Based on timeframe and the three vertical stabilizers, I'd guess the Boeing
314 Clipper.
On May 14, 2016 14:13, "Chris Trask" <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On weekends here one of the broadcast movie channels will show
> entertaining movies from as far back as the 1930s, a series known as
> "Popcorn Movies". Today they started with "Robinson Crusoe on Mars", which
> is always worth watching. But then they followed it with an obscure one,
> "Robinson Crusoe of Mystery Island", which was released in 1936. I almost
> didn't watch this until I saw footage of the airship USS Macon (ZRS-5)
> being towed out of the hangar at Moffett Field:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Macon_%28ZRS-5%29
>
> Minutes later there is in-flight and landing film footage of a
> Sikorsky S-42 Flying Boat:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikorsky_S-42
>
> and shortly afterwards there is footage of a twin-engined flying boat that
> I cannot readily identify. It has the lines of a Grumman design, and it
> has three vertical stabilisers.
>
> The movie itself is a bit corny, but seeing these and possibly other
> aircraft makes it worth watching.
>
>
> Chris
>
> When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
> - Hunter S. Thompson
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