On Sunday, 10 April 2016 09:54:22 UTC+1, polygonum wrote:
On 10/04/2016 09:27, Brian Gaff wrote:
Sounds like a low budget rework of flight of the Phoenix without the flight
bit but using an old tank picked up from an army surplus source.
Brian

You make it sound as if Flight of the Phoenix was a big-budget
blockbuster! I always thought of it as a low-budget film.

Though I admit that $5,355,000 or $3.8 million (as found in Wiki) was
quite a lot in 1965.

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Rod

They actually built and flew the aircraft.
ISTR someone was killed flying it.

Yup. So they were.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fl...lm)#Production