Heads up – Mosquito Squadron

Flying sequences in 633 squadron included locations in Scotland while based at Dalcross..now called Inverness airport. a mountain pass near Aviemore called the Larig Ghru, cameras perched on the valley sides in the same way as the Lowflying.net photogs do nowadays.
http://www.scotaviaimages.co.uk/gallery/index.cgi?mode=image&album=scotavia&image=Ben%20Macdui%20Larig%20Ghru-scenery.jpg
Coastal scenes along Caithness coast.
Moorland and pine trees, Rothiemurchus near Aviemore
Low level overflight of village Braemar

I missd the film but would love to see it again. I believe the flying shots used were ones left over from 633 Squadron, but I don’t know how true that is. Here is a photo my father took at Bovingdon in 1963. You can just see a second Mosquito in the dip in front of the control tower.

“Mosquito Squadron” didn’t use “left over” footage from “633 Squadron” ,it was actual shots from the earlier film.

Here is an interesting blooper from “Mosquito Squadron” – at one point on the soundtrack the engine noise is from a Shackleton rather than a Mossie. I think this came about because the camera aircraft on “Mosquito Squadron” was an Avro Shackleton owned by the RAE.

Colin

3 of the mossies used in 633 Sqn. were displayed at the 1963 B.of B. At Home at Biggin Hill. Fantastic!!!! They’re on the Air Britain site in the airshow photos section,
Jim

I missd the film but would love to see it again. I believe the flying shots used were ones left over from 633 Squadron, but I don’t know how true that is. Here is a photo my father took at Bovingdon in 1963. You can just see a second Mosquito in the dip in front of the control tower.

Dreadful film with sixties fashion creeping in but the Mosquitoes were great to watch.

Cheers

Cees

Not the greatest war film ever made, and it clashed with ‘Dr Who’, but worth watching for the aircraft.
I know that the airfield sequences were filmed at Bovingdon, however, I watched the opening sequence and realised that the coastal area that they were approaching was in fact Holkham Bay in Norfolk, the scene of many films in the past.
As they flew over the beach, pine woods, the coastal meadows and part of the Holkham Estate, they flew very low over a ruined church tower, and a comment was made to Ilya Kulyakin about flying too low. This was in fact the
ruin of the original village of North Creake which is situated right next to the substantial remains of the former North Creake Airfield, it all happened so fast that I couldn’t spot the airfield, but I gather that by coincidence, North Creake was used as a storage facility for surplus Mosquitos at the end of the war, it made me wonder whether any of the a/c used in the film had actually been stored there, I presume it would be impossible to find out.
Before switching over, I noticed that most of the flying sequences seemed to have been filmed in that area, and I did return to the film after Dr Who, to see more flying over North Norfolk, it made me wonder whether the a/c had actually been based somewhere up there as well during filming, IMDB just stick with Bovingdon for every location.
I have to admit, it brought a bit of a tear to my eye to see EH-T in all it’s glory, in fact, to see all 4 of those Mossies together was a bit of a sight and sound, never to be repeated.

HOW the HELL did they get a Mosquito pilot to deliberately crash one for a film??-some people will do ANYTHING for money i suppose

Look on the bright side, they didn’t crash it for that film, but an earlier one that had the words Six and Three in it.

HOW the HELL did they get a Mosquito pilot to deliberately crash one for a film??-some people will do ANYTHING for money i suppose

Not seen it for years myself, look farward to laughing at it once more!

Oh mosquito squadron one film where the planes defy the laws of physics going around corners!!!

Still maybe in the world of CGI it is not that bad!

curlyboy