633 Squadron Mosquitos

"Steve Hix" wrote in message
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"Richard Brooks" wrote:

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"Alan Dicey" wrote

Bf 108's (as "Bf 109's"), models.

Since they were building models anyway, why didn't they build models
of
the
correct aircraft type?


They did that for the Mossies! That's why they waggeled side to side
before
the props andspiiners shot out the front when hit.

The Bf108 trainers were also used for that bloody film I now forget
where
the train is stuck in the mountains and ole Blue Eyes almost makes it
but
gets shot in the back and lies dying on the tracks. Ahhhh Von Ryan's
Express methinks!

Pity, given that they used a real P-38 for some of the aerial shots.

Didn't the pair of 108s (painted in, IIRC some kind of spurious
desert/northern European camouflage) also fire rockets ?



Frank Tallman* flew it, and I was in high school at Newbury Park, a
couple-three miles from were he was staging out from the old strip
at Rancho Conejo airport.

I heard it flying overhead, and hotfooted it to the airport, where
I would have been on weekends anyway, and got to see it land and
take off, refueling between shooting sessions.

He let me climb up the ladder at the back of the cockpit to look
in a marvel at the front office...

If I ever had a chance to escape from a lifetime of chasing planes,
it was extinguished pretty much that afternoon.

* I'm pretty sure it was Mr. Tallman, the plane was one from the
TallMantz collection. I didn't ask at the time, just jumped for
the greasy ladder when he said "Hey kid, come on over for a minute..."
I think he was showing pity, I doubt that the drooling and small
whimpers were all that attractive. :}

Heh! In my day it was the obligatory dragging up to the front to say "Hi!"
to the steam engine driver.


Richard.

Subject: 633 Squadron Mosquitos
From: av8r
Date: 7/18/03 8:33 PM Pacific Daylight Time
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Hi

I met Frank Tallman the year before he died in a tragic flying accident.
He let me get into his Grumman Duck. Unfortunately I could not talk
him into cranking it up and going flying. We had a great chat about
all facets of aviation. He was a true gentleman and his death a great
loss to the flying community.

Cheers...Chris




The story goes that he was flying a B-25 in the Catch 22 filming. He had just
about finished when the director asked Tallman for "just one more pass for
protection". He was killed on that last pass.

Arthur Kramer
Visit my WW II B-26 website at:
http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer

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(ArtKramr) wrote:

The story goes that [Frank Tallman] was flying a B-25 in the Catch 22 filming. He had just
about finished when the director asked Tallman for "just one more pass for
protection". He was killed on that last pass.

Frank Tallman died April 15, 1978, by flying into a ridge in
bad weather near Palm Springs.

His partner at TallMantz, Paul Mantz, died during filming of a scene
for "Flight of the Phoenix" a few years earlier.

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"Kyle Boatright" wrote:

Frank Tallman crashed in the mountains in bad weather - he was probably scud
running. He was flying a twin, but not a warbird. I did a brief google
search to find the details, but no joy...

I remember when it happened. He was flying a light twin in
instrument conditions. Ground control gave him a vector, which
he took...too low to clear the ridge that was in the way.

IIRC, it was adjudged pilot error.