. The Darling Lili “SE5″s were absolutely hideous ,as I recall those in TBM (Miles?) not too bad. Also what happened to the Rousseau “DVII”s? -they seemed to disappear soon after. .

The Mini SE5’s were not that bad, to the General public they would look fine on the screen, the nose was scled wrong so they looked a little pug nosed!! They served well and did what was needed of them, very easy for people to scoff tears later :rolleyes: The miles SE5’s looked good but had a slightly longer nose to accomodate the Gipsy Queen Engine, they were also a bit of a handfull to fly.
The Rousseau DVII’s all went to the USA in the early 80’s to the FAC (see earlier post!!) They had been in store at Powerscourt with the rest of the Replica’s since the filming of VR & B. One is now with The Stampe Museum in Antwerp currently under rebuild, the other two are still in the USA, one with Javier Arango ( who also has the Bianchi Pfalz ) and is airworthy, the other is as far as i know not airworthy at this time with another US owner.

Miles SE5 and a Mini to compare. plus both in a line up at Weston

Would this film also account for another Dr1 replica on the G-info owned by someone we all know?

Nope, it would’nt

I thought I read somewhere (possibly on this very forum) that a few of the SE5a replicas were based around something else? :confused:

I’ve had a search but can’t find the thread it was mentioned on, so I’m probably completely wrong! :rolleyes:

Yep you are 😉
What you thinking of is the 7/8th SE5’s that were made by Slingsby’s based on The Curry Wot. These were made for the film “Darling Lili” that followed and utalized the other replica’s ( Film company’s like to get their moneys worth :rolleyes: ) It was derrek Piggots idea to reduce the amount of Tiger Moths used but also reduce the cost of producing more full size Replica’s
here is a pic of Dad with one of the Mini Se’s while shooting another film” You Carnt Win Em All” plus one of the Se’s durring “Darling Lili” Filming

Aircraft used for and constructed for “The Blue Max” were.

2 Fokker DR1’s built by Bitz Flugzeugbau in Germany, Based on Original Drawings
3 Fokker DVII’s built by Rousseau in France, based on original drawings.
2 SE5a’s Built by FG Mile at Shoreham, based on original drawings.
1 Pfalz DIII, built by Hampshire Aerplane Co designed by Ray Hilborne
1 Pfalz DIII, Built by Doug Bianchi and based on a Tiger Moth Fuselage.

The rest of the A/C used were .
2 Caudron Luciole’s
1 Morane MS230

Many Tiger Moth’s and Stampe@s painted up in WW1 Markings.

Camera ship was a Aloeutte Hellicopter

No Harts or Rapide’s to be seen anywhere! 😮

last one , A Found Centenial?

No that defo aint the Sywell tower in the background, as i say not sure where it is, Middle Wallop posibly? Still nice to see some Chippy pics whereever they are 🙂

To bring this thread into 2006 here are another six pics for you.

Glyn

1 T10 WD370 coded A
2 T10 WG428 coded M
3 22 G-AJVD coded 59
4 T10 WD693 of AAC coded S taken at Sywell on 11/July 1971
5 T10 WG458 coded N which was taken by Andy Anderson
6 T10 WG348 coded 11 of CFS at Wethersfield on 24 May 1969 again by Andy Anderson.

WB693 (Not WD :rolleyes: ) isnt talken at Sywell, not sure where it is but it aint Sywell. Nice to see a pic of WG348, this is now at Sywell as G-BBMV, flew he just the other day 🙂