Just finished watching the Gene Hackman movie “Target” on the beeb.
At the end there is a scene where Hackman’s wife is tied to a bomb in an old hangar in what is supposed to be East Germany.
In the background there are what appear to be at least 5 disassembled radial engined Yak’s (3’s ?) I dont think they were simply “set dressing” as the whole place looked more like a storage hangar rather than somthing put together for a movie set.
There was nothing in the credits to indicate where this was filmed so does anyone have any idea of the location or the fates of the airframes concerned ?
By: Sage the Owl - 17th March 2009 at 00:19
Thanks for the info, you could be right about them being Yak 11’s, i’m not too up on my Russian aircraft.
By: T J Johansen - 16th March 2009 at 08:24
I’ve seen that movie. The aircraft were former Egyptian Yak-11’s, and I guess the scenes were shot at La Ferte Alais .
T J
By: Good Vibs - 16th March 2009 at 07:11
Yak-3’s & Yak-11’s
I have not seen the movie but “radial eng Yak-3’s” sounds like Yak-11’s.
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March 16, 2009 at 1:36 am