Tallmantz Aviation
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.
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 he used for walking. As an amputee he eventually won back his FAA certificates and ratings in prop (multi and single-engine), jet, and rotary aircraft.
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