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Marina Raskova, Soviet pilot the net
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....but at £195, no thank you! 
TWO LANE BLACKTOP George Lois CARL FISCHER Will Corry ESQUIRE 1971 April FASHION
TWO LANE BLACKTOP George Lois CARL FISCHER Will Corry ESQUIRE 1971 April FASHION
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cammerjeff
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Also a Bellanca 28-70 in the background? 2 of my favorate high speed wooden wonders.
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Nope. That's the Gee Bee QED. Just as cool, though!
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There were actually three dH-88 Comets built for the race and the two shown are Black Magic and the Irish one which had no name and was painted green.
In the 1980s the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC) contracted my company to build a full size fully powered but not flying replica which was repainted as necessary to represent the winner, Grosvener House, which is still alive and flying, and Black Magic. The mini series was called Half a world away.
Here are a few photos of the aircraft. After the filming was completed it was sold to a museum in the UK.
We could have built a fully airworthy replica for less money but the taxation laws required that from the day the film project was started until the completed film/series was on public display must be not more than one calendar year. Working 14 hour days seven days a week plays hell with the overtime penalty rates.
We built this replica in just 9 weeks using engines and props from a dH Heron and main gears from an Avro Anson.
All photographs are copyright Frank Mangano.
Repainting from GH to BM and vice versa was done on weekends. Repainting was done five times during the production.
Every aircraft in the hangar had to be covered with cover sheets in during painting for obvious reasons. Equally obviously all aircraft that were mobile were pushed outside while painting. We used Courtaulds aircraft paints because that was what Paintcare used on a daily basis. The floodlights were needed because much of the painting was done at night and had to be finished by midday Sunday so that the paint cured before loading on the trailer in the dark on Monday morning for transport to the next filming location up to 250 km away.
First engine start - idle only to make sure they worked..
The winner of the race was the Comet Grosvenor House with the KLM DC-2 (played here by a DC-3) coming second only because it became bogged near Albury and was delayed. From Schipol to Jakarta the DC-2 followed the normal KLM route with paying passengers and also had paying passengers from Jakarta to Melbourne.
The two actors who played Scott and Black are in the middle. I cannot remember their names but they were great people and insisted on several shots of them with crew members with this being my favourite.
First trial of the whole thing almost ready to move. It took less than two hours to load and unload the aircraft off the specially made trailer when finished. The fuselage was lifted by a built in hydraulic ram then rotated, leading edges removed and engines rotated, tailplanes and elevators removed and stowed in a box on the front of the trailer.
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Handley Page HP.47 , first flight on November 27, 1934 the net
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My first FROG kit.
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DINFIA IA 38 Naranjero 1959-1960 photo 10 the net
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Fokker C.VIIw 1931 the net
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Nancy Harkness Love and Loretta Young, 1943 the net
Good shots!
