BE2/Biggles Programme next week BBC1 Look East

PS. Bod. If it hadn’t been your birthday yesterday, I’d have posted the pic of you wearing the Biggles flying kit!!

Many happy returns!

Sadly as Matt says, the Inside Out programme is now postponed to January – as it was supposed to be their series finale, but it’ll be worth waiting for.

Basically it’s looking at the story of how the replica aeroplane came to be built for the Biggles movie and the Boddington family connection then and now, as well as telling some of the story of how Capt. W. E. Johns came to create the Biggles’ series of books.

It’s all livened up by some ‘re-enactions’ with a chap who looked scarily like Johns sitting at a typewriter in his study (filmed in a corner of the Sywell Aviator!) and some close-up cockpit shots of Biggles flying through ‘cloud’, filmed with the aid of Delta, who loaned us G-ADGT for the occasion and a smoke generator. At one point, it convinced Sywell management that we’d set the Tiger on fire – so it might make It’ll Be Alright on the Night too!

Program has now been shelved untill the New Year, it did indeed go out on the Midlands Today version on Monday Evening! The Beeb were due to do some more filming, Intro’s and things, at Sywell today. It has been posponed due to coverage of the Earth quake in Pakistan.
Even the producer was unaware that it went out on Monday, it was’nt ment to!!!!
We hope to have the Airframe somewhere near by the end of 2006, with a first flight in 2007.

Well the owners will probably be able to tell you! I think the plan is for the end of 2006, given the individuals involved, I wouldnt bet against em

TT

Was already on the Midlands Today version on Monday, very good it was too. Did anyone know if it said when it was expecting to fly? My little brother shouting his head off for the past 60 seconds ago mean i missed out on whatever was said then