DC-3s

[Ted Samsel]

Adam sez:
> 
> I just saw _Casablanca_ again, and am consequently still drunk, as I have
> to drink heavily every time I see the first Rick-Ilse scene, but does
> anyone find any significance in the DC-3 Slothrop discovers Richard
> Halliburton (Princeton '22, btw) in?  I think it's mentioned in _GR_ that
> it's of the same class as the '36 Ford, exempt from the K.H. and a kind,
> preterite machine, but I might just be making that up.  In any event it's
> also the plane that Victor and Ilse escape in; I think there's something to
> this, the Gooney Bird being the Flight of Redemption.  But Laszlo is
> clearly Elect.  Is Rick?  Is Louis?

Don't think that's a DC-3 in CASABLANCA (or C-47 or Dakota)... I seem
to recall that it is a Lockheed Hudson... I'd have to see the flick
again (or the end of it.) and have my WWII ground observer corps
manuals at hand.

"Look Binkie! A Stearman trainer!"

Ted Samsel....tejas at infi.net
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