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Subject: [OM] Slightly OT: Rare Aircraft In Movies
From: Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 14 May 2016 13:13:50 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
     On weekends here one of the broadcast movie channels will show 
entertaining movies from as far back as the 1930s, a series known as "Popcorn 
Movies".  Today they started with "Robinson Crusoe on Mars", which is always 
worth watching.  But then they followed it with an obscure one, "Robinson 
Crusoe of Mystery Island", which was released in 1936.  I almost didn't watch 
this until I saw footage of the airship USS Macon (ZRS-5) being towed out of 
the hangar at Moffett Field:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Macon_%28ZRS-5%29

     Minutes later there is in-flight and landing film footage of a Sikorsky 
S-42 Flying Boat:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikorsky_S-42

and shortly afterwards there is footage of a twin-engined flying boat that I 
cannot readily identify.  It has the lines of a Grumman design, and it has 
three vertical stabilisers.

     The movie itself is a bit corny, but seeing these and possibly other 
aircraft makes it worth watching.


Chris

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro 
     - Hunter S. Thompson
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