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  • January 29, 2009 at 4:41 pm in reply to: Steve Fletcher #1224109
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    Thoughts are with his Wife and children 🙁

    January 29, 2009 at 4:17 pm in reply to: Hurricane First Flight at North Weald #1224120
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    I understand she was due to fly again today, was hoping to get down but sadly not:(

    January 28, 2009 at 10:28 pm in reply to: Caudron Luciole G-ATIP #1224972
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    No, as yet nothing has turned up on TIO 🙁 all pics are of TIP. You never know what might turn up, will keep looking. Here another one of TIP, same film different colour!!

    January 27, 2009 at 10:29 pm in reply to: Caudron Luciole G-ATIP #1226776
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    A couple of fairly low rez shots talken at Weston durring filming of “Von Richtoffen And Brown.

    January 23, 2009 at 9:39 pm in reply to: Caudron Luciole G-ATIP #1231611
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    Claude Roussueau was responsible for producing the three Fokker DVII’s for the film. I can only assume that the Luciole came along in the deal, maybe for use as a camera ship?? nothing’s coming up at the mo but i’ll keep digging!!
    Any one else got anything??

    January 18, 2009 at 8:51 pm in reply to: Caudron Luciole G-ATIP #1237777
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    Hi Tony

    Hoped you would spot this one and jump in, great pic from Paddy. If you see him some time, he said he would put some pics on a disc for me when i saw him at the reunion.

    Maybe we are all chasing somthing that never existed, the Luciole is listed as distroyed in Eire in 1965 but maybe it was not durring filming??
    Lynn garrison thinks is crashed and was used as set dressing and burned, maybe it didnt crash durring filming??

    Matthew

    January 15, 2009 at 2:13 pm in reply to: Caudron Luciole G-ATIP #1161867
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    Thanks Willip, will send PM.

    January 14, 2009 at 11:44 am in reply to: Caudron Luciole G-ATIP #1162683
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    One source has suggested to me that it was damaged and then subsiqently burned durring the filming of the sequence when Stachel brings the allied two seater back to the German Airfield. Whether this is true or not i carnt confirm at this point, certainly the burning wreckage in the film when the allied airman are pulled free looks to be a Tiger not Caudron. will see if i can find out more.

    January 13, 2009 at 9:11 am in reply to: Caudron Luciole G-ATIP #1163620
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    Great pic Willip, any chance of getting a better resolution copy for the family archives?
    GTW became EI-ARB and was lost in a mid air with camera helicopter Alouette G-AWEE off Wiclow Head on the 18-8-70 durring the filming of “Zeppelin”, sadly claiming the lives of the Irish Air Corp pilot Jim Liddy of the SE5 and all on board the Alouette, this included pilot Gilbert Chomat “Gilly”, camera man Skeets Kelly and dirrector Burch Williams.

    January 12, 2009 at 10:30 pm in reply to: Caudron Luciole G-ATIP #1163834
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    After filming of Blue Max all the Aircraft were placed into store at Baldonnel, they were all used again for “Darling Lili” and “Von Richtoffen and Brown” also they were used for a Cliff Robertson film that was never completed, “I shot down the Red Baron I think”
    EI-ARF was used in these films also, below is a shot of it at Weston durring filming of “I Shot” Will see if i have any other shots of it durring filming.
    It was badly damaged in the hangar collapse at poweresourt . I have wondered what happened to it following its time with the FAC.
    Bald Eagle, i dont wont to high jack the thread but do you have any idea what happened to any of the slingsby mini SE5s that were also brought by the FAC and i assume went to Frank Ryder. N908AC, 909AC, 910AC, 912AC.

    January 12, 2009 at 9:50 am in reply to: Help – flying helmet extension lead #1164689
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    few people have asked… these are the ‘peltor/milspec’ plugs.

    the plugs are Nexus TJ120 series.
    http://www.pambry.co.uk/fourconductor.htm

    The Nexus plugs are American NATO and not the UK type, they are smaller than the UK NATO. UK NATO are still readily available from people like Adams Aviation, Light Aero Spares etc so you can make up your own lead to what ever length you need.
    Have you tried MART Aviation at http://www.martaviation.com, thet have ready made extension leads in stock, or at least they still have them listed!!!
    I have a couple but they are still in regular use im affraid:)

    January 9, 2009 at 11:20 am in reply to: Bulldog in Reach For the Sky #1168391
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    And to add to the fun, whats the wing tips at the right of the pic, 504??

    December 15, 2008 at 11:13 am in reply to: Some Historic Pictures #1192580
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    Just as a bit of an update, G-ACDA is now very alive and well and airworthy again. She flew again this year and was at the Sywell Airshow in August!!

    December 7, 2008 at 6:13 pm in reply to: Warbirds in civilian colour schemes #1200481
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    Fantastic, i presume this is the one now at Hendon? Whats the tailplane in thr foreground?

    December 7, 2008 at 3:29 pm in reply to: Warbirds in civilian colour schemes #1200558
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    For some this one will not get ‘Warbird’ status. 😉

    Nash collection at LHR in, from memory, 1961.

    Mark

    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v634/Mark12/Album%204/LoftFilmNo337a.jpg

    I for one dont care, thanks for posting a great pic! looks like a DVII U/C in the foreground?

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