Through sheer pluck and persistence, they managed to recreate almost every dangerous stunt in Steven Spielberg’s $18 million blockbuster ($52 million in 2014 currency), resulting in a charming near-complete Raiders replica that by the 90s had become a cult film in its own right. Earlier this year, amateur filmmakers Eric Zala and Chris Strompolos used the $58,000 proceeds of a Kickstarter campaign to build a 78-foot replica of Reynolds’ fake airplane, and then blow it up for the final shot of a movie they’d been working on all their lives.Īs boys growing up in Mississippi, Zala and Strompolos had spent the 1980s-their entire childhoods, essentially-making their own shot-by-shot Raiders remake on VHS.

The BV-38’s memorable scene inspired a number of scale model kits, but only one full-size mockup-more than three decades after Raiders was released. Navy’s “Flying Pancake” first flown in 1942.

Other contemporaneous wings include the Northrop N1M, which first flew in 1940, and the even stranger-looking Vought V-173, the U.S. The BV-38 is a fictitious aircraft, albeit one that Raiders production designer Norman Reynolds extrapolated from a number of real designs, most notably the Horten Ho 229, a jet wing test-flown by the Luftwaffe in 1943.

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