Trimotors, pt 6 - Martin XB-51 b.jpg (1/1)

"Towards the Unknow". I believe it was also James Garner's first movie. He
played the pilot of the ill-fated XF-120. The last I heard, it was caught up
in some legal problems, and has never been released on tape or disc.
Ron

"Bruce R" wrote in message
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"Mitchell Holman" wrote in message
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IIRC this a/c appeared in an old movie, "Test Pilot" if memory serves. It
was called the Gilbert X-20 or some such thing and the hero had problems
with the skin wrinkling up in 4 - G turns. Does anybody else remember
the movie, or what the correct name was?


Bruce

"Bruce R" wrote in
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"Mitchell Holman" wrote in message
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IIRC this a/c appeared in an old movie, "Test Pilot" if memory serves.
It was called the Gilbert X-20 or some such thing and the hero had
problems with the skin wrinkling up in 4 - G turns. Does anybody
else remember the movie, or what the correct name was?


Bruce



The previous picture is evidently a frame grab from the movie. "Toward
the Unknown", 1956.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toward_the_Unknown