page_title: Frank Tallman
section_title: Tallmantz Aviation
hierarchical_section_title: Frank Tallman / Tallmantz Aviation
caption_attribution_description: c/n 3111. US Navy Bureau No 88297. Operated by The Fighter Collection and based at Duxford. Painted to represent a Fleet Air Arm Corsair of 1850sqn. 2015 Flying Legends Airshow. Duxford, Cambridgeshire, UK. 12-7-2015
context_page_description: Frank Gifford Tallman III was a stunt pilot who worked in Hollywood during the 1960s and 1970s.
  He was the son of Frank Gifford Tallman, Jr. and Inez Evelyn Foster.
context_section_description: In 1961, Tallman formed Tallmantz Aviation with stunt pilot Paul Mantz. Based at Orange County Airport (now John Wayne Airport) in southern California, they provided pilots, camera planes, and a small fleet of antique and historic aircraft, along with background models of aircraft and ships, for movie and television productions. Mantz was killed in 1965 while flying a cobbled-together aircraft, the Tallmantz Phoenix P-1, designed with the assistance of Otto Timm, representing the fictional type built by oil explorers of pieces of their crashed Fairchild C-82 Packet downed in the North African desert in The Flight of the Phoenix (1965 version).
  Tallman injured his leg in a go-cart accident with his small son in the driveway of their home, which meant Mantz had to fly the Phoenix.  Tallman was hospitalized.  Infection set in and most of the leg was amputated. Tallman taught himself to fly with one leg, reportedly preferring to fly some planes without the prosthetic leg he used for walking. As an amputee, he eventually regained his airman medical certificate and ratings in propeller multi- and single-engine, jet, and rotary aircraft.
caption: A FG-1D Corsair that was formerly owned by Tallman. He acquired the aircraft in 1959 from the salvage yard of an aluminium smelting company.[2]
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