I was watching an old favourite ‘Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade’ yesterday evening and I enjoyed the old Biplane and ‘Messerschmitt’ chase sequence and the events subsequent involving several ‘seagulls’ creating a rather bent ‘Messerschmitt’
Of course The Biplane in which The Joneses make their attempted getaway, from a zeppelin attached trapeze was a converted Stampe with a rear gunners position.
I’m certain I’ve seen this stampe someplace before although I can’t recall where.
I wondered if anyone knew the reg of this plane or had any pictures of the aircraft in it’s various guises, if it was the same plane in British markings as I’d seen before.
With regards to the ‘Messerschmitts’ AKA Pilatus Trainers in spurious German markings, wasn’t there a fuselage of one at Booker, is it still there? How is it looking?
By: DazDaMan - 5th April 2016 at 11:16
A quick Google brought up this nice shot…..
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By: Tom_W - 5th April 2016 at 11:09
The stampe was c/n 45, G-BHFG.
Hello Eric,
While you are correct in the fact that BHFG was contracted for use by the production company, unfortunately, due to damage sustained whilst in-transit, she was not used for any major scenes in the movie as the engineers were busy trying to repair her all through shooting out in Andalucia. Air Britain also corroborate that G-AWXZ was the actual aircraft used.
As Daz referred to the Aeroplane article fills in most of the blanks, there were only ever the two French P.2s used, Jacques Bourret’s and AJBS’s.
By: DazDaMan - 31st March 2016 at 09:03
There was a great article on the Pilatus P-2’s film roles in, I think, Aeroplane Monthly a wee while back. If anyone can pinpoint which copy it was, I’d love to get hold of it again.
By: DC Page - 31st March 2016 at 00:11
Here are some links and pictures of G-BLKZ and G-BHFG.
Mention of G-BLKZ being used in IJATLC:
http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?100409-Pilatus-P-2-Questions
Pictures of G-BLKZ at Duxford 2005-2006:
http://www.airport-data.com/aircraft/G-BLKZ.html
Accident details for G-BLKZ May 2008:
http://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=20381
Details and pictures of Stampe G-BHFG and Pilatus G-BLKZ:
http://www.impdb.org/index.php?title=Indiana_Jones_and_the_Last_Crusade
By: Southern Air99 - 30th March 2016 at 22:59
Isn’t the fuselage of G-BLKZ at Duxford, or was?
Edit: Just saw a picture in a website post dated 21.1.16 showing the fuselage at Newquay!
By: DazDaMan - 30th March 2016 at 21:26
The fuselage that was at Booker was a mock-up, but the real Pilatus was G-BLKZ, which I believe was written off a few years ago. It force-landed in a field, but (IIRC) was later vandalised beyond repair.
By: Southern Air99 - 30th March 2016 at 19:09
Ta, looks like She’s changed quite a bit from its film days, looking at what I assume are recent pictures of her.
By: ericmunk - 30th March 2016 at 19:03
I was watching an old favourite ‘Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade’ yesterday evening and I enjoyed the old Biplane and ‘Messerschmitt’ chase sequence and the events subsequent involving several ‘seagulls’ creating a rather bent ‘Messerschmitt’
Of course The Biplane in which The Joneses make their attempted getaway, from a zeppelin attached trapeze was a converted Stampe with a rear gunners position.
I’m certain I’ve seen this stampe someplace before although I can’t recall where.
I wondered if anyone knew the reg of this plane or had any pictures of the aircraft in it’s various guises, if it was the same plane in British markings as I’d seen before.With regards to the ‘Messerschmitts’ AKA Pilatus Trainers in spurious German markings, wasn’t there a fuselage of one at Booker, is it still there? How is it looking?
The stampe was c/n 45, G-BHFG.
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