Breakaway
Film (1955)
Starring:
Tom Conway (Tom 'Duke' Martin)
Honor Blackman (Paula Grant…)
Michael Balfour (Barney)
Bruce Seton (Webb)
Brian Worth (Johnny Matlock)
Freddie Mills (Pat)
Suave, if a trifle elderly, private eye Duke Martin is on the trail of a secret formula and a kidnapped girl.
Douglas C-54 Skymaster & De Havilland DH89 Dragon Rapide
C-54 Skymaster to the right and Dragon Rapide in the background.
Douglas C-54 Skymaster & Douglas C-47 Skytrain
To the right, same C-54 seen above. C-47 Skytrain to the left, maybe the Eagle Airways seen below?
Douglas C-47 Skytrain
Vickers VC1 Viking 1B
Unidentified Aircraft
Engine overhaul workshop: are they Bristol Hercules 14-cylinder air-cooled engine powering the Handley Page HP.81 Hermes or those fitted to the Bristol Freighter?
Handley Page HP.81 Hermes IV A
Registration G-ALDK, c/n HP.81/12. Delivered new to B.O.A.C in October 1949. Sold to Britavia in June 1954. Withdraw from use in September 1956.
To the left, a Bristol 170 Freighter Mk 21 of Silver City Airways.
Percival Proctor
Reg. G-A??? doesn't help with more a thousand airframes built ...
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