No Highway In the Sky

[Subdeacon Joe]

Good movie

 

 

 

 

[Cheyenne Ranger, 48747L]

have to admit the airplane didn't look real--cartoonish was how I saw it

 

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[Alpo]

That might have been for legal reasons. It's been a while since I watched that, but if my memory is correct, there's this new airplane design and Jimmy was afraid the wings were going to fall off.

 

Now if they used a Douglas DC-3 or a Lockheed Constellation - a real airplane - and they made a movie about how it's wings were going to fall off - there is a massive lawsuit right there.

 

They would probably need to make sure that their "airplane that was going to fall out of the sky" did not look anything even similar to a real airplane.

[Subdeacon Joe]

57 minutes ago, Cheyenne Ranger, 48747L said:

have to admit the airplane didn't look real--cartoonish was how I saw it

 

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The Rutland Reindeer was a fictional aircraft.   A modified Handly Paige Halifax bomber was used for the movie. 

 

The movie sort of foreshadowef real life. A couple of years after it movie a de Havilland Comet crashed because of metal fatigue. 

Edited October 1 by Subdeacon Joe

[Tell Sackett SASS 18436]

8 hours ago, Alpo said:

That might have been for legal reasons. It's been a while since I watched that, but if my memory is correct, there's this new airplane design and Jimmy was afraid the wings were going to fall off.

No, he actually predicted the tail would fall off!

 

Great movie!

[J-BAR #18287]

Saw it as a 7 year old kid at a drive-in theater with mom and dad and kid sister when it came out in 1951.  
 

Just one more reason why I don't enjoy flying.