Lord of the Flies movie mystery photo.

[Graeme]

At the start of the movie you see this...

 

[Graeme]

The kid with the picture - what is that? Six engines?
Is he holding it upside down?

 

[Graeme]

The spacing looks wrong for a Bv-222...

 

[Graeme]

Then again, maybe it's just a fake photo, especially when you consider the 6-engine Comet seen in the movie as well......

Lord of the Flies (1963) - The Internet Movie Plane Database

 

[Wurger]

It looks to me like a big flying boat rather.

 

[Gastounet]

I think the engines are very close and I wonder how the propellers do not knock

 

[vikingBerserker]

The engines look like they are too close to each other to be props.

 

[Wurger]

If these would be the jet engines the location of them was fine.

 

[herman1rg]

Could it be a Sauders-Roe Princess?

 

[fubar57]

Looks like it has a "T" tail to me and something under the wings near the tips

 

[Wurger]

Looks like it has a "T" tail to me and something under the wings near the tips

Exactly I got the same impression.

 

[stona]

Could it be a Sauders-Roe Princess?

I think that's a good call.

It didn't have a T-tail, but the horizontal stabilisers were high on the fin. The overall shape certainly fits, at least as far as it can be discerned from that image.

Cheers

Steve

 

[fubar57]

Very similar but the tail isn't right unless there were other variants...

 

[Wurger]

IMHO you are right Geo.

 

[stona]

I'm not so sure, if you see the 'Princess' in profile, the tailplane is quite high. It's hard to tell exactly what's going on at the back in the grainy image from the film.
Cheers
Steve

 

[Wurger]

But the 'Princess' horizontal stabilizres are of a dihedral what should be noticed in the pic though.

 

[fubar57]

This is the best I could find. It's just that the grainy photo shows the stabilizers as quite flat and the Princess has dihedral...

Is it possible that the film photo isn't even a real aircraft?

 

[Wurger]

Also it might have been a pencil sketch so the SF is possible.

 

[stona]

This is the best I could find. It's just that the grainy photo shows the stabilizers as quite flat and the Princess has dihedral...

Yes, you are correct.

Is it possible that the film photo isn't even a real aircraft?

I suppose yes again

Cheers

Steve

 

[Shortround6]

Picture of model or toy?