There’s an odd quote about Buchons from my desktop calendar:

“The marvellous film Battle of Britain brought together Rolls-Royce-powered Spitfires in cinematic conflict with Rolls-Royce-powered Messerschmitts! Here’s a trivia question for you: Did the Spanish reverse the offset in the Messerschmitt’s vertical fin to compensate for the opposite rotation of the Rolls?”

I always thought the DB engine rotated the same way as the Merlin?? :confused:

Your are of course correct Daz.

I think the Hispano Suiza that powered the early Buchons turned the opposite way to the DB & Merlin hence the fin offset.

However, you would have thought that they would have fixed this on the Merlin powered machines! :rolleyes:

I wonder though if this is one of those stories that is more myth than fact? :confused:

Cheers

Paul

P51wingman

You might like to try here:

http://www.bianchiaviation.com/

They are rebuilding a MKV for Kermit Weeks.

TomW who works for PPS posts here now and again so you might want to PM him.

Cheers

Paul

I do, but I’m not sure if it will make it to the final cut! There’s lots of material to choose from.

Paul, no minicams I’m afraid, Shuttleworth don’t generally allow them.

Damm shame. 🙁

I wonder why, as they used to.

A few of the old Aviation Action tiltes had minicam footage from Shuttleworth planes and I believe they did when you filmed ‘Battle For The Skies’! 🙂

Btw, do you have any plans to release ‘Spitfire Sound & Vision which you were working on yonks ago?

Cheers

Paul

Fluffy,

I seem to recall that there were a couple of threads here a while back with some good close up colour shots of the artwork.

Actually, I think I saved them on my PC for reference! 😉

I can’t find the exact thread, but did find this one which has a fairly close colour shot:

http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=28209&page=2&pp=30&highlight=EN951

And thanks for the info about the new ‘Majors’.

I too thought it was a bit soon for AB910 to be having one!

[EDIT] Found this one too. No close ups, but it seems Daz might well get what he asked for! 🙂

http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=39492&highlight=BM144

Cheers

Paul

Drooling already….

Me Too! 🙂

Thanks Easy Tiger for posting the pics and updating us on this exciting project.

Cheers

Paul

Oooo, now that looked rather expensive! 😮

Cheers

Paul

Ah, the ‘secret’ that those in the know have known about for months………Dont get too excited, it’s not moving very far! 😉

THT’s Grumman Avenger?

Cheers

Paul

I really doubt they heard it in Holland…

According to a news report I heard earlier, it measured 2.2 on the Richter scale.

Now, our household never heard a thing (well, we were fast asleep), but someone who lives in Midhurst (about 10 or so miles south) e-mailed the BBC and said they heard it there! And someone also said they heard it in Worthing. :confused:

Anyway, one things for sure, we like many could see the massive effect of the smoke.

Here’s a few shots my dad took whilst out on an afternoon walk not far from us.

First two from Hurt hill, Haslemere looking at the blast site

And looking at the scene of the blast from the Gibbet at Hindhead

And finally, from the Gibbet, but looking towards Dorking

Cheers

Paul