Captains of the Clouds
Movie (1942)
Starring:
James Cagney (Brian MacLean (bush pilot))
Dennis Morgan (Johnny Dutton (bush pilot))
Brenda Marshall (Emily Foster)
Alan Hale (Francis Patrick 'Tiny' Murphy (bush pilot))
George Tobias (Blimp Lebec (bush pilot))
Reginald Gardiner (Scrounger Harris (bush pilot))
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 girl-friend 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 always the pilot who's girlfriend he has married. Due to this and the fact, that McLean doesn't like to obey he gets troubles.
Noorduyn Norseman MkIV
Bush pilot (James Cagney) Brian McLean’s aircraft. Fake registration CF-HGO.
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-GHY.
Supermarine Spitfire I
Unidentified Aircraft
North American Harvard II
North American Yale I
French Armée de l’Air specification NA-64, not delivered since 1940, and reversed to RCAF as Yale I.
North American NA-64
In the foreground, NA-64 still wearing French Armée de l’Air colours.
Northrop A-17A Nomad
Fleet Fawn MkII
Avro Anson Mk.I
Lockheed L-12A Electra Junior
On the left.
In the background.
Fairey Battle MkI
Lockheed Hudson III
Hawker Hurricane I
Used to figure a Messerschmitt Be-109 of the Luftwaffe intercepting the Hudson convoy over Atlantic ocean.
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