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Aviation Movie.

Do any of the sages on here remember a black and white British made movie or TV program, dating around about the late 50s, that was centered around the manufacturing of a fictitious aerorplane. I’m sure the original Mk31 version of the Bristol Freighter was the aircraft used. I last saw this film many many years ago on TV. The scene that sticks in my mind is one where 2 guys are brawling in the otherwise empty cabin of the Bristol, the main cabin door was open as the plane circled over what looked like a typical British suburban landscape. As it was circling overhead, the aircraft was observed by a child in a street below outside a news-agents, undoing what looked like a rocket shaped iced lolly. One of the guys was eventually thrown out the door, and I’m afraid thats where my recollection ends.

Hopefully this ring a bell with someone, or is the only bell that I’m going to hear going to be the one atop the lovely white van thats going to take me away!

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By: bazv - 26th February 2011 at 20:01

Pleasure Sir!
Its a quirky little film,shot at Wolverhampton Pendeford and I believe that the Bristol ‘Frightener’ was damaged during filming !

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http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=3&sqi=2&ved=0CD0QFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pprune.org%2Faviation-history-nostalgia%2F368727-wolverhampton-pendeford-man-sky.html&ei=T1tpTa6REIGZhQeJ8I2dDg&usg=AFQjCNGRazDtG6Dis0UTML1fqZO_DffKow

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By: MSR777 - 26th February 2011 at 18:26

I’m very grateful sir. I really was starting to believe I’d lost the plot. Ordering it now. Thanks.

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By: bazv - 26th February 2011 at 17:35

Man in the sky /AKA Decision against time

dvd from amaz**

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Man-Sky-DVD-Jack-Hawkins/dp/B002VD5S8S/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1298741680&sr=1-1

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