Aero Vintage Books

A B-36 and B-25 formation takeoff...the B-25 camera follows the B-36 down the runway and into the air in a single long uncut shot from the beginning of the takeoff roll through unstick and gear and flap retraction.

Eyewitness account by Walter Douglas a B-36 co-pilot in "Flying on Film" (Mark Carlson 2012)..."I watched as Paul Mantz in his B-25 camera plane followed the B-36 into the air...he (was) right off the port wingtip and stayed with it all the way...
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For any airplane geek that is an amazing piece of film. Probably filmed from the right side of the camera nose through an open camera port. All of the air-to-air photography in the film is incredible and I think all was done by Mantz using his B-25.

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...Mantz and crew made the B-36 look good...
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I know, as for today's aircraft she is obsolete, but DAMN, ain't she pretty. In her day, though short lived, she was the best.

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