The plane used in the Indiana Jones stunt show

[bigkidz895]

I was looking at our pictures from the Indiana Jones stunt show last night and I got curious about something: does anyone know if the plane that is used in the show is a real plane? I have seen delta-wing planes before, but not this one.

 

[marni1971]

I believe not.

 

[Thrawn]

Its just a prop.

 

[robynchic]

It could be an altered one...but I doubt it.

 

[bgraham34]

Its probably just a prop but most likely could be turned into a plane if someone wanted to. They dont need to way much.

 

[goonsquads57]

To me, it looks like a small scale replica of a real plane.

 

[MY_NAME_STITCH]

I would say from the look of it that it's a prop. I don't think that it's quite ready for take-off.

 

[Tim G]

I was looking at our pictures from the Indiana Jones stunt show last night and I got curious about something: does anyone know if the plane that is used in the show is a real plane? I have seen delta-wing planes before, but not this one.

No it's not a real plane, not even close...

 

[wdwfanaustria]

I was also looking through old and new photos of that plane and noticed that they changed the Naziswastika into a "normal" cross to be political correct.

 

[Mountaineer]

Some additional information about the plane used in the movie (found on an Indiana Jones fansite):

The futuristic Flying Wing was chosen by director Steven Spielberg to represent the ominous and advanced state of aeronautics in Hitler's Germany Production designer Norman Reynolds used a Northrop Corporation prototype of the Flying Wing and drawings by Ron Cobb to design for Raiders of the Lost Ark this strangeplane that has no tail and no fuselage. Deplane was built in England by Vickers Aircraft Company and painted at EMI Elstree Studios in London. In order to ship the elaborate prop to Tunisia for filming, it had to be disassembled and sent in parts, then rebuilt on location. In the film the Flying Wing is in Egypt (the Tunisian location) for the top secret mission of transporting the sacred Ark of the Covenant. But before the Ark is even aboard the plane, a series of dramatic events results in the fiery destruction of the Flying Wing.

Kathy Kennedy (Associate to Steven Spielberg): I walked out to the air strip and there was nobody but Steven out there. He was walking around the Flying Wing, really pondering. I asked him what he was thinking about. He said, "I'm trying to think of how I'm going to edit together 120 shots for this flight sequence. I'm about half way through it in my mind" we hadn't even started shooting it yet. That was a whole choreographed scene that he was editing in his head before he had even begun to shoot it.

Frank Marshall (Producer): The stunt coordinator came up to me one day and said, "Look, I've run out of faces, do you want to play the German pilot?" So I said, "Sure" Now I see why I was asked—first, the guy gets whacked over the head; then, it's 130 degrees and he sits in the cockpit with the top closed, wearing a jumpsuit and a little hat. So the temperature ended up around 180.

The Tunisian fire department's hoses not only pulled apart at the joints, the hose caught on fire and the fire department had to put out their own hose. It was like a slapstick comedy, with the fire department falling down, and the hoses breaking and running out of water. They'd say, "Fire it up!" and this little dribbled come out of the hose.

 

[boo52]

When the satge went down for rehab in 99 I think the old plane was retired and a new plane was built from scratch. When the new one was built it was decided to make it PC and the swastikas were removed.The old plane was retired to the backlot boneyard where it sat for years. Both planes were only props and built from the ground up as such.

 

[Slosh]

I would guess the one in the backlot is the prop from Raiders, wheras the stunt show plane was simply repainted. Also, WW2 German fighters used the cross insignia, not a swastika.

 

[BG Rugger]

If you watch the movie then look at the one from the stunt show you can see that while they have the same basic shape, they're really not even close to being replicas.

 

[boo52]

I would guess the one in the backlot is the prop from Raiders, wheras the stunt show plane was simply repainted. Also, WW2 German fighters used the cross insignia, not a swastika.

The one that was on the backlot was the original plane at the Stunt show. It was replaced after the major rehab with a brand new one. When it comes to the swastika, it was there to replicate the ones in the movie.

 

[Timmay]

Also, WW2 German fighters used the cross insignia, not a swastika.

Sadly, that is not true. Although much of the Luftwaffe was very anti-Nazi, there are plenty of records and photos that show many, many aircraft (fighters, bombers and transports) with the swastika on the tail of aircraft.

 

[TESTDUMMY S64]

The prop in the stunt show is also about half the size of the plane in the movie.

 

[wdwfanaustria]

http://www.luftwaffe-experten.co.uk/french/Potez%2063-11%20.H+TM%20%20I%20JG%20104.jpg
Here's a photo from a typical German plane in WW2.