On weekends here one of the broadcast movie channels will show
entertaining movies from as far back as the 1930s, a series known as "Popcorn
Movies". Today they started with "Robinson Crusoe on Mars", which is always
worth watching. But then they followed it with an obscure one, "Robinson
Crusoe of Mystery Island", which was released in 1936. I almost didn't watch
this until I saw footage of the airship USS Macon (ZRS-5) being towed out of
the hangar at Moffett Field:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Macon_%28ZRS-5%29
Minutes later there is in-flight and landing film footage of a Sikorsky
S-42 Flying Boat:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikorsky_S-42
and shortly afterwards there is footage of a twin-engined flying boat that I
cannot readily identify. It has the lines of a Grumman design, and it has
three vertical stabilisers.
The movie itself is a bit corny, but seeing these and possibly other
aircraft makes it worth watching.
Chris
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
- Hunter S. Thompson
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