By: Bombgone - 18th October 2013 at 18:43
I am fully engaged with the film at that point! No matter how many times I see it (and I know the aircraft comes to no harm) I am always on the edge of my seat willing the thing into the air!
As Peter O’Toole say’s. “Fly Yah B******d Fly!” When shown after 9pm of course.
By: Creaking Door - 18th October 2013 at 18:09
And what is portrayed as someone who does not know how to fly is in fact a demonstration of someone who is very skilled.
I am fully engaged with the film at that point! No matter how many times I see it (and I know the aircraft comes to no harm) I am always on the edge of my seat willing the thing into the air!
By: J Boyle - 18th October 2013 at 17:48
Hats off to the late Frank Tallman…and the guys at Grumman.
For more on flying the Grumman Duck, read Tallman’s Flying the Old Planes, and there was an lengthy article about him, the aircraft and the filming in a period Flying magazine.
By: pogno - 18th October 2013 at 16:59
I love the enthusiastic flying in this film, you dont see vortices from biplane wing tips very often. And the amount of water the engine gets doused in yet still seems to run happily is amazing.
Its all in this clip of the best bits of the film(the flying that is).http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aED7xvYbMfw
And what is portrayed as someone who does not know how to fly is in fact a demonstration of someone who is very skilled.
Richard
By: Bombgone - 18th October 2013 at 13:31
Can you fly it? Yes but can you get it down again? Oh yes that I know I can do! Brilliant film. :eagerness:
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