The Great Waldo Pepper

OT – Walmart may not be the answer

When “you all” come over to Texas, or the rest of the US, check the Walmart’s as I brought mine for $9.99 and have seen them there since then.

Cheers.

Lynn

LSM, It’s a Region thing, unless an individual has modified his/her DVD player. (Which isn’t difficult – it’s just a code modification, no chips – but getting the information “how* to do it is tricky) USA has Region 1 – they have Region 2. We have NTSC color standards, they have PAL, so the Walmart Region 1 products don’t tend to play in Region 2 Europe on unmodified equipment.

Goes the same way – I would like to get the Region 2 version of “Battle of Britain” (Collective groan by forumites) but haven’t modidifed my cheap Walmart DVD player.

Rob

PS Did I just type “color”? Resistance is futile. I’ve been assimilated.

OK, Blue Max, our guide at Creve Coeur claimed it was the Jenny used in the film, but now you’ve straightened it out, thanks! There are so many wonderful aircraft there that my camera was working overtime!

Could still be one used in the film as there were at least two, but it is a Standard and not a Jenny.

Parts of one of those ended up over here and was at Chilbolton Aviation many moons ago.

Probably the same parts that i saw at Ron Souche’s many moons ago as well! Belive they were off the one used in the crash scene, as the other two returned to Sywell

When “you all” come over to Texas, or the rest of the US, check the Walmart’s as I brought mine for $9.99 and have seen them there since then.

Cheers.

Lynn

The crash in the pond and at the munsy fair were both Tiger Moth/ jenny conversions similar to the ones used in “Villa Rides”

Parts of one of those ended up over here and was at Chilbolton Aviation many moons ago.

Should point out of Course that the Blue Max Museum is not a shrine to our own Blue Max even though one deals with WW1 aircraft and the other dates from WW1….
😀

TTFN

TT

That’s a cruel thing to say about Mr Bianchi!

Should point out of Course that the Blue Max Museum is not a shrine to our own Blue Max even though one deals with WW1 aircraft and the other dates from WW1….
😀

TTFN

TT

OK, Blue Max, our guide at Creve Coeur claimed it was the Jenny used in the film, but now you’ve straightened it out, thanks! There are so many wonderful aircraft there that my camera was working overtime!

My DVD copy of “Waldo Pepper” has a Swedish title “Tid för hjältar” but the audio is in English. I picked it up in a local supermarket sale for next to nothing but it works fine! It carries the reference number DVD 902 332 9 – 48.
Saw the Jenny at Creve Coeur, USA, in 2003.

What you saw there is infact a Standard Biplane and not a Jenny, well thats whats in your pic anyway. Both were in the film and many people confuse the two. There is also one of the Standard replica’s used in the film hanging in the hangar at Kermit Weeks Fantsay of flight.
I picked up my copy on Ebay for about a tener, same with a sweedish title on the cover but the disc i English.
The crash in the pond and at the munsy fair were both Tiger Moth/ jenny conversions similar to the ones used in “Villa Rides”

Many of the planes in the film (the real Jenny etc) came from the Tallmantz collection. For more on the history of those planes and Frank Tallman’s impressions on flying and restoring them read Tallman’s book “Flying the Old Planes” (1973).

According to a period article in Flying magazine, Tallman doubled for Redford…and joked that he wore a “Redford mask.”

Googling didn’t come up with much, except this rather natty model of it:

(pic: Maiden Model Products)

On a similar note, does anyone know the whereabouts of the Fokker Triplane? Would love to see a pic of that – has to be one of the more stunning schemes carried by the type!

The Sopwith Camel used in it was at the Blue Max Museum at Booker – I presume it has since gone to Compton Abbas with the rest of that collection?

Waldo Pepper DVD

My DVD copy of “Waldo Pepper” has a Swedish title “Tid för hjältar” but the audio is in English. I picked it up in a local supermarket sale for next to nothing but it works fine! It carries the reference number DVD 902 332 9 – 48.
Saw the Jenny at Creve Coeur, USA, in 2003.

The Styles Sky Streak was a Chipmunk modified for the movie and flown by the late Art Scholl, who later became an American aerobatic champion with a heavily modified Lycoming-engined, clipped wing, SuperChip.

I don’t believe that it was the same airframe, I think Art had quire a selection of moribund ex-RCAF airframes at one time. Sadly Art was killed during the filming of ‘Top Gun’, but I understand his son is now a film/display pilot.

I think most of the Jenny/Tiger Moth sequences were flown by the late Frank Tallman.

Come on Blue Max. Your knowledge on Tiger Moth-based film aeroplanes is required again!!

For Albert Ross.

The region 2 DVD is released. There are three available on E-Bay, numbers 6419136888, 6419818207 and 6420165502. Can’t be that rare! 😀

It’s supposed to be set in the 1920s, but the appearance of the Chipmunk and the Lycoming-engined Bucker Jungmeister completely ruin it for any knowledgable aviation enthusiast. Apart from that, it’s worth watching every time. I am also searching for a Region 2 DVD of it, but guess it hasn’t been released over here.

Is the ending the same in the book,the ending in the film lets you assume what happened without telling you.

Ahah thought that might have been it, definitely had something DH about it.

The film was directed by and flown by George Roy Hill, now deceased, who was also involved with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. There were no studio takes of airplanes. All scenes with Robert Redford climbing on the wing were done without security harness or parachute. Strange but true, that is my information! The filming was done in Texas. Don’t know about any connection with Chipmunks! :p

The “styles sky streak” was a modified chipmunk!