As far as i know, the last time i was talking to Desmond Normans son Alex, he told me that the 3 turbo Firecrackers were being used by a test pilots school in America.

Oh great. More bloody photos. What is this forum coming to? The dogs, that’s what.

I rearly do not know what people’s ******* problem is, i for one like to see pic’s from displays i havent managed to get to, or for that matter one’s i was at or participating in. Keep up the good work chaps, as for the winger’s, get a life for ***** sake!!

Thanks Consul, that would be great.

will check with unc when i see him and see if he know what happened to the models. As for pics, here’s one of the flying rep under construction in 1968.

Thanks Blue Max, I was aware of the large scale models (by David Boddington according to an old magazine I found in Dad’s R/C mag collection) and the ground replicas in full scale, but I never knew they’d gone to the lengths of going to the USA for shooting the flying replica. I guess it must have been for dogfight scenes mainly.

Does anyone know if the 1/1 scale non-flying repilcas or the models survived in museums? Or even just the BBC prop department?

I dont know if any of the full size BE2 ground reps survived but as RPSmith says the full size Pup rep built by DB is with MAM at Coventry. Im fairly sure that at one time some of the model were at the Model Museum at Goosdale Notts, not even sure if the museum stilll exsists.
The shots talken of the be2 rep in the US were mainly take off and landing shots, all the dog fight shots were done with models.

The BBC did go out to the USA and take some photage of her for “Wings” but no she was not built for wings, most of the flying for “Wings” was done with RC mode aircraft. The full size replica’s used were ground taxiable only
Yi was built in 1968/69 for a feature film based on the “Biggles books”, the film was never completed!
Keep a look out in your favorite b pulications for the full story!!l

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Maybe we should divulge a bit more Matt, Ben’s sounding like he’s going to burst!

Oh Ok, just for Ben here’s a pic of said crate at Sywell in 1969, and if anyone does have any pics of her at any time then all would be gratefully recieved.