Monday, August 14, 2017

A full-size prop biplane from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is coming to auction, it was also used in The Mummy


Constructed as a stand-in for a modified, flying version of a Stampe SV.4 biplane for filming during Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, this mock-up aircraft has since been used in numerous productions, most notably The Mummy (1999), in which the crashed biplane carrying Rick O'Connell, Jonathan  and Ardeth Bay sank into the sands around the lost city of Hamunaptra.

The aircraft is made of wood, with a metal framework and a canvas skin. Leather-wrapped padding is present around the cockpit. Metal reinforcements have been fitted to both the cockpit and gunner's position, with a fixed turret mount in the rear position facing backward.

The wings at the front and rear of the aircraft can be detached for transit and storage, as can the engine block dressing, which is designed as a clamshell arrangement to wrap around the nose of the plane. The ailerons on the wings can be repositioned using metal rod controls.

The plane is accompanied by a foreshortened tail section, used in the production of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, along with two destroyed wing sections and a set of stand-in character figures used to represent Ardeth Bay and Jonathan during in-flight sequences in The Mummy.




https://propstore.com/product/indiana-jones-the-last-crusade/lot-227-live-auction-2017-full-size-stampe-sv-4-biplane-tail-section-and-character-figures/

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