Italian Job Plane??
Posted:
Tue Dec 27, 2005 2:55 pmby concordski
Does anyone know what the chinese aeroplane at Turin Airport which transports the gold to italy in the original (1969) Italian Job?
Picture:
I wonder if anyone would design it for me as well?!?
Cheers
Re: Italian Job Plane??
Posted:
Tue Dec 27, 2005 3:23 pmby Hagar
According to this it's a Douglas C-74 Globemaster.
http://www.air-and-space.com/Douglas%20C-74.htm Same photo too.
Re: Italian Job Plane??
Posted:
Tue Dec 27, 2005 3:50 pmby Nexus
Perhaps the "grandfather" of the C17 Globemaster III? :) ???
I know McDonnell-Douglas designed the Globemaster III, but is now being produced by Boeing ofcourse
Re: Italian Job Plane??
Posted:
Tue Dec 27, 2005 4:49 pmby Felix/FFDS
[quote]Perhaps the "grandfather" of the C17 Globemaster III?
Re: Italian Job Plane??
Posted:
Thu Dec 29, 2005 2:25 pmby concordski
Oh, I was hoping that'd be some chinese manufactured russian aircraft, oh well.
thanks,
Concordski
Re: Italian Job Plane??
Posted:
Fri Dec 30, 2005 12:34 pmby Bubblehead
Looks to me like it was an original Ruskie design aircraft based on the nose and cockpit configuration.
Bubblehead
Re: Italian Job Plane??
Posted:
Fri Dec 30, 2005 12:50 pmby Hagar
Looks to me like it was an original Ruskie design aircraft based on the nose and cockpit configuration.
Bubblehead
That might have more to do with the paint scheme than anything else. Looks pretty American to me & a natural development of the DC-6 series. According to the article from my link it was originally ordered by Pan Am under the civil designation DC-7 but the order was cancelled in late 1945.
Re: Italian Job Plane??
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Fri Dec 30, 2005 10:42 pmby Bubblehead
Except for the tail section, it does look like the old DC-6/7 series. I flew on an DC-6 from North Island, San Diego to Atsugi, Japan with a stopover at Midway back in the late fifties. It was like a riding in an old stagecoach.
Bubblehead