Flight of the Phoenix -1965

[Bodenplatte]

Having just edited the Wiki page relating to the Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar, I thought to take a look at some images and video clips from the 1965 film (the one with Jimmy Stewart, Richard Attenborough and Hardy Kruger).
The early flying and crash images show a C-119, but the plentiful shots of the aircraft lying in the sand, and gradually being dismembered are of the Fairchild C-82 Packet. The Boxcar was derived from the Packet, but the differences, particularly the position of the flight deck and windscreen, are very obvious.

 

[Goldbricker]

Honestly I assumed it was just a 119 until reading this. Even my little nephew loves this movie

 

[Bodenplatte]

I'm talking through my fundaments.
The C-119 shots come from the 2004 remake.
The original 1965 version are all of a C-82.
My mistake.

 

[ThunderBox]

Fascinating, so the original movie footage is all wrong? Who filmed it, the Daily Mail? Is it a film about a tank?

 

[Lacking Moral Fibre]

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