Moggy, maybe Fifi was used for airborne shots, but was she airworthy at the time it was filmed?
Maybe a ‘ferry permit’ was aquired for a one time flight? From memory the ditching scenes were VERY realistic.
well, just found this, so stand corrected:
“Posted by Carl Stidsen on June 24, 2002 at 10:27:50:
In Reply to: Re: B-29 Location posted by Mark Milliken on March 28, 2002 at 21:32:38:
The Walt Disney Movie was called ” The Last Flight of Noah’s Ark”. It used B-29 45-21787 , later NACA 137 “Fertile Myrtle”(ex-Navy P2B-1S) for the flying scenes,( Registered N91329) and the carcass of the B-29 (inverted) as a raft. There were also a number of interior scenes of the B-29 that were made using other B-29 interior sections. It was a really stupid movie , made bearable only for some great flying shots of the B-29 ( before it “crashed” on a desert island).
It’s still around, presently owned by Kermit Weeks, registered N29KW.
: I worked at China Lake during 1978-79, when there were several B-29s parked in a boneyard north of the base central area. I climbed through one B29 and shot a roll of film. While I was there, Walt Disney Studios cut a B29 up and hauled off the fuselage for a movie called Robinson Cruso or something like that. Another B29 was flown out by a British restoration group. “
and here’s the link:
http://okwreckchasing.com/board/messages/315.html
The ‘other’ B29 that is mentioned, quite possibly the Duxford example…
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