Fail Safe movie poster.
Movie (1964)
French title: Point limite
Starring:
Dan O'Herlihy (Brigadier General Warren A. "Blackie" Black)
Walter Matthau (Professor Groeteschele)
Frank Overton (General Bogan)
Ed Binns (Colonel Jack Grady)
A technical malfunction sends American planes to Moscow to deliver a nuclear attack. Can all-out war be averted?
Hung Toys[]
Mooney M20E Super 21[]
At left, probably a Convair C-131 Samaritan. At right two unidentified tails, one printed by registration N785CP (or N765CP ?).
Convair B-58 Hustler[]
Named Vindicator bombers by the headquaters.
Later seen as a negative shot. First, the second prototype s/n 50661.
Convair YB-58A-1-CF Hustler, s/n 55-0661
Then a craft in the colors of the USAF.
North American F-100F Super Sabre[]
Shown as a negative picture.
Boeing B-52 Stratofortress[]
The crew of a Convair B-58 was seated in tandem in three different cockpits. But the movie show them in a single one like in a Stratofortress.
Convair F-102 Delta Dagger[]
If the following Delta is not a F-102, it's a F-106 !
Convair F-106 Delta Dart[]
McDonnell F-101 Voodoo[]
Another aircraft display through a negative process.
Lockheed F-104G Starfighter[]
Unidentified Aircraft[]
Perhaps Sparrow I's during tests on a Douglas F3D Skyknight in the early 1950s ?
Another use of test firing footage seen (inverted) in The Lost Missile ?
North American X-15A[]
Another shot used flipped.
Grumman F-9J Cougar[]
Designation from 1962 of the F9F-8. Negative and inverted shot.
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