Originally Posted by
Herod
Great film for the aircraft alone. Watch out for Jimmy Stewart's mistake. In the film he is supposed to be a B 17 pilot from WW2. In reality he was a B 24 skipper. When he is talking to his wife about the B 36 he says "I thought the B 24 was big, but oh, boy" I guess it was a Freudian slip, and no-one picked it up.
Maybe he was just supposed to be referencing what he [the character] had previously thought to be the biggest US bomber (regardless of whether he'd actually flown one). The B36 was more than double the span of either B17 or B24 (as well as having nearly 7 times the MTOW) so it would certainly have looked impressive to a former driver of either type!
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