Just wondered if anybody else has seen this – I’m a self confessed rivit counter but somehow I have no problems with Pilatus fighters and Nazi flying wings – must be something to do with the whole 30’s image that the films tried to portray or maybe I just enjoyed the movies too much to care? There was a great thread a while back about movie errors – Indiana Jones didn’t seem to feature much?
Anyhow, there was an AN-2 in Airline markings and what I think was an AN-12 with larger radial engines in place of the turbo props to place it more in the 50’s? To me, it worked, South America, “frontier or bush flying”….
any views or thoughts ?
By: Simon Beck - 27th May 2008 at 03:03
I believe the An-2 was a Polish built “Colt” registered in
Alaska as N87AN.
The DC-3 appears to be Skip Evan’s one that was also
seen in “Pearl Harbor” (2001) in the final return scene.
I won’t be seeing the film till this Saturday but I think there
might be a Lockheed PV-2 in some airport shots?
Can’t wait to se these Sabre’s………
S.Beck
By: Scouse - 26th May 2008 at 23:14
Nagging mode on………………..
So it’s … La (Lavochkin), Pe (Petlyakov), Po (Polikarpov) etc.
MiG is the first letter of the join designers/founders name – Mikoyan AND Guryevich (where the Cyrillic letter i is the equivalent of the western &) – so it’s M AND G….. capital M, small i, capital G
Nagging mode off……
Ken
If it’s nagging you want, what about poor old Gorbunov and Gudkov – Lavochkin’s first were the LaGG-1 and LaGG-3, after all.
People have been sent to the salt mines for less:D
By: Bager1968 - 26th May 2008 at 23:01
Usually I get those right, including An… but somehow messed up yesterday. I’ll do better, mommy.
By: Flanker_man - 26th May 2008 at 09:09
That was the “radial-engined AN-12”. The tail & nose tell it is an AN-12, not a DC-4/6.
I also noticed the AN-2. And the DC-3 & Sabres (interesting 4-ship diamond formation, were they practicing for an airshow?).
Nagging mode on………………..
Please stop typing AN in caps……. 😮
The letters An are the first two letters of the designers last name – Oleg Antonov…….
So it’s An, not AN – same with Tu (Tupolev), Su (Sukhoi), Yak (Yakovlev) Il (Ilyushin), La (Lavochkin), Pe (Petlyakov), Po (Polikarpov) etc.
MiG is the first letter of the join designers/founders name – Mikoyan AND Guryevich (where the Cyrillic letter i is the equivalent of the western &) – so it’s M AND G….. capital M, small i, capital G
Nagging mode off……
Ken
By: Bager1968 - 26th May 2008 at 01:12
i think there was a 4 engined douglas aircraft in there too, one of the travelling scenes. though i have to admit it was a good action movie, the whole storyline i found extremely disappointing…
That was the “radial-engined AN-12”. The tail & nose tell it is an AN-12, not a DC-4/6.
I also noticed the AN-2. And the DC-3 & Sabres (interesting 4-ship diamond formation, were they practicing for an airshow?).
By: Nashio966 - 25th May 2008 at 15:39
i think there was a 4 engined douglas aircraft in there too, one of the travelling scenes. though i have to admit it was a good action movie, the whole storyline i found extremely disappointing…
By: DazDaMan - 25th May 2008 at 13:59
There was a thread about the Indy aircraft a long while back.
I seem to recall a DC-3, An-2 and a few F-86s in the Nevada sequences.
By: Consul - 25th May 2008 at 11:12
Enjoyable escapist fun I thought. The fact that this one is not only an adventure movie but goes increasingly toward sci-fi means that you have to suspend disbelief even more that for the previous ones. So it doesn’t seem to matter what the aircraft are (or are intended to portray) I suppose. That radial engined An-12 was a shock though:eek:
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