Frank Gifford Tallmam (April 17, 1919 — April 15, 1978) was an American-born stunt pilot in Hollywood in the 1960s and 1970s. In 1961, with legendary pilot Paul Mantz, he formed Tallmantz Aviation based at Orange County Airport (now John Wayne Airport) in Southern California. Their company would provide pilots, camera planes and a small fleet of antique and historic aircraft for movie and television productions. Mantz was killed in 1965 while flying a cobbled-together airplane which was suppose to resemble a rebuilt Fairchild C-82 Packet reconstructed by oil explorers downed in the North African desert in The Flight of the Phoenix. He was thrown from the aircraft, after one of the skids had hit a sand dune.