Chain Lightning

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Chain Lightning movie poster.

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.

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 ejectable cabin, 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

B-17F (s/n 42-3360).

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

Fw 190 A of JG1 'Oesau'.

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.

F-80C-10-LO FT-500 (s/n 49 500).

F-80C-10-LO FT-500 (s/n 49 500).

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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See also

• Chain Lightning at IMDb
• Chain Lightning at Wikipedia