What civilian airplanes were used in Captains Of The Clouds?

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1

I’m not up my my 1930s civilian aircraft, and I’m hoping you can help me.

2

CF-HGO is a Noorduyn Norseman.

3

And CF-ATZ is a Fairchild 71C.

I’ve learned to look up the registration numbers. There are a couple more, but I’ll have to rewind when the film is over so I can see them.

4

The Turner Classic Movies channel and Comcast DVR have changed my life, too. :smiley:

5

Indeed, man.

I found this page (translated from French):

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I know you recognized the Harvards, Ansons, and Hudsons later on. And was that a Hurricane or a Tempest the German pilot was flying in the attack scene?

I watched this one right after “A Yank in the RAF”, which was almost the same movie. Hudsons being ferried across the Atlantic, a rebel pilot in the buttoned-down British military, Reginald Gardiner as the stuffy yet friendly English pilot who can’t get the girl, despite having a front-row seat at the nightclub next to the hero … except that James Cagney, unlike Tyrone Power, didn’t suddenly switch from Hudsons to Spitfires with no explanation.

Now, if I could only find out why Lockheed put airliner windows in a bomber.

7

Yep, sure did. :wink:

The ‘Bf-109’ was a Hurricane.

I missed A Yank In The RAF, and haven’t seen it for a couple of decades.