My son was watching this Laurel and Hardy film and there was a scene at the end with some pretty good stunt flying with a radial engined high wing monoplane. My question is does anyone who is familiar with this film know what type it is?. It was the only part that grabbed my attention, as I’m not much of a Laurel and Hardy fan. Anyway thanks in anticipation.
By: J Boyle - 1st April 2017 at 00:21
There ARE a race of super beavers in Idaho. Soon all mankind will be subservient to the Great King Beaver (BTW: King Beaver was the original name for the DHC 3… better known as the otter). It’s still largely the way it looks in the film, as might be expected for an area about the size of England with only 1.3 million people.
Oddly, I just returned from a tour of a school chum’s recently acquired 45 acre Idaho back country property. Lovely place….but hardly user friendly, you have to dig a well, put in a septic system, use solar power or install water turbines in the creek. Of course, first you have to grade a road to the home site. Not exactly pre-fab suburbia.
To answer your question…for those of you who haven’t watched the film…spoiler alert….
The state developed crates with a door that would spring open on contact.
The parachutes were modified war surplus units which were then inexpensive and plentiful.
Nowadays, I suppose they’d use helicopters….so you’d likely have bearers flying around in squirrels.
By: avion ancien - 31st March 2017 at 17:57
How on earth did they train the beavers to pull the ripcord? And how did the beavers free themselves from the parachute harness after landing? If they couldn’t, it must have been difficult for those beavers to swim upstream with a parachute filling with water and dragging them back downstream. If they overcame this obstacle, has natural selection now resulted in a race of super beavers living in Idaho?
By: J Boyle - 31st March 2017 at 05:09
For more of the 6000 on the “Silver Screen”, watch the classic Only Angles Have Wings.
Or if you want to see one on color, search you tube to see the recently rediscovered 1950s documentary titled Fur for the Future..about, well, parachuting beavers, a method to reintroduce the animals to remote parts of Idaho.
By: Sopwith - 30th March 2017 at 22:19
Thanks Auster Fan for the reply. I did think maybe Travel Air or Bellanca but wasn’t sure.
By: Auster Fan - 30th March 2017 at 19:24
Travel Air 6000
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