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Reg. NC7044 Lockheed Vega Model 1 (c/n 11) delivered on July 31, 1928. First owned by Maddux Airlines which sold it on March 1930. On December 4, 1935, its sixth buyer was Loren L. Miles who christened the plane <i>Miss Patricia</i> then <i>Miss Patsy</i>.<br> | Reg. NC7044 Lockheed Vega Model 1 (c/n 11) delivered on July 31, 1928. <br> | ||
Same aircraft in other movies at [[IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft (Civil Fixed-Wing)|Frequently Seen Aircraft (Civil Fixed-Wing)]].<br> | |||
First owned by Maddux Airlines which sold it on March 1930. On December 4, 1935, its sixth buyer was Loren L. Miles who christened the plane <i>Miss Patricia</i> then <i>Miss Patsy</i>.<br> | |||
For the filming, the small graphic worn between the engine and the arrow's head was removed and the registration changed into NX704. Sometimes later, NC7044 went into storage and Loren L. Miles was killed in action during World War Two. On August 17, 1945, NC7044 came out of storage and was sold to a pilot who had an accident with it before the end of the year. Repaired, it was sold (4 times until 1949). It was then used for 3 years by the same midwestern owner who changed its engine and based it for the first time outside the west coast. Last record flight in 1952 (?) when it was sold for 300 US dollars and laid derelic (the engine was quickly unassembled and sold). As of March 15, 1955 it was reported “permanently retired from service”. Ultimate fate precisely unknown. | For the filming, the small graphic worn between the engine and the arrow's head was removed and the registration changed into NX704. Sometimes later, NC7044 went into storage and Loren L. Miles was killed in action during World War Two. On August 17, 1945, NC7044 came out of storage and was sold to a pilot who had an accident with it before the end of the year. Repaired, it was sold (4 times until 1949). It was then used for 3 years by the same midwestern owner who changed its engine and based it for the first time outside the west coast. Last record flight in 1952 (?) when it was sold for 300 US dollars and laid derelic (the engine was quickly unassembled and sold). As of March 15, 1955 it was reported “permanently retired from service”. Ultimate fate precisely unknown. | ||
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Latest revision as of 03:57, 9 August 2025
Movie (1938)
French title : Les hommes volants
Starring:
Fred MacMurray (Pat Falconer, aircraft engineer and manufacturer)
Ray Milland (Scott Barnes)
Louise Campbell (Peggy Ranson)
Andy Devine (Joe Gibbs)
James Burke (J.A. Nolan, industrialist aircraft manufacturer)
(Synopsis needed)
Fictional Aircraft
Later ...
Santos Dumont 14-bis
Same aircraft in other movies at Frequently Seen Aircraft (Civil Fixed-Wing).
Blériot XII
Tribute to Louis Blériot seen flying the Blériot XII (June 1909). This picture is sometimes used by error to illustrate the Channel Crossing on 25 July 1909.
Farman III
Louis Paulhan (19 July 1883 – 10 February 1963) was a French aviator. He is known for winning in April 1910 the first Daily Mail aviation prize (1906) for the first flight between London and Manchester after touring America in January.
The most famous contest about the cross-channel flight was only the fourth to be published ... with a reward 10 times smaller.
Curtiss Pusher
Ely landing his Curtiss Pusher (as said on January 18, 1911) on board the USS Pennsylvania in San Francisco Bay.
Curtiss E
Wright Model EX
Calbraith Perry Rodgers Jr. (born January 12, 1879) was an American aviation pioneer. He made the first transcontinental airplane flight across the U.S. from September 17, 1911, to November 5, 1911. On April 3, 1912, while making an exhibition flight over Long Beach, California, he flew into a flock of birds, causing the plane to crash into the ocean.
Buhl Bull Pup LA1
Buhl LA-1 Pup.
Curtiss Pusher
Despite in the foreground (among the aircraft but behind the bicycle) with the red rudder with NOLAN in yellow.
Hangars at Los Angeles Metropolitan Airport (Van Nuys Airport nowadays).
Unidentified Aircraft
Model kit of a new Nolan aircraft.
Curtiss JN-6H
Despite some differences mainly about the wing.
SPAD S.VII
SPAD S.VII (or XIII ?) behind Raoul Lufbery. The fifth victory of Lufbery dates on 12 October 1916. The (fictitious ?) Underwood Daily Record is seen printed on 14 October 1916.
World War One Air Battle (brief analysis)
The image-based editing of the fast-moving, highly dynamic action does not allow for optimum screen captures, and the quality of the print seriously reduces precise identification of the devices seen in the space of three minutes. A fine and high quality copy could change the following inventory.
Travel Air 4000
(foreground) without spinner :
Three Types
1 : ? ;
2 and 3 : Garland-Lincoln LF-1;
4 : ?
Luftstreitkräfte
Fokker D.VII and Travel Air Model B "Wichita Fokker" flying with ?
Unidentified Aircraft
Luftstreitkräfte :
Acting as a French Aéronautique militaire aircraft :
Winner and his defeated :
Garland-Lincoln LF-1
Unidentified Aircraft
At home, War is not against ennemy but physics ...
Tail over the control tower of at Los Angeles Metropolitan Airport.
Airco DH.4
Curtiss Oriole
Unidentified Aircraft
Maybe an Airco DH.4 ?
Fokker T-2
Built as Fokker F.IV and registered A.S.64233.
First nonstop U.S. transcontinental flight in 1923. Two failed attempts at a west-to-east crossing were followed by a successful east-to-west flight when Air Service Lieutenants Oakley Kelly and John Macready succeeded on 2 and 3 May (from Long Island, New York to Rockwell Field, San Diego, California). Now preserved in the National Air and Space Museum (the Smithsonian), Washington, DC., USA.
Same aircraft in other movies at Frequently Seen Aircraft (Military Fixed-Wing).
Douglas World Cruiser
The four-ship start for the round-the-world trip (1924).
SIAI S.16 Ter
1925: Italian aviator Francesco de Pinedo (1890–1933), made a record-setting flight from Sesto Calende, Lake Maggiore (Italian-Swiss boundary) to Australia and Tokyo (Japan) and back to Rome, Italia.
Fokker F.VIIa/3M
Reg. N267 Fokker F.VIIa/3M Josephine Ford c/n 600 of the Byrd Arctic Expedition but owned by the Ford Motor Company. Christened after Josephine Clay Ford, the daughter of Ford Motor Company president Edsel Ford, who helped finance the expedition.
A controversy arose over whether or not Byrd and his pilot Floyd Bennett actually reached the North Pole on May 9, 1926. If not, on May 12, 1926, the airship Norge that flew from Spitsbergen (Svalbard) to Alaska nonstop did it with a crew including Roald Amundsen and Umberto Nobile as told in Titina.
Travel Air 2000
(foreground) Reg. NC3557 Travel Air 2000 c/n 276.
Potez 28/2
Only two Potez 28 were built in two variants, both designed for record breaking. Manned by the Arrachart brothers (Captain Ludovic and Paul), the Potez 28/2 (Potez GR.28 as read in the newpapers of the time) beat the straight-line distance record by covering 4.313 kimometres from Le Bourget (France) to Basra (Iraq) on June 26 and 27, 1926 (2,680 mi in 26 hours 30 min).
The fictional newspaper Los Angeles Chronicle with a title slighty wrong... but the picture is the good one.
Lockheed Vega Model 1
First seen as a desk model :
Reg. NC7044 Lockheed Vega Model 1 (c/n 11) delivered on July 31, 1928.
Same aircraft in other movies at Frequently Seen Aircraft (Civil Fixed-Wing).
First owned by Maddux Airlines which sold it on March 1930. On December 4, 1935, its sixth buyer was Loren L. Miles who christened the plane Miss Patricia then Miss Patsy.
For the filming, the small graphic worn between the engine and the arrow's head was removed and the registration changed into NX704. Sometimes later, NC7044 went into storage and Loren L. Miles was killed in action during World War Two. On August 17, 1945, NC7044 came out of storage and was sold to a pilot who had an accident with it before the end of the year. Repaired, it was sold (4 times until 1949). It was then used for 3 years by the same midwestern owner who changed its engine and based it for the first time outside the west coast. Last record flight in 1952 (?) when it was sold for 300 US dollars and laid derelic (the engine was quickly unassembled and sold). As of March 15, 1955 it was reported “permanently retired from service”. Ultimate fate precisely unknown.
Acting here a prototype designed to compete for the Orteig Prize to fly non-stop from New York City to Paris or vice versa... and christened Miss Patricia ... when the film's heroine is Peggy !
Budd BB-1 Pioneer
Reg. NR749N Budd BB-1 Pioneer ?
This unique experimental American flying boat relies on the Savoia-Marchetti S.56 design. Constructed entirely of stainless steel in spite of wood and fabric for the S.56.
It would have flown a thousand hours before being placed on permanent display outside the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) where it can still be found today (2025).
Information is patchy, and some believe that the plane was exhibited as early as 1935. Or was it only exhibited a few years later, at least after the filming of this movie?
Rescueing the Lockheed Vega, obviously filmed in studio. Footage combining the use of scenery (landing and takeoff) and the real seaplane as seen here:
Fokker C-2
Replica (or modified Fokker F.VII ?) acting as the NX206 Fokker C-2 c/n 3 (a military transport version of the Fokker F.9, itself an American-built version of the Fokker F.VIIB-3m) that was flown in 1927 by Richard E. Byrd, Bernt Balchen, George Otto Noville and Bert Acosta on their transatlantic flight, the first airmail flight between USA and Europe.
America ditched a few dozen metres from the beach of Ver-sur-Mer (Calvados department, Normandy, France) after running out of fuel and having been lost in thick fog for several hours on 1 July 1927.
Unidentified Aircraft
Instrument panel of an Unidentified Aircraft : not the Lockheed Vega nor the Ryan NYP nor the amphibian;
Ryan Brougham B1 (modified)
Ryan B-1 "Brougham" used as the basis of a reproduction of the Ryan NYP Spirit of Saint-Louis and seen only taxiing, so not the action of the historical take-off on May 20, 1927 as the script would have us believe.
Vultee V-1
Full-scale mock-up of a future Falconer project (what seems to be a wood layout Vultee V-1).
Boeing 247D
Eventually the new Falconer is portrayed by a Boeing 247.
Reg. NX13382 (real : NC13362) Boeing 247D built c/n 1948 delivered in October 1934 to United Airlines. Exported in Colombia on August 1938 and registered there as C-148 and later HK-148 (after 1946).
Hamilton Airliner
Hamilton H-45 or H-47 depending the Pratt & Whitney engine powering the airframe, which is impossible to distinguish which of the two.
Stearman 4
Registration could be NR785(N or H) (but nothing close on Civil Aircraft Register (United States) tables) for this red aircraft.
Unidentified yellow aircraft in the background.
Boeing P-12
Boeing P-12 ready to compete with the Falconer prototype.
Generic Military Aircraft (Models)
Various Aircraft
In the background, two 'Falconer' (Boeing 247).
(right) North American AT-6 Texan behind an unidentified aircraft fitted with a three-blade propeller.
(left edge) just the propeller of an unidentified aircraft, maybe a Ryan ST or the (Phillips) Aeroneer 1-B ?
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