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Perhaps Sparrow I's during tests on a Douglas F3D Skyknight in the early 1950s ? | Perhaps Sparrow I's during tests on a Douglas F3D Skyknight in the early 1950s ?<BR> | ||
Another use of test firing footage seen (inverted) in [[The Lost Missile]] ? | |||
[[Image:FS64 guess.png|thumb|500px|none|]] | [[Image:FS64 guess.png|thumb|500px|none|]] | ||
Latest revision as of 00:15, 31 May 2020

Movie (1964)
French title : Point limite
Starring:
Dan O'Herlihy (Brigadier General Warren A. "Blackie" Black)
Walter Matthau (Professor Groeteschele)
Frank Overton (General Bogan)
Ed Binns (Colonel Jack Grady)
An accidental thermonuclear first-strike attack by a group of United States Vindicator bombers is launched. A commercial aircraft with radio failure is mistaken for a UFO and the alert turned red. When the airplane is identified, another error occured ...
Hung Toys

Mooney M20E Super 21
At left, probably a Convair C-131 Samaritan. At right two unidentified tails, one printed by registration N785CP (or N765CP ?).

Convair B-58 Hustler
Named Vindicator bombers by the headquaters.


Later seen as a negative shot. First, the second prototype s/n 50661.

Then a craft in the colors of the USAF.

North American F-100F Super Sabre
Shown as a negative picture.


Boeing B-52 Stratofortress
The crew of a Convair B-58 was seated in tandem in three different cockpits. But the movie show them in a single one like in a Stratofortress.

Convair F-102 Delta Dagger

If the following Delta is not a F-102, it's a F-106 !

Convair F-106 Delta Dart

McDonnell F-101 Voodoo
Another aircraft display through a negative process.

Lockheed F-104G Starfighter

Unidentified Aircraft
Perhaps Sparrow I's during tests on a Douglas F3D Skyknight in the early 1950s ?
Another use of test firing footage seen (inverted) in The Lost Missile ?

North American X-15A
Another shot used flipped.

Grumman F-9J Cougar
Designation from 1962 of the F9F-8. Negative and inverted shot.

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