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"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

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"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck, A/K/A Dolt-45,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset., A/K/A P01135809

Sunday, January 26, 2014

Dr. Strangelove & the Subtlety of Stanley Kubrick

I never knew this part: Look at the shadow being cast by the B-52:




Look familiar?
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14 comments:

Eck! said...

Only getting the middle picture...

Looks like B17 maybe B29.

Eck!

1/26/2014 3:55 PM
Comrade Misfit said...

Any better now?

1/26/2014 5:23 PM
Phil said...

Damn! Is that the shadow of the Enola Gay?

1/26/2014 6:13 PM
Murphy's Law said...

I see what he did there.

1/26/2014 7:03 PM
CenterPuke88 said...

Given the tail and wings, I'm going with B-17. The B-29's wings were longer and narrower relative to it's fuselage. The tails are a wash, but the slight tail protrusion (tail gunners position) says B-17 as well.

1/26/2014 7:45 PM
Comrade Misfit said...

I think it was a B-17. Major Kong's B-52 was named "Leper Colony", which was the name of a B-17 in "Twelve O'clock High".

1/26/2014 9:24 PM
Borepatch said...

So: B-29 and Hiroshima or B-17 and Durenberg?

I vote 29.

1/27/2014 12:13 AM
BadTux said...

It is in fact a B-17. The B-52 is a model being "flown" in front of arctic footage shot from a camera plane. The shadow is the shadow of the camera plane. The camera plane was a B-17G, according to Wikipedia.

1/27/2014 12:15 AM
Sam dude said...

The B29 had a completely rounded nose. The windshield "break" in the B17's nose is clearly visible. B17 proportions, B17 tail section profile, wing profile, B17 known to have been the camera plane...

...all adds up to internet aviation history experts who can't spell "LeMay" confidently identifying it as a B29, a B24, a bottle of vitamin B12, the original trombonist of the English Beat...

1/27/2014 11:17 AM
Anonymous said...

It was a B17 owned by a French firm and used for aerial mapping. The registration was F-BEEA. It crashed during the filming of Memphis Belle.

Here are some pics of it. Note the 'Dr Stranglove' script over the door.

http://flyingfortress.canalblog.com/albums/making_of_docteur_folamour__b_17_f_beea/index.html

Al_in_Ottawa

1/27/2014 11:32 AM
LRod said...

Unquestionably the profile of a B-17. There was never a day in my youth that there wasn't a B-17 model in our house, my father having flown 35 missions in WWII in one. I remarked on that fact when I spoke at his funeral.

I'd recognize one anywhere, from any angle.

LRod
ZJX, ORD, ZAU retired

1/27/2014 11:54 AM
Comrade Misfit said...

And I don't believe for a nanosecond that the inclusion of the B-17's shadow was accidental. Kubrick was too skilled for that.

1/27/2014 12:24 PM
CenterPuke88 said...

Comrade, I absolutely agree on that deliberate part...the question I think of is IF he had a choice of a B-17 or a B-29 available as a chase plane, would it have been his preference to have the B-29 as a more deliberate message. Or did the B-17 chase plane and shadow he saw on the film cause him to name the "Leper Colony" in the movie?

Kubrick's immense talent make this a likely unanswerable question.

Easter eggs like these are always facinating. It's kinda like the sounds in Airplane...as a 13 year-old it didn't click at first that the engine noise was wrong, I was laughing at everything else and trying to make sense of some of it. I still see something new everytime I watch it.

1/27/2014 5:38 PM
Old NFO said...

B-17, and while it was an accident, it got used anyway, as an Easter Egg... :-)

1/27/2014 7:04 PM

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