen (Barbara Andersen)
Jean-François Rémi (Courtenay-Gabor, Chief of BIPS)
Eva Christian (Christa Neumann (S2E3))

This series depicts two agents from the "International Bureau of scientific prevention" (BIPS, "Bureau international de prévention scientifique") who are responsible for protecting mankind from the criminal use of the latest scientific discoveries.

Season One (1971)

Unidentified Rocket

Ep. 1.2 Attention, nécroses mentales
Mercury or Appolo ?

North American Apollo Command Module

Ep. 1.2 Attention, nécroses mentales

Saturn V Apollo

Ep. 1.2 Attention, nécroses mentales

Sikorsky SH-3 Sea King

Ep. 1.2 Attention, nécroses mentales
Sea landing during the Mercury flights.

Return of Apollo (VIII, X, XI, XII or XIII). Sikorsky SH-3D 2711 '66' of HS-4, US Navy (s/n 152711, c/n 61377). Crashed and ditched on June 1975.
Same helicopter in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.

Chrysler Mercury Redstone 2

Ep. 1.2 Attention, nécroses mentales

Sikorsky HUS-1 Seahorse

Ep. 1.2 Attention, nécroses mentales
February 1961 : return of the Mercury flight with Ham chimpanzee.

Grumman HU-16 Albatross

Ep. 1.4 Menaces sur le sixième continent
Only the left float is seen.

Sud Aviation SE 210 Caravelle III

Ep. 1.4 Menaces sur le sixième continent

Sud Aviation SE 210 Caravelle III of Royal Air Maroc.

Boeing QB-17F Flying Fortress

Ep. 1.5 L'Homme radar
Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft (Military Fixed-Wing).

Crash Sequence (3 July 1968)

Ep. 1.5 L'Homme radar
Please, read the discussion tab.

Airspeed AS.57 Ambassador 2

Registration G-AMAD, c/n 5211 built in 1951. Already met on this site:IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft (Civil Fixed-Wing).

Reg. G-AMAD Airspeed AS.57 Ambassador 2 of BKS Air Transport.

A lorry is loading the wrecked port (left) tail and horizontal stabilizer.

Reg. G-AMAD Airspeed AS.57 Ambassador 2 of BKS Air Transport.

Upside down fuselage and starboard (right) engine with landing gear extended. Top left corner, the outer tail seen on the former picture.

Reg. G-AMAD Airspeed AS.57 Ambassador 2 of BKS Air Transport.

Hawker Siddeley HS.121 Trident 1C

Registration G-ARPT, c/n 2121 built in 1965. It was a written off after this day. Already met on this site:IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft (Civil Fixed-Wing).

Reg. G-ARPT Hawker Siddeley HS.121 Trident 1C of BEA-British European Airways.

SNCASO SO 4050 Vautour II B

Ep. 1.5 L'Homme radar
Horizontal mirror inverted.

Nord 2501 Noratlas

Ep. 1.5 L'Homme radar

Dornier Do 17

Ep. 1.5 L'Homme radar
Dornier Do 17 Wk.Nr.2361 of Kampfgeschwader 76 was downed on 15 September 1940 and crashed into the Victoria Station, 115 Buckingham Palace Rd, London. Source.

Boeing 727-228

Ep. 1.5 L'Homme radar
At Aéroport de Paris-Orly / Paris-Orly Airport (ORY/LFPO) , undistinguished aircraft in the far background.

Boeing 727-228 of Air France.

Boeing 747-121

Ep. 1.5 L'Homme radar

Boeing 747-121 of Pan Am-Pan American World Airways.

Cessna 310

Ep. 1.5 L'Homme radar

Various Drawing

Ep. 1.6 Protection spéciale ultra-sons « U »
German (GDR or FRG ?) government learning that their military secret are known by Allies. Four engravings with single and twin engin aircraft. Messerschmitt Bf 110 is clearly identified; the poor quality of the copy miss positive identification of what could a Junkers Ju 88 and several twin engine twin tail aircraft alongside a high wing single engine plane.

Top left, the drawing is about : 1) Henschel Hs 123 2) Junkers Ju 87 3) Henschel Hs 126

Boeing 727-228

Ep. 1.6 Protection spéciale ultra-sons « U »
Registration F-BOJA, c/n 19543. First 727 delivered to Air France in 1968, she finished her days at the Institute Aéronautique Amaury de la Grange, a technical school at Merville airport, not far from Lille.
Same aircraft in other works at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft (Civil Fixed-Wing).