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Old 19th Sep 2004, 14:02
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JDK
 
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Hmm, not quite, Notsofantastic.

Herge (George Remi) drew the original Tintins himself, and the aircraft depicted were very mich in the Mickey Mouse cartoon style. When he got to redrawing the strips, they had technical details contracted out, and identifiable aircraft in some of the adventures are as follows:

The Black Island:
P-47,
Chipmunk,
Prentice,
Tiger Moth,
Trident

Tintin in Tibet
DC-3

The Red Sea Sharks
Spitfire
Mosquito (mythical FB version)
DC-3

The earlier version of the Red Sea Sharks had a Hawker Hart family biplane instead of the Spitfire. Technically, these later strips were actually very accurate. The only original one avaliable today is 'Tintin in the Land of the Soviets' where Tintin carves a prop for his plane! The planes are cartoon, but one of the cars is clearly a Bugatti.

I don't recall an a/c fitting the discription in one of the Tintin books, but there were some other strips by Herge Studioes, including one about a transatlantic race, which I think were Jo Zette & Jocko (SP?). Try some French websites.

Cheers!

James K
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