"War of the Worlds" Aircraft - Crash Scene

"William R Thompson" wrote in message
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| 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.
|
| --Bill Thompson
|
|
|


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




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Cheers

Dave Kearton

"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

William R Thompson wrote:

"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




Kinda looks like a Beaver to me...

JT

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"Dave Kearton" wrote:

"William R Thompson" wrote in message
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| 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.
|
| --Bill Thompson
|
|
|


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

Not so fast Dave! :-)

From the trivia section of this film's entry at IMDB:

"Albert Nozaki based his designs of the Martian machines on the shape
and movements of swans."

It would seem to me that any late-war German designs would still be
considered top secret in the early 1950s when WotW was being produced.

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