This may sound weird, but hear me out. In the original Flight of the Phoenix the one-off aircraft built off the parts of the
Flying Boxcar:
Was this strange looking craft:
The Tallmantz Phoenix P-1
But here's the rest of the story. During the filming of the flying sequences the pilot attempted a touch and go, crashing the ship and killing him.
That pilot, Paul Mantz, was a good friend of my father's. Who was a commercial pilot himself at that time. We lived in Garden Grove CA, and I remember my father going to Paul's funeral, although he didn't take me along.
So I'd love to see any of those aircraft realized as RC flyers.