"Dave Kearton" wrote:

"William R Thompson" wrote:

| Okay, so all three machines are models. It's still a
| well-constructed diorama.

| They say that the wires which held up the fighting
| machines were invisible in the original Technicolor
| release of the movie, but they showed up when the
| film was reprinted in a different film format.

...and are clear copies of late-war German designs.

Hmmm . . . yeah, I can see the fighting machine's derivation from
the Triebflugeljager. Propulsion comes from a trio of impossible
support units, it's all built from unobtainium and no human being
could fly it. The Martian fighting machine could be on someone's
Luftwaffe-'46 (2046, that is) page.

But I'm sure that the aircraft in the foreground is a strictly American
design.

--Bill Thompson