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April 10, 2016 at 7:09 am in reply to: Another 'Dambusters' film query #891399

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According to the various ‘Dambusters’ specials produced in 2013 the first Lanc took off from Scampton at 9.28 p.m. If Britain was on Double Summer time in 1943 then it is just possible the sun would be setting as they flew over the North Sea as sunset would be about 10.15 p.m so the depiction in the film is accurate although the sun is in the wrong position relative to the aircraft. All the paintings of the aircraft flying towards the Dutch coast produced by various artists show darkness and a full moon.

March 24, 2016 at 8:35 am in reply to: '633 Squadron 'Film Queries" #903202

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Thanks for all your feedback which is most appreciated.I recall reading’ Airborne’ by Neil Williams about 20 years ago and recall that he said that the first time he flew a Mosquito was in 1968 when he piloted TA634 from Speke to Bovingdon.

March 22, 2016 at 8:08 pm in reply to: '633 Squadron 'Film Queries" #903956

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That’s what most books and articles say. But in the book ‘Flying Film stars’ Mark Ashley claims that Neil Williams and Martin Caidin were two of the Mosquito pilots. Caidin was also co-pilot of the B-25 camera plane and pilot of one of the Bf108s.

February 27, 2016 at 1:11 pm in reply to: '633 Squadron' film nose gun query #922891

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The FB Mark VI Mosquito had a shorter bomb bay capable of carrying two bombs. The aircraft used in the film were mainly TT35s with a full length bomb bay capable of carrying four bombs. In Frederick E Smith’s 1956 novel of ‘633 Squadron’ and subsequent sequels it was explained that the Mosquitos were a hybrid type with a full-length bomb bay,two short barrelled 20mm cannon and two 0.303 Brownings.

February 27, 2016 at 1:06 pm in reply to: '633 Squadron' film nose gun query #922896

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Thank you for this explanation. When I attended the September 1999 conference on the film at Duxford there were some B & W photos of these ‘flats’ but obviously sitting in a studio. I had no idea they were used at Bovingdon. Thanks for the information.

February 26, 2016 at 10:30 am in reply to: '633 Squadron' film nose gun query #923520

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Thanks for your replies. I am very familiar with the Strathallan museum as I am Scottish. I saw RS712 flying from Strathallan at the 1976 and 1977 air displays. It looks as though the paint was removed from the bomb aimer’s panel of RS712 for ‘The Avengers’ episode and it stayed that way until the aircraft was painted silver after its arrival at Strathallan in late 1975. I don’t remember any ‘nose art’ on ‘633 Sguadron’ or ‘Mosquito Squadron’ Mossies other than swastika kill markings. Bovingdon was also used for ‘The Liquidator’ I believe (which had some Vickers Valiant sequences). Some articles have also claimed that some sequences for ‘Battle of Britain ‘ were filmed there. I think this in incorrect though the aircraft used in ‘Battle of Britain’ were moved to Bovingdon for a while in the autumn of 1968 as they couldn’t stay at Duxford any longer.

May 16, 2015 at 4:06 pm in reply to: Lancaster G-ASXX / NX611 – 50 years since her epic return to the UK from Australia #910191

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thanks for the credit, we all enjoyed out time volunteering at the museum.

I have a cunning plan to visit East Kirkby in September and will certainly buy a copy of that book.

Did you include reference to the filming of Family at War while the Lancaster was at Blackpool? oddly the cover poster for the series dvds shows a B17 however I am certain night filming took place around the Lancaster,or could this have been and intro to the series Airline which also filmed at squires Gate?

NX611 was indeed used in an episode of ‘Family at War’ in February 1971 while at Blackpool. In 1996 I obtained some behind-the-scenes photos of the filming which I late gave to the Panton brothers. The DVD cover does indeed show a B17 and this was one of the French IGN B-17s which were used in a later episode while based at Criel.

March 31, 2015 at 5:15 pm in reply to: 'Sally B' in 'Last Flight of Noah's Ark'? #864081

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hi,
I visited Duxford way back, and Elliott Gould was being interviewed by a camera crew but I,m sure he/they were by the B.29, which was outside then, if I remember correctly the film was about a B.29.

regards,
jack…

Yes that’s correct the film featured B-29 ‘Fertile Myrtle’ which was /is based in the USA. . The photo in ‘Aeroplane’ clearly shows Ellott Gould and the ‘Sally B’ flight crew standing in front of ‘Sally B’ not the Duxford B-29. The ‘Sally B’ website also mentions that the aircraft was used in the film thought it is simply called ‘Noah’s Ark’ on the website not ‘The Last Flight of Noah’s Ark’.

December 30, 2013 at 3:37 pm in reply to: Aircraft parts in films #935581

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The Roger Moore movie ‘Crossplot’ (1968) features a Mosquito B.35 nose /cockpit section (one of the ones used for cockpit shots in ‘633 Squadron’ and ‘Mosquito Squadron’) but painted white or light grey as I recall.

December 30, 2013 at 3:32 pm in reply to: Aircraft parts in films #935584

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Didn’t a couple of Vickers Vimy engines crop up in the background in an old Doctor Who episode?

This was mentioned in ‘Aeroplane’ some years ago. I recall it was Vimy nacelles and engines from a replica aircraft (I think Shawcraft Models made them). They ended up on the backlot at Shepperton Studios and thus appeared in the background in some shots in the second Amicus Dalek movie (Dalek Invasion Earth 2150 AD) starring Peter Cushing (1966). Colin

December 14, 2013 at 7:49 am in reply to: Messerschmitt over Ireland? #946740

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Yes I remember reading that . I recall it was a 109G, probably fitted with extra fuel tanks.

July 23, 2013 at 8:47 am in reply to: Heads up, "the plane that saved Britain". #1006919

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I would agree that the Mosquito was not really a ‘forgotten’ aircraft as the film -makers claimed – think of the ‘633 Squadron’ and ‘Mosquito Squadron’ films and all the ‘633 Squadron’ books. Also it was not made clear that only one squadron of Mossies was equipped with the 57mm Molins gun and I think the reason was that underwing rockets were available later in the war which – though lacking the pinpoint accuracy of the 57mm gun – had far greater destructive power. COLIN

June 24, 2013 at 9:58 am in reply to: Airworthy Mosquito for sale? #950728

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People’s Mosquito

Part of the problem, as I understand it, is stage inspection and facilities provision which all must be done in/by UKCAA approvals. As KA144 was not built in said UKCAA approved premises or inspected by UKCAA approved licensed engineers, then there is a not too much hope for it to be flown in Blighty.

Thanks for correcting me on this matter. But if this is true what is going to happen to the ‘People’s Mosquito’ project which I understand involved rebuilding a Mossie in NZ? Or are they going to rebuild it in the UK with parts obtained from NZ?

March 30, 2013 at 4:37 pm in reply to: Leuchars Air Show on two wheels #947317

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I haven’t been on a motorbike but have been umpteen times on a pedal cycle. I take the bike to Dundee on a roof mounted cycle carrier,park in the Discovery Centre car park, then take the bike over the Tay Bridge and cycle to Leuchars. Takes 30 -45 minutes and you avoid the jams. I usually padlock the bike to a pole near the entrance

Colin

February 12, 2013 at 2:22 pm in reply to: Grumman Avenger with two highball bombs #999945

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No mention of Avenger in Des Curtis’ Most Secret Squadron about the Highball Mosquito (well not from a quick scan of the index anyway).

So that awful film “Mosquto Squadron” which combined the truth of The Dambusters and Operation Jericho with the fiction of 633 Squadron to have Mosquitos breaking prison walls with land bouncing bombs had a small cell of truth in it, amazing.

The black and white film of a Mosquito dropping a “Highball” on land which appears in “Mosquito Squadron” is genuine WW2 footage.
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