Chain Lightning
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
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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.
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.
Martin M-130
A desk model.
Unidentified Douglas Airliner
Very likely a DC-4, 6, or 7 on the poster, at left.
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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