Just finished watching this film starring William Holden as an Edwards Air Force Base Test Pilot. All in glorious colour and with fantastic flying footage. Shame that there is the usual amount of romance in it but that’s Hollywood. It finishes with colour film of the USAF Thunderbirds flying F-84’s.
By: Vahe.D - 23rd August 2024 at 19:43
One interesting aspect of the 1956 film Toward the Unknown is the depiction of the first Martin XB-51 prototype as a fictional jet fighter, the Gilbert XF-120. During the filming of Toward the Unknown, the XB-51 with serial number 46-685 was en route to Eglin AFB to shoot additional footage when it crashed during takeoff from an airfield in El Paso, Texas, on March 25, 1956.
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November 12, 2003 at 3:37 pm