Der Traum des Hauptmann Loy
Movie (1961)
Starring:
Horst Drinda (Capitaine Loy)
Christine Laszar (Caporal Doris Graves)
Ulrich Thein (Eddy Sharp)
Jana Brejchová (Patricia Binchy)
(Synopsis needed)
Lockheed 1049C-55-81 Super Constellation
Reg. F-BGNJ Lockheed 1049C-55-81 Super Constellation c/n 4519 of Air France. Upgraded to G standart in 1956, she was stocked after 24,000 flying hours in 1964. 1967 : registered as F-BRAD and used during the Biafra War (Air Fret then CATAIR). 1974: bought by Aéroclub de Nantes for display purpose (last landing on 12 May). 1997 : now property of the Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie de l'Aéroport Nantes-Atlantique; going under restoration. 2007 : unveiled in her first colors and registration. 2025: Still on display and open to public at Aéroscope de Château Bougon, near Nantes, France.
Same aircraft in other movies at Frequently Seen Aircraft (Civil Fixed-Wing).
Douglas DC-7C Seven Seas
Douglas DC-7C Seven Seas of PAA-Pan American World Airways.
Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star
Nose code 49-753 and 48-805 for these two Lockheed T-33s of an unidentified air force.
Convair 440-12 Metropolitan
SABENA was the customer of both the Convair 240 and 440, but in 1961 no more 240s were operated by the airline... if this is not an old stock footage ! (see next section)
Lockheed L049-55-26 Constellation
Reg. F-BAZB Lockheed L049-55-26 Constellation c/n 2073 delivered to Air France in October 1946. Sold to TWA in February 1950 (as N9410H). Broken up in 1964.
Same aircraft in other movies at Frequently Seen Aircraft (Civil Fixed-Wing).
Lockheed Super Constellation (model)
DEFA set for a North African airport (supposed to represent Tripoli).
Lockheed F-104 Starfighter
Mil Mi-4
Acting an US helicopter in Tripoli.
Ilyushin Il-18
Landing gear of an Ilyushin Il-18 (acting as the US airliner).
Super Constellation (set)
The USAF brings back NATO personnel from a joint exercise in Tripoli to Oslo, Norway in a Lockheed (C-121 logically). Despite several Super Constellation seen on the ground in Air France colors, once in flight, cockpit, cabin and cargo are 'Made for Movie' sets.
Unidentified Soviet Fighter
According the map seen at the Soviet headquater, somewhere between Gotland (Sweden) and Saaremaa (Soviet; today : Estonia) island, a Soviet fighter is intercepting the liner (once the spy had jumped through a hatch).
Most probably a Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17 (despite a mysterious black spot near the cockpit : shadow of the wing tank ? this tank was positioned further out and under the wing, not on the leading edge. So maybe the Mig-17 SN, an experimental variant with twin side intakes, no central intake, and nose redesigned to allow 23 mm cannons to pivot ? Unlikely due to the culture of secrecy within the Soviet armed forces, despite the fact that the concept is outdated (1953) and has been abandoned (as like the United States with the Grumman F9F-3 Panther BuNo 122562 (1953 too)). And the chin's fairing is too against this hypothesis. Wing seems a little bit too high but not enough to match with a Lavochkin La-15.
So what ?
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17F
Using their afterburner.
Mil Mi-4
Mil Mi-4 acting as a Search and Rescue American helicopter.
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