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[[Image:ChainLightning_poster.jpg|thumb|right|350px|none|<i>Chain Lightning</i> movie poster.]] | [[Image:ChainLightning_poster.jpg|thumb|right|350px|none|<i>Chain Lightning</i> movie poster.]] | ||
<b>Movie (1950)</b> | <b>Movie (1950)</b> | ||
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Matt, a former B-17 captain, is now instructor in his own flying school. But a student breaks his only plane. Then, he meets Jo, a former WAAF he loved in England in 1944; as secretary of the CEO of the Willis Aircraft Corporation, she gives him the chance to become the test pilot of the newest rocket plane. | Matt, a former B-17 captain, is now instructor in his own flying school. But a student breaks his only plane. Then, he meets Jo, a former WAAF he loved in England in 1944; as secretary of the CEO of the Willis Aircraft Corporation, she gives him the chance to become the test pilot of the newest rocket plane. | ||
== JA-3 (fictional aircraft) == | == Willis JA-3 (fictional aircraft) == | ||
Fictionnal rocket plane seen through a model... | Fictionnal rocket plane seen through a model... | ||
[[Image:ChainLightning_JA-3_flying.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]] | [[Image:ChainLightning_JA-3_flying.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]] | ||
or through non flyable mock (built from a P-39). | or through non flyable mock (built from a P-39). | ||
[[Image:ChainLightning_JA-3_37mn44.JPG|thumb|500px|none|]] | [[Image:ChainLightning_JA-3_37mn44.JPG|thumb|500px|none|The undercarriage is clearly this of a [[:Category:Bell P-39 Airacobra|P-39]].]] | ||
[[Image:ChainLightning JA-3_43mn35.JPG|thumb|500px|none|]] | [[Image:ChainLightning JA-3_43mn35.JPG|thumb|500px|none|]] | ||
[[Image:ChainLightning_JA-3_drag-chute.JPG|thumb|500px|none|]] | [[Image:ChainLightning_JA-3_drag-chute.JPG|thumb|500px|none|]] | ||
This fictionnal aircraft has an | This fictionnal aircraft has an escape crew capsule, something rarely seen in aviation (and never at the time of the movie). | ||
[[Image:ChainLightning_JA-3_cockpit.JPG|thumb|500px|none|]] | [[Image:ChainLightning_JA-3_cockpit.JPG|thumb|500px|none|Ejection seen during a test in the wind tunnel.]] | ||
[[Image:ChainLightning_JA-3_cockpit2.JPG|thumb|500px|none|]] | [[Image:ChainLightning_JA-3_cockpit2.JPG|thumb|500px|none|]] | ||
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[[Image:ChainLightning_Me-163_9mn32.JPG|thumb|500px|none|]] | [[Image:ChainLightning_Me-163_9mn32.JPG|thumb|500px|none|]] | ||
[[Image:ChainLightning_Me-163_9mn33.JPG|thumb|500px|none|]] | [[Image:ChainLightning_Me-163_9mn33.JPG|thumb|500px|none|]] | ||
[[Image:ChainLightning_Me-163_9mn38.JPG|thumb|500px|none|]] | [[Image:ChainLightning_Me-163_9mn38.JPG|thumb|500px|none|A model B-17 put in front of a camera gun footage ?]] | ||
[[Image:ChainLightning_Me-163_9mn56.JPG|thumb|500px|none|]] | [[Image:ChainLightning_Me-163_9mn56.JPG|thumb|500px|none|]] | ||
Revision as of 15:27, 30 October 2012
Movie (1950)
Starring:
Humphrey Bogart (Lt. Col. Matthew "Matt" Brennan)
Eleanor Parker (Joan "Jo" Holloway)
Raymond Massey (Leland Willis)
Richard Whorf (Carl Troxell)
Matt, a former B-17 captain, is now instructor in his own flying school. But a student breaks his only plane. Then, he meets Jo, a former WAAF he loved in England in 1944; as secretary of the CEO of the Willis Aircraft Corporation, she gives him the chance to become the test pilot of the newest rocket plane.
Willis JA-3 (fictional aircraft)
Fictionnal rocket plane seen through a model...
or through non flyable mock (built from a P-39).
This fictionnal aircraft has an escape crew capsule, something rarely seen in aviation (and never at the time of the movie).
North American F-86 Sabre
Seen from the soil and playing the flying JA-3.
Boeing B-17F Flying Fortress
Later, graveyard of Flying Fortresses (scene taken from the 1946 movie The Best Years of Our Lives).
Messerschmitt Bf 109
A glimpse showing an exploding Bf 109.
Focke-Wulfe Fw 190A
Supermarine Spitfire
Messerschmitt Me 163 B-1 Komet
Several scenes displaying glimpses of the german rocket fighter.
Hawker Hurricane
On the wall, a poster of Churchill with the slogan : let us go forward together.
This displaying tanks and Hawker Hurricanes.
Stinson Station Wagon
Douglas C-47 Skytrain
Lockheed F-80C Shooting Star
Last check is done on FT-500 and FT-508.
Sikorsky VS-44
A desk model.
Unidentified Aircraft
Probably a Douglas airliner on the poster, at left.
In the background, a Douglas airliner; which one ?
And now, a Lockheed Constellation of an undefined type.
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