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Old 29th Nov 2007, 15:52
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The Duke flew P40s in The Flying Tigers. This included the famous out take of the chap walking across the sky outside the cockpit.

He also flew Hellcats in The Flying Leathernecks.

He also taught some Russian bint to fly a P80 in Jet Pilot. The pilot who did most of the flying sequences for this was Chuck Yeager.

That has just reminded me of the film The Sound Barrier which featured the prototype Supermarine Swift which was called the Prometheus if I remember correctly.
Pushing forward on the stick to recover from a supersonic dive. Shows that aerolastic distortion does have it's uses then! Yeager really enjoyed this film by all accounts.
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