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Change Log

  • February 15, 2010: Added Urban Flick's personal recollection of creating the Tallmantz Brochure with Frank Tallman, and the friendship that developed out of it.

  • December 13, 2009: Edited changes into the "Last Flight of the Phoenix" page for readability and minor editing changes, with two photos added; on the aircraft listings, corrected the location of the Tallmantz Eberhart SE.5E from Duxford to the U.S. Army Aviation Museum at Ft. Rucker, Alabama.

  • October 20, 2009: Added a photo of Tallmantz pilot Thomas Mooney; added some additonal sources for Catch-22 information.

  • August 13, 2009: Added extensive pages on the filming of Catch-22.

  • July 3, 2009: Updated aircraft listings: added PMAS Lockheed 12A and Cessna UC-78B information provided by Michael McMurtrey; minor corrections to Frank Tallman filmography; incorporated guest book entries to comments page; added Paul Mantz Air Services employee page; added illustrations from Tallmantz brochure to photo gallery 3.

  • October 11, 2008: Reformatted title page; added personnel photos to Tallmantz People page; added "Top of the World" film to Paul Mantz filmography; editing changes to Orange County Aiport page; corrected photo caption on Flight of the Phoenix page; separated sources and ackowledgements page.

  • September 26, 2008: Added new William T. Larkins photos to Photo Gallery #3. Corrected F-107 serial no. (from 55-5120 to 55-5118) on aircraft listings and photo in Photo Gallery #1.

  • May 1, 2008: Added Photo Gallery #3. Added N1203 photo to N1203 page.

  • April 28, 2008: Added Photo Gallery #2. Added CAB report of Phoenix crash. Made minor error corrections.

  • March 14, 2008: Added Tallmantz Auction page.

  • March 8, 2008: Updated and small corrections/additons to aircraft listings and Tallmantz sources.

  • February 2008: Updated and expanded the aircraft listings.

  • July 23, 2007: Added the 1946 sales document from the RFC to Paul Mantz and his partners.

  • May 23, 2007: Added the Comments and Memories page. Edited the Companies page and corrected some typos on two other pages.

  • May 21, 2007: Added the Tallmantz People page. Added a bit of new material to the Last Flight of the Phoenix page.

  • May 15, 2007: Updated the Last Flight of the Phoenix page with much new information contained in court files.

  • May 8, 2007: Added the Businesses of Paul Mantz and Frank Tallman page.
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    Updated: 02/15/10