Flying Wild
Movie (1941)
Also known as: The East Side Kids in "Flying Wild"
Starring:
Leo Gorcey (Muggs McGinnis)
Bobby Jordan (Danny Graham)
Joan Barclay (Helen Munson)
Dave O’Brien (Tom)
"East side kids" is a series of twenty-two movies and this one is the third.
Muggs loves Helen, a nurse who has eyes only for Tom, the test pilot of the Reynolds aviation factory.
Once he has an air accident, Muggs and all his friends try to find the traitor and spy that everyone guess.
Gee Bee Model Z Super Sportster
First part of the crash of Tom is illustrated by this footage of the fatal crash of Lowell Bayles on 5th december 1931.
Reg. NR77V Gee Bee Model Z is seen too among DVD 11 of Wings of Russia (page 2).
Bellanca J-3-500
The action ended by the fatal crash of De Pinedo during his failed take-off to Bagdad; same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.
Ford 4-AT-35 Trimotor
The flying ambulance in which Helen works.
Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.
Most of the time, a whimsical decor is used (a round fuselage instead the square one of the Ford).
Lockheed Vega 5C
Registration NC19958, c/n 102 built in 1929. Same aircraft in other works at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft (Civil Fixed-Wing).
Lockheed 12A Electra Junior
Lockheed Hudson
Lockheed Hudson awaiting their delivery to the R.A.F.
Bellanca CH-400 Skyrocket
Harlow PC-4
Travel Air Type R Mystery S
Only the tail and registration code on the right of the image. Flown by Florence "Pancho" Barnes before being sold to Paul Mantz who used it in several movies.
Waco EQC
Unidentified Aircraft
Perhaps a TAYLOR J-2 Cub (saddly, the registration is not fully visible).
Unidentified Aircraft
Seems to be a Piper or a Taylor but which model ?
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