John Oram

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Posted: 06 Apr 2020


Taken: 10 Feb 1992

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Gee Bee Model Z
NA73
Disney-MGM
Replica
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Gee Bee Model Z NA73 at Disney-MGM - 10 February 1992

Gee Bee Model Z NA73 at Disney-MGM - 10 February 1992
Working with my photographs up to thirty years after many of them were taken, I have had, in some cases, to do a considerable amount of research to add information to the notes written on the backs of the originals.

The original Gee Bee aircraft, including the Model Z, date back to the 1930s. The history of this replica, seen at Disney-MGM in Florida, was extremely difficult to determine and I recount what I have found out in good faith. A replica was built for the 1991 Disney movie 'The Rocketeer'. What threw me off track was that the aircraft which appears in the early scenes is not in these colours or markings. I understand, however, that the aircraft used was indeed repainted as above for later scenes in the movie. I believe it is now displayed in the original (largely yellow) scheme and with a different 'registration' at the Museum of Flight in Seattle.

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