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From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Nur Iskandar Taib)
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Subject: Re: Memphis Belle
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Date: 15 Oct 90 03:36:15 GMT
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From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Nur Iskandar Taib)

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I heard an interview with the producer on the BBC World Service.  When asked if
it was hard to get the equipment he said: "When we started there where only 12
flyable B-17s in the world, when we finished there were only 11 (through no
fault of our own)."  He said that during the filming they "usually" worked with
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What actually happened? I heard about a B-17 that crashed 
during the filming of a movie, but I wasn't sure if it was
THIS movie! Do the people who fly in them still wear para-
chutes, I wonder...

I still wonder where they got all those Mosquitoes for that
movie (I think it was called Squadron 603) about the attack 
on the german heavy water plant in a norwegian fjord. I ex-
pect most were models, but.. 

Do termites attack airplanes? Mosquito owners would have this 
one extra worry, I imagine!


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