Flying Through Hangars

Was there not some mention in Alan Bramson’s book The Tiger Moth Story if Tigers being flown through hangars?
Many moons ago a WW2 pilot tried to tell me he had flown a bomber through a hangar but quite frankly I didn’t believe him, but of course someone on here may know otherwise!…..

There are at least 3 cases of ‘hangar’ being spelt as ‘hanger’ on this thread, in posts #2 (even in the title!), 8, & 13.:rolleyes:
Typos are fairly exceptable on forums but mispelling Hangar is a bit of a bad one.;)

To be fair, I had one of each in my #8. I had it correct the first time, but an error slipped in when I rewrote/edited it with new information. So in my case it was a typo…I do know the difference. 🙂
Sorry to offend your sensibilities. :rolleyes:

Please don’t tell the older lads, they’re terrible when we younger chaps make errors in school.
You didn’t go to a public school did you?

Were these hangers metal wire types, wooden or plastic?

Neat trick if its one of those wire ones doubling up as a car aerial ….

I’ll get my coat……

before I go, Flt Lt Lee was said to have flown through the number 3 hanger at Debden, and was also credited with returning from aerobatics with grass on his aerial. From scraping the ground I doubt, but a fine story to pass on !

Were these hangers metal wire types, wooden or plastic?

Pic of the Beech flying through the hangar in Mad Mad etc world 😀

http://gchudleigh.com/images/santarosaproof.jpg

Not quite flying through a hangar…but flying inverted under a fairly small bridge 😀
I suspect this has been linked on here before but may be of interest to those who have not seen it 😀

http://www.nearlygood.com/video/underbridgeinvert.html

I don’t think Debden opened until 1937, but it was used for the flying scene with George Formby flying through one of the hangars. The locals here still occasionally talk about it, along with the occasion in 1966 when Donald Campbells Bluebird was tested there and went off the end of main runway at some horrendous speed across the main road and into a ploughed field :eek::D

As to flying through hangers one Battle of Britain pilot Dickie Lee killed in the Battle .flew though debans Hangers for a film comedy 1936.
terry

Ye gads! What, flew through clothes hangers! And where did he do this, not Debden by any chance?!:rolleyes:

A bit of a light hearted subject !!…I have often wondered how many photos/film footage exists of pilots flying through hangars.I know it must have featured in a few 20’s/30’s movies (1 for sure,just cannot remember title).
Here is a link about ‘Swede Ralston’ who flew a T6 through the Airship Hangar at Tillamook and rolled inverted to exit upside down,but who was the other pilot to ‘fly through’ at tillamook.

http://www.nastillamook.org/faqs/misc/hangarplane.htm

cheers baz

As to flying through hangers one Battle of Britain pilot Dickie Lee killed in the Battle .flew though debans Hangers for a film comedy 1936.
terry

I knew that would bite me!

However ‘hangar’ and ‘hanger’ are two different things.

There are at least 3 cases of ‘hangar’ being spelt as ‘hanger’ on this thread, in posts #2 (even in the title!), 8, & 13.:rolleyes:
Typos are fairly exceptable on forums but mispelling Hangar is a bit of a bad one.;)

“Exceptable”? Acceptable to you perhaps, but not to me…..;)

Paul F

There are at least 3 cases of ‘hangar’ being spelt as ‘hanger’ on this thread, in posts #2 (even in the title!), 8, & 13.:rolleyes:
Typos are fairly exceptable on forums but mispelling Hangar is a bit of a bad one.;)

I’m pretty sure that that happens in the George Formby film “Its in the Air”-he has an accident involving a Fury (or similar) and goes flying by mistake!

wasn’t that Flt “Dicky” Lee of 85 Sq ? am not at home so can’t check my books, think its detailed in “Fighter Squadron at war” IIRC ?

I’m pretty sure that that happens in the George Formby film “Its in the Air”

We had a complete thread on this

http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=84305&highlight=%22George+Formby%22

Moggy

Its A Mad Mad Mad World

Yes, check out the 1963 comedy movie “Its A Mad Mad Mad World”. There were dozens of famous actors in the film, including Terry Thomas, Spencer Tracy, Phil Silvers, Mickey Rooney, etc.
Paul Mantz & Frank Tallman did some stunt flying, including flying a Beech 18 through a Bill Board. Not a hanger but a solid wall for him to look & aim for. I think the Bill Board was filled with styropor.
There are other funny flying scenes in the movie also, including the Standard J1 biplane from the Mantz/Tallman Collection.

As an aside … Norman Hanson – in his autobio ‘carrier pilot’ was based at Dekheila,Egypt,which was on the coast.He wondered why the seaward doors were always closed and asked the maintenance chief…who replied ”yes we could do with the extra light,but the pilots kept flying through the bloody thing” 😀

Sadly, that never ‘happened’… it was faked up using a Bede mounted on a pole and driven through the hangar with the pole mounted on a vehicle – I think it was a Jaguar. If you got Octopussy on DVD and run the sequence frame by frame you can see the pole and moving car!

thanks graham
Never seen it on dvd…always thought something looked a little odd though which is why I left my original comment as ‘possibly’,
I always thought it was a great movie opening sequence though 😀

regards baz

You got it …Abbot and Costello …will check title later 😀
Other one is poss Corkey Fornof in BD5J for the James Bond movie Octopussy

cheers baz

Sadly, that never ‘happened’… it was faked up using a Bede mounted on a pole and driven through the hangar with the pole mounted on a vehicle – I think it was a Jaguar. If you got Octopussy on DVD and run the sequence frame by frame you can see the pole and moving car!

And on a related note, in a circa 1973 TV film, Birds of Prey, two helicopters (a Hughes 500 & Alouette II/Lama) square off inside a hangar. Very impressive…looks like an old WWII airfield in the middle of nowhere…that should narrow it down.:D

Superb movie! The 500 also flies under a highway overpass at one point…..barely any clearance. Some serious flying in that one.

Paul Mantz is credited as being the first film pilot to fly through an hangar, which he did for the 1932 film Air Mail. I believe he used his civil P-12 variant for a smimilar scene for a WWII-era comedy.

And his partner, Frank Tallman, flew through one in a Twin Beech for It’s a mad,mad,mad, mad world.

And on a related note, in a circa 1973 TV film, Birds of Prey, two helicopters (a Hughes 500 & Alouette II/Lama) square off inside a hangar. Very impressive…looks like an old WWII airfield in the middle of nowhere…that should narrow it down.:D