Spitfire in "Goodnight Mr Tom"

The Land Girls Spitfire sequence worked very well. Film Crew great bunch to work with and very receptive to suggestions which they incorporated. Unfortunately the ‘office’ c*ck*d up and gave credits to people who were thousands of miles away and omitted to include those who had slaved away 😡 At least it was nice to be in close proximity to the ‘land girls’;)

Shame the picture wasn’t better received by the public.

I saw a film the other night called ‘The Land Girls’ and was suprised to see a sequence with a Daimler Benz engined BF109, does anyone know which one it was, perhaps Black 6? A lovely sounding aeroplane anyway!

I noticed at the end of this film it showed Paul Bonham has messerscmitt pilot and Mark Hanna as Spitfire pilot, I assumed they mean Paul Bonhomme, It was black 6 in temporary paint job..

It was definitely TE566, but I believe it was John Romain flying it and not Charlie.

Glenn

Thanks Glenn, I had always believed it was Mark Hanna and remember seeing on the Old Flying Machine company a credit involving “Goodnight Mister Tom”, I am thinking i put 2 and 2 together and got 5.

The Land Girls

I saw a film the other night called ‘The Land Girls’ and was suprised to see a sequence with a Daimler Benz engined BF109, does anyone know which one it was, perhaps Black 6? A lovely sounding aeroplane anyway!

It was definitely TE566, but I believe it was John Romain flying it and not Charlie.

Glenn

Done.

I found a few clips of it strung together and put to a (shudder!) Shayne Ward song.

Watch it HERE with the sound down! :diablo:

The link does not seem to work DazDaMan, could you edit this please?

Brian.

I always believed it was MH434 with Mark Hanna at the controls.

I always thought it was MH434 with Ray Hanna at the controls. Was this made when Mark was around 🙁 ?

James

I found a few clips of it strung together and put to a (shudder!) Shayne Ward song.

Watch it HERE with the sound down! :diablo:

I always believed it was MH434 with Mark Hanna at the controls.

Who did the flying sequence in the Spitfire, and which Spitfire was it? Just caught the end of it flying and didn’t get time to get a better look. Thanks

I watched it too! A beautiful piece of television. I too wondered which Spitfire, for some reason I thought it was MH434 but not sure why?

Livewirex,

The Spitfire used was MKIX TE566, then owned by the Historic Aircraft Collection. I believe the pilot was Charlie Brown.

IIRC, they painted over the invasion stripes & removed the cannon fairings.

Cheers

Paul