No Highway

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No Highway movie poster in the US title No Highway in the Sky.

Movie (1951)
AKA: No Highway in the Sky
French title : Le voyage fantastique

Starring:
James Stewart (Theodore Honey)
Marlene Dietrich (Monica Teasdale)
Glynis Johns (Marjorie Corder)
Jack Hawkins (Dennis Scott)
Janette Scott (Elspeth Honey)

An aerospace engineer predicts that a new aircraft the Rutland Reindeer will suffer a catastrophic failure when its tail falls off due to metal fatigue at a certain number of hours.


De Havilland DH100 Vampire

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Gloster E.1/44

Possible registration is TX145.

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Saunders-Roe SR.45 Princess

This British flying boat maiden flight occured the next year (1952). A model during fluid dynamics trials.

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Rutland Reindeer

A heavily modified Handley Page H.P.70 Halifax C.VIII to act as the new airliner that is the subject of the film.
Fake registration G-AFOH. This airframe was really c/n 1369, serial PP296 then G-AJNW once on the civil registry. Was scraped on Decembre 1950, not long after the filming's end.

NHITS Halifax 2.jpg
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Scale model of the above:

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Bristol 170 Freighter

In the background.

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DC-4 or 6

In the background. By night. (picture coming soon)

Avro Lancaster

Serial NX636.

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