Comments:
I remember the PBY's at least 10 at the Southeast Corner at Santa Ana in about 1963. I was about 14 at the time. They were in a group and I remember someone at the Tallmantz museum telling me they had been purchased by someone in the South East. I went back about 6 mos later and they were all gone.
I was present for some of the filming for Lost Horizon and a DC-3/C-47 was assembled in Bronson Canyon for the crash scene and snow (foam) was sprayed all over the canyon floor for the movie.
I met Paul and Frank several times but the most memorable was at Clover Field for the filming of The Hook. I still have one of the bombs that failed to drop on the ship they "bombed" near Catalina. They used two B-25's. Paul had a motor home at the airport and spent hours in it for several days waiting for the call to send out the aircraft.
I watched them get the B-25's ready for Catch 22 and crawled all over them after they returned.
Do you have more details on the auction?
I remember the PBY's at least 10 at the Southeast Corner at Santa Ana in about 1963. I was about 14 at the time. They were in a group and I remember someone at the Tallmantz museum telling me they had been purchased by someone in the South East. I went back about 6 mos later and they were all gone.
I was present for some of the filming for Lost Horizon and a DC-3/C-47 was assembled in Bronson Canyon for the crash scene and snow (foam) was sprayed all over the canyon floor for the movie.
I met Paul and Frank several times but the most memorable was at Clover Field for the filming of The Hook. I still have one of the bombs that failed to drop on the ship they "bombed" near Catalina. They used two B-25's. Paul had a motor home at the airport and spent hours in it for several days waiting for the call to send out the aircraft.
I watched them get the B-25's ready for Catch 22 and crawled all over them after they returned.
Do you have more details on the auction?
Added: 10-Feb-14
Name: Curt Newport
From: "Germantown, Maryland"
E-mail: Contact
"My father was an Army aviator (WW II, Korea, and Vietnam, two tours)and once and a while we went to the base airshows. I cannot remember where this was, but I distinctly remember seeing Mr. Tallman fly a replica of the Spirit of St. Louis during one event. I cannot remember the year. At some point in time, my father introduced me to a very tall man with a mustache wearing period flying garb, i.e., knee-high flying boots, breeches, etc. (I was very young at the time). He was very nice and bent over and shook my hand, I recall. Only many years later did I realize I had met a very famous pilot.
C. Newport"