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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Baloo: [QB] It's more likely that they made the plane seen in [i]Flight of the Phoenix[/i] from an old AT-6 trainer (WW II vintage). There were more of them and they could rather easily have acquired 10-20 for the price of a Skyraider (since <small>I think</small> they were still being manufactured at around that time). I have a friend who was a young man in the Navy, stationed in San Diego when they were filming [i]Tora, Tora, Tora[/i]. He helped modify the planes that stood in for the A6M Zeros (and/or some of the other planes). He says that they were fairly easy to modify and that the FAA had already approved a similar modification for another movie already, so they could make the physical changes and fly them under the other certification specifications. He also says that the modification had them shortening the exhaust stack by so much that a 3-foot flame shot out of the stack. They had to install a heat shield on the aircraft to prevent it from incinerating itself. --Baloo [/QB][/QUOTE]
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