Aircraft in 80's TV series…

Wan’t there also a children’s series in the 70s/80s called “Flight into Danger” featuring a Dove?

It was a S-58 (H-34). Actually it was a S-58T, a conversion where the radial was replaced with a Pratt & Whitney Canada PT-6 “Twin Pac” turbine package. In the series it was supposed to be a barely flyable surplus piston ship, they even had sound effects of backfires, etc.
I saw the helicopter for sale recently, it earns its living doing external lift operations.

Slightly OT, but I remember Bristows having two of those (G-BCLN/O)at North Denes during the late 70s to supplement the Wessex 60s. My understanding is that they were not as good as the Wessex.

Ain’t Half Hot Mum. A B-17 (Sally B) crew think their luck is in when they see a load of well endowed women come running towards them only to find out that it’s Lah-Di-Dah Gunner Graham and Co. in drag.

I’m sure there was another episode featuring a very brief appearance from Dough Arnolds P-47 doing a strafing pass.

Anne.

Mako being the guy who played Adm. Isoruku Yamamoto in Pearl Harbor.

B-25 on “Salvage 1”

remember the short-lived “Salvage 1” series? It’s probably best that you don’t, but here is the info on the episode with the B-25:

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Airdate: Feb 5, 1979
Harry takes his teammates on a sentimental journey to the Burmese jungle to recover the well-preserved B-25 bomber he flew in Doolittle’s 1942 raid on Tokyo. They find that the plane is being guarded by an old Japanese soldier who doesn’t know the war has ended. He takes the Salvage team as war prisoners.

Guest Cast

Toshiro……………
Mako

General Morse…
Dane Clark

Fong………………..
Byron Chung

I remember the epsiode well, as it was based entirely on that B-25; heady stuff for an aviation-crazed 9 year old.

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Answered my own question, at the bottom of this page-

http://www.gregdonner.org/blue_thunder/bt_movie.html

Yes, the feature-length AW pilot episode was re-edited, including the addition of a purely superfluous naughty word starting with an ‘f’, just for the home video market.

The ‘real’ AW was later turned back into an ordinary Bell 222B, which later crashed. But does anyone know what became of the ‘real’ Blue Thunder?

I seem to remember there being an episode of AW with Dominic Santini and the female chopper pilot being circled in their chopper by a red version of Airwolf.

There was a film version, believe it or not, and you can download the theme tune on MP3… 😉

I seem to recall a Corsair appearing in one episode of “Airwolf”…

Don’t remeber a Corsair, but there was definatly one episode with a women flying a P51 ( which ends up crashing 🙁 ) and one with a F86 which I used to watch alot when I was a young lad!

*nostalgic glow*

Ah, ‘Airwolf’ and ‘Blue Thunder’, what dreadful series those both were! AW would usually feature 40 minutes of rubbish followed by them fetching ‘The Lady’ at the end, to tie-up whatever that week’s lame story had been. Usually that then consisted of multi-spliced, very familiar stock footage of the one and only real airworthy AW, mixed with footage of a large-scale radio control model they also used.

BT was so bad, I don’t think it even got as far as having a whole series!?

Great Stuff – thought that would get you going (I know nowt about Whirlybirds..)

Ref Wings – some was filmed at Sywell – wasnt the Bureau De Controle sign which used to be on the Barn at Old Warden something to do with Wings…Rob????

We have three of the small original ‘Blue Screen’ model props in the Museum – an Eindekker, a BE2 and an LVG or Pfalz (not very good at WW1 aircraft either)- they have tiny electric motors in em for the props… made by the legendary Dave Boddington (Uncle to Sywells Matt) and Dave Toyer in the 70s who also made scale full size aircraft…in fact we have the original Sywell Flyer model too made by Howard Boys in 1932…when the Northants Model Aero Club was formed here (oldest continually operating model aircraft club in the world apparently…)

Howard Boys worked for Taylorcraft and De Havilland and was WAY ahead of his time, died a few years ago after developing the first R/C model aircraft outside the military…in the 1930s with valve radio gear.and building his own small scale model petrol engines… The Sywell Flyer is a rubber powered canard…the twin props (hand carved) turn in opposite directions to cancel torque…so no need for a rudder…genius..it still flies really well – even though its 80 years old… Some of his stuff is in the Science Museum….

TT

“Wings” was a great series, the lead character Alan Farmer was played by Tim Woodward, who later went on to fly Spitfires in WWII (ie “Piece of Cake”, as Sqn Ldr Rex).

I’ll be buggered! 😮

“Wings” was a great series, the lead character Alan Farmer was played by Tim Woodward, who later went on to fly Spitfires in WWII (ie “Piece of Cake”, as Sqn Ldr Rex). And yes, another lead character was Charles Gaylion, the snobby officer played by Michael Cochrane who’s a well known characrter-actor.

It began in 1976 and ran till 1978 for 26 episodes, each 50 minutes long. Lots of Be2c aircraft (full sized replicas and models) and Eindekkers and Dr1’s, etc.

It also used to focus on life at home in WWI too.

I’ve always wondered what became of all the Be2c aircraft they built. And the large models built by master modeller David Boddington.

In the 70’s [i think] we had “wings” a WW1 based drama.I seem to remember a character called Mr Gaylion or something.

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Cannot remember the name but I seem to recall a series on tv where some scenes were filmed at Duxford, and there were a couple of meteors painted black with some large code letters on the sides, Airforce, or something like that.
Anyone else remember or am I just ‘barking’

I believe it was called “Aerodrome”, it had a neat a retro-futuristic look about it. It also featured the TSR. 2.

Lovingly referred to in the pub as “Melvyn off the telly”.

Strangely that is what my mother used to yell at me. . . .

Cannot remember the name but I seem to recall a series on tv where some scenes were filmed at Duxford, and there were a couple of meteors painted black with some large code letters on the sides, Airforce, or something like that.
Anyone else remember or am I just ‘barking’

Yes, I remember it, although I don’t think I actually watched it. Richard Briars was in it I think.

Just thought of ‘Chessgame’, a series with Terrance Stamp and team working for the ‘Defence Intelligence Staff’, it ran for only six episodes aired during November-December 1983. The first episode ‘Flying blind’ featured if my memory serves me right a crashed RAF Pembroke being found in a lake.

In the original book, ‘The labyrinth Makers’ by Anthony Price, it was a Dakota, and the crew had been flying contraband out of Berlin, including some documents that in the 80s the Soviets were still keen to get back.

Geoff.

What about “We’ll Meet Again” – loads of actual combat footage and Sally B galore, available on VHS and I think now on DVD too?

Didn’t “Shine On Harvey Moon” feature any aircraft?

Matt Houston used to have a Lear Jet or similar IIRC.

Not quite 80’s but how about “Wings”? Set in WW1 and shown in the 70’s I think. I only remember it because some kid on Jim’ll Fix It got “Fixed” to fly his staircase as a WW1 fighter with one of the pilot chaps from the series acting as pilot of said staircase and kid acted as observer/gunner – it was even worse than it sounds!

And of course there was “Chopper Squad” – Aussie surf rescue show – lots of Jet Ranger stuff.

How could i forget it – “Flying Doctors.” Rare footage of an actually flying Nomad 🙂