I believe there were two Nord 1002/Me108’s used in the films “633 Sqn” and possibly “The Longest Day”. They were subsequently acquired by the late John “Jeff” Hawke and were ferried by he and another pilot from RAF Wattisham to Zahns Airport, Long Island, New York, though one made a forced landing on the sea ice on the east coast of Labrador. Does anyone have the identities of these two Nords and are either of them still around? One was certainly in pseudo Luftwaffe colours with the code “14” the other looks to have had just black chevrons.
By: Septic - 17th February 2013 at 23:43
Just found this excellent page.
http://www.users.waitrose.com/~g8jan/html%20files/wattisham%202.html
Septic.
By: Peter D Evans - 16th February 2013 at 21:13
No worries Mr Sceptic… thanks for digging out these two images 🙂
Cheers
Pete
By: Septic - 16th February 2013 at 20:15
Sorry about the quality, but atleast its a starting point.
Peter, I wasn’t fully awake when I made the post this morning.:)
Septic.
By: Peter D Evans - 16th February 2013 at 08:35
Thanks for the details on N108U Mr Septic… and the same image of F-BGVU was previously linked to the original poster on WIX in post #5 😉
Chreers
Pete
By: Septic - 16th February 2013 at 08:13
Hi Roobarb
F-BFYX (N108U) Yellow 14 flown to US by John & his then fiancee Jean, this aircraft was later destroyed in a hangar fire.
and F-BGVU (N107U) owned by Greg Board but ferried by Francis Freeman and photographer Robin Carruthers, this aircraft had the Chevron markings. The aircraft crash landed on the ice at Pirates Cove and sank.
I will scan some rather poor images later in the meantime here is an image prior to filming.
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y164/ChrisBrame/Nord1102F-BGVUN107U.jpg
Septic.
By: Peter D Evans - 16th February 2013 at 08:07
I think we’ve got the identities in the posts above? To recap, two French registered examples were used and from that you can find the following:
Cheers
Pete
By: David Burke - 16th February 2013 at 01:22
Not that many Nord 1002’s have been registered in the U.S . I guess a look at registrations and the years they were registered should answer the question.
By: Roobarb - 15th February 2013 at 20:09
Many thanks to all who have given useful links etc.
The info is out there somewhere!
Roobarb
By: Propstrike - 15th February 2013 at 10:43
JH was no stranger to hyperbole, but still, that was one scary trip 😮
By: bearoutwest - 15th February 2013 at 01:51
Discovered this by coincidence a couple of days ago. It features an article written by Jeff Hawkes about the Atlantic crossing in the two Bf-108s.
If the link doesn’t work, try google-books search for Flying – March 1965. The article is called “Messerschmitt mania”.
Regards,
…geoff
By: Peter D Evans - 14th February 2013 at 22:01
This might be the F-xxxx example… F-BGVU as seen here
This is now N107U, of which the FAA Register has the following:
http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Results.aspx?NNumbertxt=N107U
Cheers
Pete
By: Peter D Evans - 14th February 2013 at 21:48
This link may also prove useful in trying to ID the second example:
http://www.preservedaxisaircraft.com/Luftwaffe/messerschmitt/me108.htm
Cheers
Pete
By: Peter D Evans - 14th February 2013 at 21:45
This link might jog some memories… there appears to be an F-xxxx reg on the upper wing of one example, but I just can’t read it…
http://www.users.waitrose.com/~g8jan/html%20files/wattisham%202.html
Also, post #14 of this old FlyPast thread might be useful…
http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?t=74255
This points to “Yellow 14” currently being G-ETME (formerly N108J & F-BFBV), of which GINFO has the following:
Cheers
Pete
By: DazDaMan - 14th February 2013 at 21:43
Dammit, there was a good webpage with the two Nords on it, but I’m damned if I can find it now! One of them was certainly in a pseudo-1944 scheme as “14” (with what looked like the ‘Pik As’ emblem on its cowlings). Can’t remember the other one.
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