At last, I’ve got around to sorting out the mishmash of the film of the only available footage of Westlands P9 War wagon… 😉
I don’t know whether it was ever put together and shown at the time, so it’s really only my slant on what it should have been…
Again, its a WIP (Low Res) so don’t go thinking this is the finished product, cause it ain’t… 😀
The original soundtrack, what little there was needed to be put back in sync on the copy I bought!
Any Whoo, here it is:
By: MrBlueSky - 8th December 2007 at 00:16
Update…
Put some new sequences in to the leadup to the Peregrines starting, also theres only the engines in the soundtrack now…
By: bradleygolding - 2nd December 2007 at 11:49
Interesting.
bradleygolding – we obtained stills from the Pathe archive, officially with permission to publish, for my Lysander book. The stills were reproduceable in print at a couple of inches square, pretty good for film, and enabled us to illustrate a couple of aspects otherwise missed. As you spotted, the ratio sometimes seems off.
Regards,
Hi James,
When Stu sent me the info last year he suggested that a broadcast copy of the footage would be about £800, although he didn’t say if he intended to publish it in any form. He obviously got hold of a copy, I just wondered what he opted for exactly.
I still need to get back to you about Lysander cockpit photos, I haven’t fogotten, but they are not in any way urgent.
Al the best,
Steve
By: EN830 - 2nd December 2007 at 11:00
Pathe kindly sent me a free video when I organising the Woodward/McPhail memorial.
The filming was done at Warmwell in late 1942 and is slightly longer than this Youtube clip. In the first clip the big guy on the right wearing a white fying suit is Flt/Lt Geoff Warnes, he was a Yorkshire man who, a bit like Bader, overcame officialdom in order to fly. He was arguably the first fighter pilot to fly operations wearing contact lenses.
Warnes was lost north of Guernsey on 22 Feb 1944 in a Typhoon of 263 Sqn.
The chap in a later clip seen pulling on his flying helmet, the Whirlwind coded “N”, is Sqn Ldr Robert Woodward DFC who was to loose his life a couple of months later while attacking shipping to the south of Jersey on 7 December 1942. Prior to serving with 263, Woodward had been on Beaufighters with 600, being awarded the DFC for shooting down 3 night raiders, though subsequent research has confirmed that this was two, and on Whirlwinds with 137 Sqn where he operated from Colishall and Malaske. Woodwood transferred to 263 the day before the Channel Dash and missed out on the action 137 saw during that short period.
By: BSG-75 - 2nd December 2007 at 09:27
wonderful…
a real “what if” with me the Whirlwind…. lovely looking thing as well.
By: JDK - 2nd December 2007 at 07:53
Interesting.
bradleygolding – we obtained stills from the Pathe archive, officially with permission to publish, for my Lysander book. The stills were reproduceable in print at a couple of inches square, pretty good for film, and enabled us to illustrate a couple of aspects otherwise missed. As you spotted, the ratio sometimes seems off.
Regards,
By: bradleygolding - 2nd December 2007 at 06:55
Hi Stu,
Very good, I didn’t realize that you had bought a copy from Pathe, It’s much better than the downloadable one that you forwarded to me a while ago with other Whirlwind stuff. So what was the quality of the copy you orderd and how much ? (you can email me an answer if you don’t want it public).
I think though that the aspect ratio needs changing, both the wheels and the roundels look a little tall (maybe -10% on the height).
Keep it up,
All the best,
Steve
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