December 3, 2013 at 8:31 am
From the BBC web site
Film star Brad Pitt has paid £2m for a Spitfire, having become “obsessed” with the Second World War after filming the drama Fury, according to the Sun. It says he’ll take flying lessons at an Oxford flying school.
Brian
By: DazDaMan - 15th May 2017 at 08:58
I was wondering about this myself a few weeks ago, while watching Allied.
By: Zac Yates - 15th May 2017 at 03:12
Apparently this story’s doing the rounds again – War History Online or one of its relatives, and still with a photo of TB863 flying at Wanaka – but I can’t find an identity for the aircraft. Considering tracking down his agent to ask as was suggested, but has anyone ever found out more? Goodall doesn’t have the word “Pitt” anywhere in the Vickers Supermarine section!
By: charliehunt - 26th October 2014 at 19:43
A passing interest perhaps. Warbirds are traded regularly and we are used to seeing aircraft here move overseas and vice versa. None of us can influence what happens so we can only simply accept it.
By: J Boyle - 26th October 2014 at 18:51
For me ownership is irrelevant – I just enjoy getting as close as allowed on the ground and watching them fly
Until it’s sold, then (I’m assuming) you want to know if it’s staying in the UK. 🙂
By: charliehunt - 26th October 2014 at 06:39
My impression is the opposite. The interest in who owns what seems to ignore celebrity entirely. However I suppose for some it adds an extra frisson of interest.
For me ownership is irrelevant – I just enjoy getting as close as allowed on the ground and watching them fly.
By: jeepman - 26th October 2014 at 06:33
sooner or later it will be in the public domain anyway.
Probably in OK or Hello.
You can’t get away from today’s shallow, celebrity-obsessed, world anywhere nowadays – not even here.
Nobody seems get their knickers in a twist about who owns what airframe generally – perhaps with the noteable exception of Tom Cruise and his Mustang – but that says it all really doesn’t it
By: charliehunt - 26th October 2014 at 05:49
Not sure where this thread is going with members seemingly withholding information they deem unsharable or claiming acquaintanceship with members of the owner’s family only to hastily change the subject.
Nowhere is the answer – for the moment! But, as JB says, sooner or later it will be in the public domain anyway.
By: J Boyle - 25th October 2014 at 22:33
If a film star wants confidentiality or anonymity, then he/she probably shouldn’t buy a Spitfire.
Sooner or later it will have to show up somewhere…and being one of a relative few, it will be noticed.
At least Rowan Atkinson admits to owning his McLaren F1 P380 GJM and doesn’t mind being shown in it on the cover of an international magazine.
And a McLaren F1 is rarer and more valuable than a Spitfire.
Really, I’m not convinced about the need for this “cloak & dagger” nonsense.
Their salaries, divorce costs and home purchases are usually detailed in the “popular press” as read by the underclass. 🙂
By: mackerel - 25th October 2014 at 20:48
Steve,
Did the prospective owner tell you that he/she didn’t want it made public or, is this your personal interpretation ?
Quote: Confidentiality: “Spoken or written in confidence”. “To be kept secret”. “To be entrusted with secrets”.
Source: Oxford Senior Dictionary.
John im not talking about prospective owner, i mean the currant one. No they didnt ask me to say nothing but there are things that dont need to be aired in public !
Steve”P”
By: Flygirl - 25th October 2014 at 20:02
Go watch the Fury ! Enjoy 🙂
By: Oxcart - 25th October 2014 at 19:51
No !! why should I ?
Coz then u could smugly tell us all that u know exactly what’s going on but aren’t allowed to say!
By: trumper - 25th October 2014 at 19:31
No !! why should I ?
Post 79 🙂
By: charliehunt - 25th October 2014 at 19:27
Why not? You already said you might…….
By: Flygirl - 25th October 2014 at 18:15
No !! why should I ?
By: charliehunt - 25th October 2014 at 18:07
I am impressed!! So ask the question and let U.S. know!;)
By: Flygirl - 25th October 2014 at 17:47
Angelina ….ooh! Namedropper!;)
Nope not a name drop ! I ! We Really get to talk see !!
By: John Green - 25th October 2014 at 17:36
Re 75
Steve,
Some of us are fairly well up in the ‘respect’ stakes particularly when it come to respect for semantics amd philology.
By: John Green - 25th October 2014 at 17:31
Steve,
Did the prospective owner tell you that he/she didn’t want it made public or, is this your personal interpretation ?
Quote: Confidentiality: “Spoken or written in confidence”. “To be kept secret”. “To be entrusted with secrets”.
Source: Oxford Senior Dictionary.
By: charliehunt - 25th October 2014 at 17:28
Angelina ….ooh! Namedropper!;)
By: Flygirl - 25th October 2014 at 16:43
Angelina shops in my home town 🙂 next time I bump into her I might ask the question 🙂