Trimotors, pt 6 - Martin XB-51 b.jpg (1/1)

[Mitchell Holman]

[Ron Monroe]

"Towards the Unknow". I believe it was also James Garner's first movie. He
played the pilot of the ill-fated XF-120. The last I heard, it was caught up
in some legal problems, and has never been released on tape or disc.
Ron

"Bruce R" > wrote in message
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> "Mitchell Holman" > wrote in message
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> IIRC this a/c appeared in an old movie, "Test Pilot" if memory serves. It
> was called the Gilbert X-20 or some such thing and the hero had problems
> with the skin wrinkling up in 4 - G turns. Does anybody else remember
> the movie, or what the correct name was?
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> Bruce
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[Proton Fox]

"Bruce R" > wrote in
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> "Mitchell Holman" > wrote in message
> ...
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> IIRC this a/c appeared in an old movie, "Test Pilot" if memory serves.
> It was called the Gilbert X-20 or some such thing and the hero had
> problems with the skin wrinkling up in 4 - G turns. Does anybody
> else remember the movie, or what the correct name was?
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> Bruce
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The previous picture is evidently a frame grab from the movie. "Toward
the Unknown", 1956.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toward_the_Unknown