Hell's Angels

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Hell's Angels movie poster.

Movie (1930)

Starring:
Ben Lyon (Monty Rutledge)
James Hall (Roy Rutledge)
Jean Harlow (Helen)

(Synopsis:)

Zeppelin R Class

Worn the code L 32 of LZ 74, a R Class Zeppelin shot down over Essex on 24 September 1916.
Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.

Scale model of LZ 74, a Zeppelin R Class, reg. L 32.

Upper gunner post.

Same footage used 74 years later in The Aviator.

Scale model of LZ 74, a Zeppelin R Class, reg. L 32.

Unidentified Aircraft

To illustrate the bomber in distress, this shot of a half fuselage. Did it been shot from the wreckage of the Sikorsky S-29A or from another aircraft ?

Fokker D.VII

The two first screenshots are some of the scenes seen again in The Aviator.
Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.

Only seven Fokker DVII were found by the movie's team. To make a full squadron, Howard Hughes used several airplanes of similar shape, the Wichita Fokker (Travel Air 2000 slighty reworked). They were put always is the background for maximum realistic considerations (look the red arrow).