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Matt, a former B-17 captain, is now instructor in his own flying school. But a student breaks his only plane. Then, he meets Jo, a former WAAF he loved in England in 1944; as secretary of the CEO of the Willis Aircraft Corporation, she gives him the chance to become the test pilot of the newest rocket plane. | Matt, a former B-17 captain, is now instructor in his own flying school. But a student breaks his only plane. Then, he meets Jo, a former WAAF he loved in England in 1944; as secretary of the CEO of the Willis Aircraft Corporation, she gives him the chance to become the test pilot of the newest rocket plane. | ||
== [[:Category: Made for Movie | Willis JA-3 (fictional aircraft)]] == | == [[:Category: Made for Movie | Willis JA-3 (fictional aircraft)]] == | ||
− | + | Fictional rocket plane seen through a model... | |
[[Image:ChainLightning_JA-3_flying.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]] | [[Image:ChainLightning_JA-3_flying.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]] | ||
or through non flyable mock (built from a P-39). | or through non flyable mock (built from a P-39). | ||
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[[Image:ChainLightning JA-3_43mn35.JPG|thumb|500px|none|]] | [[Image:ChainLightning JA-3_43mn35.JPG|thumb|500px|none|]] | ||
[[Image:ChainLightning_JA-3_drag-chute.JPG|thumb|500px|none|]] | [[Image:ChainLightning_JA-3_drag-chute.JPG|thumb|500px|none|]] | ||
− | This | + | This fictional aircraft has an escape crew capsule, something rarely seen in aviation (and never at the time of the movie). |
[[Image:ChainLightning_JA-3_cockpit.JPG|thumb|500px|none|Ejection seen during a test in the wind tunnel.]] | [[Image:ChainLightning_JA-3_cockpit.JPG|thumb|500px|none|Ejection seen during a test in the wind tunnel.]] | ||
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[[Image:ChainLightning_F-86.JPG|thumb|500px|none|]] | [[Image:ChainLightning_F-86.JPG|thumb|500px|none|]] | ||
− | == [[:Category: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress|Boeing B- | + | == [[:Category: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress|Boeing B-17E Flying Fortress]] == |
+ | Serial 41-9125, named ''Prowler''. | ||
[[Image:ChainLightning_B-17F.JPG|thumb|500px|none|]] | [[Image:ChainLightning_B-17F.JPG|thumb|500px|none|]] | ||
+ | [[File:VideoScreenshot--HBO-undefined-4’28”.jpg|thumb|500px|none|"Prowler" name visible on the nose.]] | ||
+ | [[File:VideoScreenshot--HBO-undefined-4’31”.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]] | ||
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+ | == [[:Category: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress|Boeing B-17F Flying Fortress]] == | ||
+ | Serial 42-3360, c/n 8296. Carried civil registration N67974 and was painted with ''Naughty Nellie'' nose art for the film. Same aircraft in other works at [[IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft (Military Fixed-Wing)]]. | ||
[[Image:ChainLightning_B-17F_4mn32.JPG|thumb|500px|none|]] | [[Image:ChainLightning_B-17F_4mn32.JPG|thumb|500px|none|]] | ||
− | [[Image:ChainLightning_B-17_NaughtyNellie_4mn55.JPG|thumb|500px|none|B- | + | [[Image:ChainLightning_B-17_NaughtyNellie_4mn55.JPG|thumb|500px|none|]] |
− | + | [[File:VideoScreenshot--HBO-undefined-11’51”.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]] | |
− | [[ | + | |
+ | == [[:Category: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress|Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress]] == | ||
+ | A mix of real stock footage of B-17s in flight and shots of models. | ||
+ | [[File:VideoScreenshot--HBO-undefined-7’37”.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]] | ||
+ | [[File:VideoScreenshot--HBO-undefined-8’27”.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]] | ||
+ | [[File:VideoScreenshot--HBO-undefined-8’35”.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]] | ||
+ | [[File:VideoScreenshot--HBO-undefined-8’36”.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]] | ||
+ | [[File:VideoScreenshot--HBO-undefined-8’50”.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]] | ||
== [[:Category: Messerschmitt Bf 109|Messerschmitt Bf 109]] == | == [[:Category: Messerschmitt Bf 109|Messerschmitt Bf 109]] == | ||
A glimpse showing an exploding Bf 109. | A glimpse showing an exploding Bf 109. | ||
[[Image:ChainLightning_Bf-109_9mn05.JPG|thumb|500px|none|]] | [[Image:ChainLightning_Bf-109_9mn05.JPG|thumb|500px|none|]] | ||
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== [[:Category:Supermarine Spitfire|Supermarine Spitfire]] == | == [[:Category:Supermarine Spitfire|Supermarine Spitfire]] == | ||
Same aircraft in other movies at [[IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft]].<br> | Same aircraft in other movies at [[IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft]].<br> | ||
[[Image:ChainLightning_Spitfire_9mn09.JPG|thumb|500px|none|]] | [[Image:ChainLightning_Spitfire_9mn09.JPG|thumb|500px|none|]] | ||
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+ | == [[:Category: Unidentified Aircraft|Unidentified Aircraft]] == | ||
+ | [[File:VideoScreenshot--HBO-undefined-9’09” (1).jpg|thumb|500px|none|]] | ||
+ | |||
+ | == [[:Category: Focke-Wulf Fw 190|Focke-Wulfe Fw 190A]] == | ||
+ | [[Image:ChainLightning_Fw-190_JG1_9mn14.JPG|thumb|500px|none|Fw 190 A of JG1 'Oesau'.]] | ||
== [[:Category: Messerschmitt Me 163|Messerschmitt Me 163 B-1 Komet]] == | == [[:Category: Messerschmitt Me 163|Messerschmitt Me 163 B-1 Komet]] == | ||
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[[Image:ChainLightning_Me-163_9mn32.JPG|thumb|500px|none|]] | [[Image:ChainLightning_Me-163_9mn32.JPG|thumb|500px|none|]] | ||
[[Image:ChainLightning_Me-163_9mn33.JPG|thumb|500px|none|]] | [[Image:ChainLightning_Me-163_9mn33.JPG|thumb|500px|none|]] | ||
− | [[Image:ChainLightning_Me-163_9mn38.JPG|thumb|500px|none|A model B-17 put in front of a camera gun footage ?]] | + | [[Image:ChainLightning_Me-163_9mn38.JPG|thumb|500px|none|A model B-17 put in front of a camera gun footage?]] |
+ | [[File:VideoScreenshot--HBO-undefined-9’54”.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]] | ||
+ | |||
+ | == [[:Category: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress|Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress]] == | ||
+ | Stock footage of a B-17 emergency landing with the right gear not deployed. | ||
+ | [[File:VideoScreenshot--HBO-undefined-11’29”.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]] | ||
+ | [[File:VideoScreenshot--HBO-undefined-11’35”.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]] | ||
+ | [[File:VideoScreenshot--HBO-undefined-11’41”.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]] | ||
+ | [[File:VideoScreenshot--HBO-undefined-11’44”.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]] | ||
== [[:Category: Hawker Hurricane|Hawker Hurricane]] == | == [[:Category: Hawker Hurricane|Hawker Hurricane]] == | ||
− | On the wall, a poster of Churchill with the slogan : let us go forward together.<br> | + | On the wall, a poster of Churchill with the slogan: let us go forward together.<br> |
This displaying tanks and Hawker Hurricanes. | This displaying tanks and Hawker Hurricanes. | ||
[[Image:ChainLightning_Churchill-Hurricane_17mn.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]] | [[Image:ChainLightning_Churchill-Hurricane_17mn.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]] | ||
− | == [[:Category: | + | == [[:Category: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress|Boeing TB-40 Flying Fortress]] == |
− | + | Boneyard at Ontario Army Air Field (scene taken from the 1946 movie [[The Best Years of Our Lives]]). Serial 42-5833. Crew trainer for the YB-40 gunship. Tail number U-43, the U-xx format was used by YB-40s based in Yuma, Arizona. | |
+ | [[File:VideoScreenshot--HBO-undefined-20’19”.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]] | ||
+ | Further in the background is another Flying Fortress with 5275 on the nose. Maybe B-17F serial 42-5275. | ||
+ | [[File:VideoScreenshot--HBO-undefined-20’20”.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]] | ||
+ | |||
+ | == [[:Category: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress|Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress]] == | ||
+ | More Flying Fortresses at Ontario Army Air Field (scene taken from the 1946 movie [[The Best Years of Our Lives]]). | ||
+ | [[Image:ChainLightning_B-17_graveyard_20mn24.JPG|thumb|500px|none|]] | ||
+ | [[File:VideoScreenshot--HBO-undefined-20’27”.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]] | ||
+ | |||
+ | == [[:Category: Stinson 108|Stinson 108-2]] == | ||
+ | Registration NC907D, c/n 108-2907 built in 1947. | ||
[[Image:ChainLightning_Stinson_21mn04.JPG|thumb|500px|none|]] | [[Image:ChainLightning_Stinson_21mn04.JPG|thumb|500px|none|]] | ||
+ | [[File:VideoScreenshot--HBO-undefined-21’00”.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]] | ||
+ | [[File:VideoScreenshot--HBO-undefined-21’05”.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]] | ||
[[Image:ChainLightning_Stinson_21mn14.JPG|thumb|500px|none|]] | [[Image:ChainLightning_Stinson_21mn14.JPG|thumb|500px|none|]] | ||
== [[:Category: Douglas C-47 Skytrain|Douglas C-47 Skytrain]] == | == [[:Category: Douglas C-47 Skytrain|Douglas C-47 Skytrain]] == | ||
[[Image:ChainLightning_C-47_21mn34.JPG|thumb|500px|none|]] | [[Image:ChainLightning_C-47_21mn34.JPG|thumb|500px|none|]] | ||
+ | [[File:VideoScreenshot--HBO-undefined-22’03”.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]] | ||
+ | [[File:VideoScreenshot--HBO-undefined-79’01”.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]] | ||
== [[:Category: Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star|Lockheed F-80C Shooting Star]] == | == [[:Category: Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star|Lockheed F-80C Shooting Star]] == | ||
− | [[Image:ChainLightning_P-80C_21mn50.JPG|thumb|500px|none|]] | + | Buzz number FT-527, serial 49-527. |
− | + | [[Image:ChainLightning_P-80C_21mn50.JPG|thumb|500px|none|F-80C-10-LO buzz number FT-527 (s/n 49-527).]] | |
− | [[Image:ChainLightning P-80Ca.JPG|thumb|500px|none|F-80C-10-LO FT-500 (s/n 49 500).]] | + | F-80C-10-LO serial 49-552. Written off on 11 May 1951, either crashed on takeoff in South Korea or shot down over North Korea.<br> |
− | [[Image:ChainLightning P-80Cb.JPG|thumb|500px|none|F-80C-10-LO FT-500 (s/n 49 500).]] | + | Further behind might be FT-546, s/n 49-546. |
+ | [[File:VideoScreenshot--HBO-undefined-37’05”.jpg|thumb|500px|none|F-80C-10-LO buzz number FT-552 (s/n 49-552).]] | ||
+ | Buzz number FT-544, serial 49-544. | ||
+ | [[File:VideoScreenshot--HBO-undefined-40’47”.jpg|thumb|500px|none|F-80C-10-LO buzz number FT-544 (s/n 49-544).]] | ||
+ | Tail at left. Buzz number FT-510, serial 49-510. Crashed on 9 October 1950 near Indian Springs, Nevada, killing the pilot. | ||
+ | [[File:VideoScreenshot--HBO-undefined-43’38”.jpg|thumb|500px|none|F-80C-10-LO buzz number FT-510 (s/n 49-510).]] | ||
+ | Buzz number FT-500, serial 49-500. Ditched into the sea off North Korea after being damaged on 24 August 1951, pilot killed. | ||
+ | [[Image:ChainLightning P-80Ca.JPG|thumb|500px|none|F-80C-10-LO buzz number FT-500 (s/n 49-500).]] | ||
+ | [[Image:ChainLightning P-80Cb.JPG|thumb|500px|none|F-80C-10-LO buzz number FT-500 (s/n 49-500).]] | ||
+ | Buzz number FT-508, serial 49-508. Crashed 25 February 1955 off of Daytona Beach, Florida, pilot killed. | ||
+ | [[File:VideoScreenshot--HBO-undefined-43’53”.jpg|thumb|500px|none|F-80C-10-LO buzz number FT-508 (s/n 49-508).]] | ||
+ | [[File:VideoScreenshot--HBO-undefined-43’58”.jpg|thumb|500px|none|F-80C-10-LO buzz number FT-508 (s/n 49-508).]] | ||
− | == | + | == [[:Category: Martin M-130|Martin M-130]] == |
A desk model. | A desk model. | ||
[[Image:ChainLightning_Sikorsky_VS44.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]] | [[Image:ChainLightning_Sikorsky_VS44.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]] | ||
− | == [[:Category: | + | == [[:Category: Unidentified Aircraft|Unidentified Douglas Airliner]] == |
− | + | Very likely a DC-4, 6, or 7 on the poster, at left. | |
[[Image:ChainLightning_Douglas.JPG|thumb|500px|none|Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress.]] | [[Image:ChainLightning_Douglas.JPG|thumb|500px|none|Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress.]] | ||
− | == [[:Category: Douglas DC- | + | == [[:Category: Douglas DC-6|Douglas DC-6]] == |
− | In the background, a Douglas | + | In the background, a Douglas DC-6 of [[:Category: American Airlines|American Airlines]]. |
− | [[Image:ChainLightning_Douglas_1h18.JPG|thumb|500px|none|Douglas DC- | + | [[Image:ChainLightning_Douglas_1h18.JPG|thumb|500px|none|Douglas DC-6 of [[:Category: American Airlines|American Airlines]].]] |
== [[:Category: Lockheed Constellation|Lockheed L-649 Constellation]] == | == [[:Category: Lockheed Constellation|Lockheed L-649 Constellation]] == | ||
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{{footnote}} | {{footnote}} | ||
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== See also == | == See also == | ||
− | * [ | + | * [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042324/ Chain Lightning at IMDb] |
− | * [ | + | * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_Lightning_%28film%29 Chain Lightning at Wikipedia] |
+ | * [https://www.imcdb.org/movie_42324-Chain-Lightning.html Chain Lightning at IMCDb] | ||
[[Category: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress]] | [[Category: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress]] | ||
[[Category: Douglas C-47 Skytrain]] | [[Category: Douglas C-47 Skytrain]] | ||
− | [[Category: Douglas DC- | + | [[Category: Douglas DC-6]] |
[[Category: Focke-Wulf Fw 190]] | [[Category: Focke-Wulf Fw 190]] | ||
[[Category: Hawker Hurricane]] | [[Category: Hawker Hurricane]] | ||
[[Category: Lockheed Constellation]] | [[Category: Lockheed Constellation]] | ||
[[Category: Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star]] | [[Category: Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star]] | ||
+ | [[Category: Martin M-130]] | ||
[[Category: Messerschmitt Bf 109]] | [[Category: Messerschmitt Bf 109]] | ||
[[Category: Messerschmitt Me 163]] | [[Category: Messerschmitt Me 163]] | ||
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[[Category: Supermarine Spitfire]] | [[Category: Supermarine Spitfire]] | ||
[[Category: Made for Movie]] | [[Category: Made for Movie]] | ||
+ | [[Category: Unidentified Aircraft]] | ||
+ | [[Category: American Airlines]] | ||
[[Category: Eastern Air Lines]] | [[Category: Eastern Air Lines]] |
Revision as of 02:20, 17 January 2024
Movie (1950)
French title : Pilote du diable
Starring:
Humphrey Bogart (Lt. Col. Matthew "Matt" Brennan)
Eleanor Parker (Joan "Jo" Holloway)
Raymond Massey (Leland Willis)
Richard Whorf (Carl Troxell)
Matt, a former B-17 captain, is now instructor in his own flying school. But a student breaks his only plane. Then, he meets Jo, a former WAAF he loved in England in 1944; as secretary of the CEO of the Willis Aircraft Corporation, she gives him the chance to become the test pilot of the newest rocket plane.
Willis JA-3 (fictional aircraft)
Fictional rocket plane seen through a model...
or through non flyable mock (built from a P-39).
This fictional aircraft has an escape crew capsule, something rarely seen in aviation (and never at the time of the movie).
North American F-86 Sabre
Seen from the soil and playing the flying JA-3.
Boeing B-17E Flying Fortress
Serial 41-9125, named Prowler.
Boeing B-17F Flying Fortress
Serial 42-3360, c/n 8296. Carried civil registration N67974 and was painted with Naughty Nellie nose art for the film. Same aircraft in other works at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft (Military Fixed-Wing).
Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress
A mix of real stock footage of B-17s in flight and shots of models.
Messerschmitt Bf 109
A glimpse showing an exploding Bf 109.
Supermarine Spitfire
Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.
Unidentified Aircraft
Focke-Wulfe Fw 190A
Messerschmitt Me 163 B-1 Komet
Several scenes displaying glimpses of the german rocket fighter.
Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress
Stock footage of a B-17 emergency landing with the right gear not deployed.
Hawker Hurricane
On the wall, a poster of Churchill with the slogan: let us go forward together.
This displaying tanks and Hawker Hurricanes.
Boeing TB-40 Flying Fortress
Boneyard at Ontario Army Air Field (scene taken from the 1946 movie The Best Years of Our Lives). Serial 42-5833. Crew trainer for the YB-40 gunship. Tail number U-43, the U-xx format was used by YB-40s based in Yuma, Arizona.
Further in the background is another Flying Fortress with 5275 on the nose. Maybe B-17F serial 42-5275.
Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress
More Flying Fortresses at Ontario Army Air Field (scene taken from the 1946 movie The Best Years of Our Lives).
Stinson 108-2
Registration NC907D, c/n 108-2907 built in 1947.
Douglas C-47 Skytrain
Lockheed F-80C Shooting Star
Buzz number FT-527, serial 49-527.
F-80C-10-LO serial 49-552. Written off on 11 May 1951, either crashed on takeoff in South Korea or shot down over North Korea.
Further behind might be FT-546, s/n 49-546.
Buzz number FT-544, serial 49-544.
Tail at left. Buzz number FT-510, serial 49-510. Crashed on 9 October 1950 near Indian Springs, Nevada, killing the pilot.
Buzz number FT-500, serial 49-500. Ditched into the sea off North Korea after being damaged on 24 August 1951, pilot killed.
Buzz number FT-508, serial 49-508. Crashed 25 February 1955 off of Daytona Beach, Florida, pilot killed.
Martin M-130
A desk model.
Unidentified Douglas Airliner
Very likely a DC-4, 6, or 7 on the poster, at left.
Douglas DC-6
In the background, a Douglas DC-6 of American Airlines.
Lockheed L-649 Constellation
And now, a Lockheed Constellation of Eastern Air Lines, then should be a L-649.
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See also
- Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress
- Douglas C-47 Skytrain
- Douglas DC-6
- Focke-Wulf Fw 190
- Hawker Hurricane
- Lockheed Constellation
- Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star
- Martin M-130
- Messerschmitt Bf 109
- Messerschmitt Me 163
- North American F-86 Sabre
- Stinson 108
- Supermarine Spitfire
- Made for Movie
- Unidentified Aircraft
- American Airlines
- Eastern Air Lines