I recall a French TV-series from around 1980/81 (?), that featured both the Salmson 2A2 replicas as well as a couple of Breguet 14 replicas. The series was about early French air mail pilots. I think that a Noorduyn UC-64A Norseman was converted into a Latécoere 25 (Not sure about the designation).

Incidentally, one of the Breguet 14s used was apparently F-AZBH, which is now on display at the Royal Thai AF Museum.

The link below has some useful photos and info on the Salmson 2A2:
http://groups.msn.com/Salmson2A2/_homepage.msnw?pgmarket=en-us

Regards,

Jan

TT,

You are most definitively forgiven! 🙂

Regards,

Jan

A good introduction to Swedish military aviation is Lars Henriksson’s web site, which can be found here: http://www.avrosys.nu/aircraft/index.htm

Papa Lima, would it be ok if Swedish forumites joined in as well?

Regards,

Jan

SE-BKH mentioned by FL200 is indeed alive and well. Some photos of her can be found here: http://web.telia.com/~u21804390/svw531e.htm

There’s also a static Proctor IV in Sweden, SE-CEA (p/i RM169 and G-ANVY). When the CofA was revoked sometime in the mid-1960s, the owner planned to convert her into a non-flying ‘Island-hopper’ in the Gothenburg archipelago. The conversion was completed, using floats from a Hawker Osprey, but I don’t know how much she was used, or for how long. Incidentally, -CEA was later preserved at the Kåremo Flygmuseum, but sold off when the museum folded during the mid-1990s.

Regards,

Jan

It looks as if the five transport aircraft in the Harare image are of different sizes. I would guess the three larger ones to be Casa 212s, along with two Islanders.

Regards,

Jan

I can thoroughly recommend the book ‘Nurflügel’, as it is the most comprehensive that has appeared in print on these revolutionary designs.

There is also the book ‘The Horten Brothers and Their All-Wing Aircraft’ by David Myhra. It’s expensive, though, at $59,95. More here: http://www.warbirdforum.com/myhra.htm

More on the Horten designs can be found here: http://www.nurflugel.com/Nurflugel/Horten_Nurflugels/horten_nurflugels.html

while a bibliography on the Horten and Northrop, among others, Flying Wings can be found here: http://www.warbirdforum.com/bibwing.htm

Regards,

Jan

sat2, Thanks.

It would appear that a few movie directors pay little or no attention if the aircraft featured in their film/s are of the correct type, markings etc. This may have something to do with the (hopefully untrue) assumtion that the ‘General Public’ doesn’t really care whether or not it’s a real Spitfire or Messerschmitt Bf 109, to say nothing of them being of the correct mark and painted in the correct markings. In the pre-CGI days, availability and cost would also have been prohibitive factors for historical accuracy.

However, some movie directors lack of knowledge of aircraft are, occasionally, hilarious. For instance, before Francis Ford Coppola began shooting “Apocalypse Now”, he contacted the RAAF in order to loan some of their B-52s! There’s also the example of the Finnish movie director, who, during the early 1980s, was about to shoot a film on the 1939-1940 Winter War. Regarding the aircraft to be used in the movie, he saw no problems in employing the Saab 35 Drakens and MiG-21s of the Finnish Air Force! 😮

Regards,

Jan