Hi,
I was recently reading in a book about British Civil Registrations
that Slingsby created two Rumpler C.IV biplane look-a-likes
from Two Tiger Moths called the Singsby Type 58 Rumpler.
Thye were sent in 1969 to Tunisia for a Universal Pictures
movie being shot there. Does anyone know which film it might
have been?
It wasn’t Lawrence of Arabia, that was 1961 in Jordan with
John Crewdson’s Tiger Moths.
By: low'n'slow - 5th February 2011 at 15:32
Glad to have been of assistance Simon.
FYI, some additional storyboard images, featuring the Rumpler, are now on www.biggles-biplane.com
By: Simon Beck - 4th February 2011 at 22:28
Hi, great information here, thanks for clearing up the unknown title!
By: low'n'slow - 4th February 2011 at 14:04
Link here: http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=45681
Back in the days when I was (or at least flew) G-ASML!
By: DazDaMan - 4th February 2011 at 13:57
Mike, posts 3&4 cover that one;)
Yes they both still exist and both are still airworthy.The were not converted Tiger Moths, they are , as with our BE2, made from Tiger Moth components.
We did a whole thread on this topic a while back, with photos of the Laurence of Arabia Fokker D.VIIs, among others.
By: The Blue Max - 4th February 2011 at 13:43
Interesting. Are any of them still airworthy, or were they converted back to standard Tiger Moth configuration? The other way of looking at it is it’s a heck of a waste of good Tiger Moths.
Mike, posts 3&4 cover that one;)
Yes they both still exist and both are still airworthy.The were not converted Tiger Moths, they are , as with our BE2, made from Tiger Moth components. If they were Tiger Conversions they would be DH82a’s Modified and would have Tiger registrations!. As with the BE2 they are new type’s. The BE2 being a Boddington 001 and the Rumplers being Slingsby T58’s. 🙂
By: mike currill - 4th February 2011 at 08:23
Interesting. Are any of them still airworthy, or were they converted back to standard Tiger Moth configuration? The other way of looking at it is it’s a heck of a waste of good Tiger Moths.
By: daverdla - 4th February 2011 at 01:59
http://www.goldenageair.org/collection/1917_rumpler_c_v.htm
One of the Rumplers
By: low'n'slow - 3rd February 2011 at 19:37
Biggles Sweeps the Skies
No mystery! 😉
They were commissioned, along with a Sopwith Camel replica from Slingsby and our BE-2c replica for the film Biggles Sweeps the Skies.
The Rumplers were for some reason (perhaps resulting from an earlier factory fire at Slingsby) delivered too late to catch the boat to North Africa. The delay meant that the weather was then going to be too hot to safely fly the aircraft and this was one of the reasons that led to the film being dropped, before shooting started.
Both the Rumpler replicas survive in the U.S, while the Sopwith Camel replica is in store at FAA Museum Yeovilton.
By: J Boyle - 3rd February 2011 at 18:51
Shout at the Devil?
A Lee Marvin/Roger Moore film, IIRC, used some WWI-era replicas.
I ‘ve never seen the film, so I can’t be sure.
But it was filmed (or released) in 1976.
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