Aeroplane Monthly 1980-03
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Nieuport 28 reproduction built by Jim Appleby of Antique Aero, Riverside, California, and owned by Jim Osborne of Stolp Starduster Corp.
The action-packed picture was taken in 1970, during the making of the movie Tora! Tora! Tora! about the Pearl Harbor raid, and shows “Zeros” (modified AT-6s) attacking earthbound Curtiss P-40s.
A North American P-51D in the markings of the Maj George Preddy, top-ranking World War Two Mustang Ace for the USAAF. The aeroplane pictured was brought from New Zealand to the United States by Mr John Shafhausen of Spokane, Washington, in 1974.
One of three 1917 Morane-Saulnier AI's restored by Jean Salis at La Ferte Alais in August 1977, when it was photographed by Thierry Thomassin. It is 60% original and powered by a 130 h.p. Clerget rotary.
An Eardley Billing Biplane reproduction swooping over the Demoiselle during the shooting of that 20th Century Fox classic Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, released in 1965.