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Re: [OM] Slightly OT: Rare Aircraft In Movies

Subject: Re: [OM] Slightly OT: Rare Aircraft In Movies
From: Scott Gomez <sgomez.baja@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 16 May 2016 00:43:38 +0000
Only a single vertical stabilizer on the Dolphin, though, Chris.

On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 8:18 AM Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>      No, the 314 had four engines and was larger than the Sikorsky.  THis
> was a small 2-engined aircraft.  After pouring over a Wikipedia page
> listing all amphibious aircraft ever made, I found that it was a Douglas
> Dolphin:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Dolphin
>
>      Now that is one very rare sighting.
>
> >
> >Based on timeframe and the three vertical stabilizers, I'd guess the
> Boeing
> >314 Clipper.
> >On May 14, 2016 14:13, "Chris Trask" <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >>      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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> Chris
>
> When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
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