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Dec 27^th, 2005 at 2:55pm

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Does anyone know what the chinese aeroplane at Turin Airport which transports the gold to italy in the original (1969) Italian Job?

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I wonder if anyone would design it for me as well?!?

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Reply #1 - Dec 27^th, 2005 at 3:23pm

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According to this it's a Douglas C-74 Globemaster. http://www.air-and-space.com/Douglas%20C-74.htm
Same photo too.

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Reply #2 - Dec 27^th, 2005 at 3:50pm

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Perhaps the "grandfather" of the C17 Globemaster III?

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I know McDonnell-Douglas designed the Globemaster III, but is now being produced by Boeing ofcourse

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Reply #3 - Dec 27^th, 2005 at 4:49pm

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Perhaps the "grandfather" of the C17 Globemaster III?

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I know McDonnell-Douglas designed the Globemaster III, but is now being produced by Boeing ofcourse

You could say that the C-74 was the "Grandfather" since the C-124 was the Globemaster II..

http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/modern_flight/mf9.htm

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Reply #4 - Dec 29^th, 2005 at 2:25pm

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According to this it's a Douglas C-74 Globemaster. http://www.air-and-space.com/Douglas%20C-74.htm
Same photo too.

Oh, I was hoping that'd be some chinese manufactured russian aircraft, oh well.
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Reply #5 - Dec 30^th, 2005 at 12:34pm

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Looks to me like it was an original Ruskie design aircraft based on the nose and cockpit configuration.

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Reply #6 - Dec 30^th, 2005 at 12:50pm

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Looks to me like it was an original Ruskie design aircraft based on the nose and cockpit configuration.

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That might have more to do with the paint scheme than anything else. Looks pretty American to me & a natural development of the DC-6 series. According to the article from my link it was originally ordered by Pan Am under the civil designation DC-7 but the order was cancelled in late 1945.

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Reply #7 - Dec 30^th, 2005 at 10:42pm

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Except for the tail section, it does look like the old DC-6/7 series. I flew on an DC-6 from North Island, San Diego to Atsugi, Japan with a stopover at Midway back in the late fifties. It was like a riding in an old stagecoach.

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