Fatal Sky
Disambiguation : this page is dedicated to the 1990 science fiction thriller film; for the 1990 film about sky jumpers, look at Fatal Skies.
Movie (1990)
Alternative titles : Project: Alien
Russian title : Проект «Пришелец»
Starring:
Michael Nouri (Jeff Milker)
Darlanne Fluegel (Phyllis "Bird" McNamara)
Maxwell Caulfield (George Abbott)
Derrin Nesbitt (Arthur Corbin)
According the screenplay, action should be in Norway (but filming was in Yugoslavia). Some strange events in the air or on the ground occur in remote areas and Phyllis will help journalists to overthrown the military secret.
Piper PA-42 Cheyenne
T-tail twin turboprop aircraft. Beechcraft King Air is too wide.
The pilot declares an emergency and eventually crashes but no other sight than this view.
Various Civil Utility Aircraft
Piper and/or Beechcraft ? Twin-engine Cessna ?
Augusta-Bell 212
Reg. YU-HCB Augusta-Bell 212 c/n 5710
... but the (modified) registration is seen only at 1h10.
Reims-Cessna F172G Skyhawk
Reg. LN-DBN Reims-Cessna F172G Skyhawk c/n 211 (not the first LN-DBN, a Cessna 185B destroyed by fire in hangar in 1968).
WSK Mielec An-2
Reg LN-BMA Antonov (built by WSK Mielec) An-2.
No such Norwegian registration found but a Croatian 9A-BMA (a former Yugoslav YU-BMA) is now (2023) lying derelic on the Velika Gorica dump (South East of Zagreb, Croatia) since 2002. Despite heavy weathering and very poor surface state, paint seems very close to this main aircraft. This could be Antonov An-2R licence-built by PZL-Mielec c/n : 1G181-46.
Mil Mi-8
Unidentified Aircraft
Underslung.
SOKO HN-42M Gama
Soko J-22 Orao
Seen again in the last aerial action (continuity error mixing Panavia Tornado / Bae Hawk and this SOKO Orao).
Bell 206 JetRanger
Boeing 737-3H9
(right) Boeing 737-3H9 of JAT Yugoslav Airlines in the background.
Augusta-Bell 212
Augusta-Bell 212 with code 069 fitted with gigantic air to air missile and under fire, hit several times.
SOKO J-22 had two 23 mm cannons; Panavia Tornada is fitted with a 27 mm cannon and the Hawk could carry a 30 mm cannon in a centreline pod.
Each one fires a munition whose single shell would destroy the helicopter.
Despite no nationality nor roundel is visible, close-up display this code or ... the NATO logo !
Taking off with a full bomb load (8 !) which was never used on operation.
RAF 17 Squadron Panavia Tornado
BAE Systems Hawk T1A
Continuity error ...
Fictional Fighter
None of the fighter seen had such air intake (with a "mouse" or sonic cone as found on Dassault Mirage III or Lockheed F-104). Moreover, such air intake could not have a gun muzzle !
IAI Kfir C.1 (or F-21A)
Shape close to a US Navy F-21A (loan IAI Kfir C.1).
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