4x Bristol Fighter Replicas found – well done Graham!

Hi All,
Apologies to all especially TEXANTOMCAT for duplicating this thread (Has now been deleted), I obviously had a momentous brain fart worse
than normal……:stupid:

Geoff.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=925559660789504&set=gm.1536481273280583&type=3&theater

”This Bristol F2B Fighter replica, photographed at Chino in 2008 has a UK connection. It was built in a great hurry for the first attempt at the High Road to China film. Late for filming, it was completed under the supervision of the late Arthur Heath to get things back on track, and I think Bill Fisher told me it was test flown by Jeff Hawke. Sadly the film was postponed and later started again with Stampes provided by Personal Plane Services. Arthur Heath was to lose his life in the Invader accident at Biggin Hill.”

John Tempest

This would probably be the same Vern Ohmert who ferried B-25 N9455Z “Tokyo Express”, later “Big Bad Bonnie” to the UK in 1978 for the Hanover Street movie.

T J

one of the worlds nicest Kiwis

To be fair, although he’s been here a long time, Graham was born and raised in Oz. 🙂

Fantastic news for the Kiwi scene and his example will be a great companion for his Nieuport and Dr.I. Hopefully some of the others stay here as the TVAL original isn’t seen away from Hood.

Wow!

I remember reading about those somewhere, waaaaay back, but I always thought they were “planned” – never actually built!

http://aviadejavu.ru/Images6/MY/MY79-11/16-4.jpg ( Photo of one at Oshkosh)

One of six flying Bristol Fighter F2B reproductions being built by 29-year-old Learjet pilot Vernon R. Ohmert of Missouri for a forthcoming film entitled High Road to China, due for release in March 1981. This machine, N29HC, was the first to fly, making its maiden flight on July 4 1979. The engine is a 200 h.p. Ranger 6-440-C in-line.

They ended up using Stampes instead, supplied by PPS at Booker.

These New Zealand machines look like steel tube reproductions with possibly Ranger engines.

There were some examples built in Australia as Bristol Tourers in the 1980s

Didnt some get converted to Bristol Tourer’s for a film?

Dave

I read the headline quickly and thought it said Bristol Freighters !

I’ll go and stand in the corner 🙁