Does any body know where this film was actually filmed. I understand it was meant to be Brooklands and called Brookly in the film. In a few shots there appears to be large areas of concrete/tarmac just on the edges of the shots and as the race track, hangars etc are replicas and parts of a huge film set was this constructed at a redundant airfield?
By: Propstrike - 13th August 2005 at 09:02
There seems to be a German company making Bleriot-Vickers.
This is a photo of one which appears to have landed in a street, after all the fabric came off.
By: Andy in Beds - 12th August 2005 at 22:41
A google search on ‘Vickers Type 22’ brought up Type 22 frigates with Vickers 4.5 inch guns, Vickers 6-ton tanks, of which the Poles had 22 type-Bs, developments of the type-22 pillbox armed with a Vickers MG, but also this on the aircraft concerned. 🙂
http://www.southward.org.nz/viewgallery.php?id=6
You can alsio but a ceramic tile with an image of it from here!
I wonder if I can persuade Mrs AiB that a row of tiles featuring Maurice Farman Longhorns could be stuck to the kitchen walls.
Somehow, I feel that may be a non-starter.
Andy.
By: Andy in Beds - 12th August 2005 at 21:48
Cross and Cockade book sale. Had to break a few arms and legs but it was worth it.
A German now has the Eardly Billing, the Vickers is, I think, with Bianchi, the Demoiselle is in Australia and the Boxkite and Avro at Shuttleworth. This leaves Bridget still wondering where the Antoinette went.
Yesterday I flew over to Little Gransden passing by Old Warden and the now disused railway where the Avro ‘landed’ on the train.
Blast!
I am now tucking into a rather impudent Chateau Peculiar (3 for a tenner) and I ignore you insults as you are such an amateur.
I didn’t know you could write Hiscock.
I always imagined you used Carol to write your stuff (that’s why it makes sense–sometimes), so if you know where the Antoinette is now it’s about time you coughed up the answer.
Cheers Darling
Andy
PS Do you still use that big ball of string to navigate with?
By: Melvyn Hiscock - 12th August 2005 at 21:42
A fiver? How many shillings was that in those days?
Don’t drink and read Melv, having your lips move at the same time as trying to get your mouth round the bottle will only make you spill most of it.
Cross and Cockade book sale. Had to break a few arms and legs but it was worth it.
A German now has the Eardly Billing, the Vickers is, I think, with Bianchi, the Demoiselle is in Australia and the Boxkite and Avro at Shuttleworth. This leaves Bridget still wondering where the Antoinette went.
Yesterday I flew over to Little Gransden passing by Old Warden and the now disused railway where the Avro ‘landed’ on the train.
Blast!
I am now tucking into a rather impudent Chateau Peculiar (3 for a tenner) and I ignore you insults as you are such an amateur.
By: Melvyn Hiscock - 12th August 2005 at 21:28
Am I going to have to go and find my copy of the Mag Men book? I have wine to drink.
BTW, the book cost me a fiver.
It is very good and no, you cannot have it.
By: Papa Lima - 12th August 2005 at 21:25
Andy, remember that I snaffled the Putnam Vickers at Le Ferte? According to that book, there never was a Vickers Type 22 (there’s a gap between 19 and 23); and nothing else depicted in the book even comes close to the aircraft in question!
To me it looks suspiciously similar to a Bleriot.
By: Rlangham - 12th August 2005 at 20:53
Doubt it, Vickers didn’t design aircraft until 1913. Would be interesting to know what the aircraft is, looked like a Demoiselle, or a monoplane version of the Shuttleworth collections Avro Triplane.
By: Andy in Beds - 12th August 2005 at 20:40
I think if memory serves me wright that was known as a Vickers 22
Yes BM I do believe you’re right.
Did Vickers ever build anything like that?
By: Andy in Beds - 12th August 2005 at 20:40
I think if memory serves me wright that was known as a Vickers 22
Yes BM I do believe you’re right.
Did Vickers ever build anything like that?
By: The Blue Max - 12th August 2005 at 19:58
Came across this review of the film, does anyone know what aircraft is in the photo at the bottom of the page? Looks like the same one used in ‘Wind in the Willows’ or ‘Mr Toads Wild Ride’ as its known in the US.
I think if memory serves me wright that was known as a Vickers 22
By: Andy in Beds - 12th August 2005 at 16:56
You’re a very naughty boy. 🙂 😉 🙂
The LFA example is exquisite which the Mag Men example really wasn’t.
Any more LFA Bleriot pictures to post???
Andy
By: Andy in Beds - 12th August 2005 at 16:39
Came across this review of the film, does anyone know what aircraft is in the photo at the bottom of the page? Looks like the same one used in ‘Wind in the Willows’ or ‘Mr Toads Wild Ride’ as its known in the US.
It’s a sort of ‘generic Bleriot’ replica made for the film.
It was flown by the character of Count Emilio Ponticelli.
According to Allen Wheeler it flew OK.
Again, any ideas what became of it.
Cheers
Andy
By: Rlangham - 12th August 2005 at 16:34
Came across this review of the film, does anyone know what aircraft is in the photo at the bottom of the page? Looks like the same one used in ‘Wind in the Willows’ or ‘Mr Toads Wild Ride’ as its known in the US.
By: mutant - 12th August 2005 at 15:32
Ouch!
That’s a bit of an investment! 😀
By: mutant - 12th August 2005 at 15:23
Melvyn,
Thanks for the info.
What is the book about making the film actually called? Is it a ‘historical perspective’ or is it a promotional booklet put out at the time the film was released?
By: Andy in Beds - 12th August 2005 at 11:26
Didn’t we have a thread on this last year? I can’t remember the outcome on the Antoinette but the book does say the wings were very flexible and control was marginal at best.
Yes, we did have a conversation about this last year.
No one could enlighten me about the Antoinette then but I live in hope of one day finding out.
Cheers
Andy
By: Propstrike - 12th August 2005 at 11:03
What they have done with them is knock them down, apart from Personal Planes Services hangar. It stands alone, propped up by a heap of Provost and Canberra bits.
The new hangars are of the low-rise, blue wriggly-tin variety.
By: Melvyn Hiscock - 12th August 2005 at 11:02
Didn’t we have a thread on this last year? I can’t remember the outcome on the Antoinette but the book does say the wings were very flexible and control was marginal at best.
By: TEXANTOMCAT - 12th August 2005 at 10:57
Blue Max is right, you can see the route of the old railway line they used when you go through Cardington on the way to OW village – just past the airship sheds.
They also filmed on Hampstead Heath – I know this cos my dad was at college at the time and he and his mates donned edwardian dress and headed down there for the crowd scenes (free beer apparently) coolest thing my dad has done, apart from nicking a Russian Guards AK-47 for a photo in Moscow.
TT
By: Andy in Beds - 12th August 2005 at 10:53
Hiscock,
never mind about the size of your equipment.
Can someone please shed any light on what happened to the Antoinette monoplane?
According to Allen Wheeler it was a pig to fly and underwent several modifications during filming to make it more flyable.
Despite that I can’t believe it was just broken up. Someone here once told me that they went to an auction at the end of the filming and it was for sale.
Is it still hidden away somewhere?
I’d love to know.
Cheers
Andy.
PS My favourite piece of flying in the film is where it lands over the old couple in the car. The ailerons fitted later in the filming are clearly visible and I reckon the pilot is working hard.
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