Text and Photos Submitted by : Mark Allanson from Darwin,Australia

          
G'day,

More horrors are revealed in the Pharaoh's tomb on the other side of the broken wall. It opens into
catacombs full of cascading, mouldering mummies, sarcophagi and skulls (one has a snake slithering out
of its mouth). A nervous wreck, Marion thinks Indy hasn't survived. But then, she is grabbed by Indy as he
shows her their exit - a crack in the corner of the chamber through which sunlight beams. Once they
miraculously make their way into the daylight from the abandoned excavation, as luck would have it, their
escape occurs above an improvised, crude desert airstrip serving the digs.

The two are within sight of the Flying Wing airplane with twirling propellers that will soon carry the Ark to
Hitler. First crouching under its wing near the plane, Indy quickly subdues a monkey wrench-wielding
German mechanic. Then he faces a second, burly, bald and shirtless opponent. In an exciting sequence,
the two fight and punch at each other as the plane's pilot tries to get a clear shot at Indy from the cockpit.
Marion bashes the pilot (Frank Marshall, the producer of the film in a bit part) over the head, and knocks
him into the throttle. His weight revs up the plane, causing it to rotate in a circle around one set of blocked
plane tires. The plane's cockpit cover shuts above her, but she is able to take over the plane's machine gun.
On the tarmac, the two opponents continue to fight within inches of the plane's lethal propeller blades.
Marion's gun fire punctuates refuelling tanks. Spilled fuel floods the entire area and quickly catches fire.
Soon, the burning ! fuel will ignite the fuelling truck and the airplane. The big German doesn't see the
spinning, whirring blades roar toward him from behind. The propellers hack him to death - a red spray of
blood covers everything (the cockpit window and the Nazi flag) to register his demise. Indy frees Marion
from the cockpit and runs from the flaming scene to safety. When the entire plane explodes in a huge
fireball, Belloq senses that "Jones!" was responsible for the massive destruction. One of the Germans
orders the Ark loaded aboard a truck to be driven to Cairo and then flown from there to Berlin.

Behind the scenes.

When Marion and Indy finally escape the Well of Souls, they have a battle scene at the Flying Wing, a big
plane that the Nazis are going to use to ship the Ark. It was on one such stunt shoot that Harrison Ford
tumbled to the ground and into the path of a moving plane wheel. Luckily the alert stunt crew stopped it in
time, but there was supposedly an unscheduled coffee break afterwards to let nerves settle.

Here's another great site where I found the attached picture.
http://www.theraider.net/im_raiders/raiders_gallery2.html

Isn't it the coolest Flying Wing ever!

Mark