"Thunder Birds" trailer - spectacular full-color flying scenes from 1942

[Hal Bryan]

This movie came up in conversation this morning, and I stumbled across this faux trailer - no (original) audio unfortunately, but beautiful shots of Stearmans, BT-13s, and T-6s. And Gene Tierney. ;)

It inspired me to finally replace my muddy old VHS copy with a DVD.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsUAovKzWSg


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsUAovKzWSg

[Hal Bryan]

Hmm... next year will be the 70th anniversary of the film's release. Fly-In theater, anyone?

[Chad Jensen]

I'll be there for that!!:cool:

[smutny]

Hey Hal, you forgot one plane in your list...

Boeing Model 100 - It's the one that dropped the flight suit to the poor towel-less lass. Probably Mantz's N873H, that plane was in a lot of movies of the time.

[Hal Bryan]

Oh, there *was* an airplane in that scene, wasn't there...? ;)

[Giancarlo Riolfo]

Nice flying stunts, but... who's the young beautiful lady?

[Hal Bryan]

Nice flying stunts, but... who's the young beautiful lady?

Hi Giancarlo - her name is Gene Tierney: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000074/

[Giancarlo Riolfo]

Oh yes, I've seen. She passed away 20 years ago. I just gave a look on Google and Wikipedia. Very nice and sexy woman and a great career on the stage and in the movies. I've also read about her health problems. Very sad.

[flyingriki]

She was beautiful!

What sort of flippy, floppy spin was that trainer doing?