RE: Favourite War Movies / themes

“Cross of Iron” is one of the warmovies I still remember. Classified as too violent, it showed wat war was realy about, a waste of people.The same can be said for “Das Boot” and “Stalingrad” Recently, in Holland and Belgium a film was/is shot called “Resistance”. It is about Carpetbagger B24’s and looking at the high quality Liberator they made in full scale, it is now in a museum in Luxenburg, it must be a good movie. I still hope that one day a movie will be made on “Monte Casino”.

RE: Eurpoean Connie movements

Yes, we are living in an (historic) aviation minefield. However, as the aircraft is owned and operated by the national aviation museum, which is governement accredited, things are a bit “less” tense (so far). Apart from that, it is registrated in the US (N749NL) and the Aviodome is clever enough not to reregistrate it with PH , as this will mean a lot of trouble. Apart from this, I don’t think the Connie will do much flying, maybe this year untill the end of the season, but then it most probably is limited at best, due to the high insurance costs. The DC-2 only flew 1 or 2 flights in 2001, and hasn’t flown in 2002 (yet). Best way of seeing it will be the August 31 airshow in Lelystad. It will be in the new colours, photo oppertunities are excellent here, and that day will be a gathering of almost all Dutch aircraft from the antiques, vintage and warbird scene, many of those never seen outside Holland.

RE: Eurpoean Connie movements

Phill,

The Dutch Constellation has all of its fuselage, wings and tail highly polished. The roof of the fuselage is glossy white, while a small red cheatline is fitted where the white and silver meets eachother. It has the “Connies comeback” logo painted on the nose aerea. The “Aviodome” logo is on all 4 engine nacalles. Last, it has http://www.aviodome.nl painted on its fuselage. After arriving in Holland, it will be repainted in an other livery, so to see it like this, a trip to Holland has to be made as it goes in the paintshop before the Waddington airshow (I think). I shall announce the arriving date on the forum one or two days in advance.

The Swiss Connie is in a lesser condition, a lot of work has to been done, and I don’t think it will make a ferry in 2002. It will be based at Mulhouse-Basel. On the inside it is rather good, and passenger seats were already there.

The MATS Connie had some engine troubles and was grounded when I was there. Not a bad sight to see 3 potential flying Constellations standing next to eachother (with some 4 C-54 , 1 DC-4 and a Neptune (all firefighters) in the background).

Let me now if you want more details,Roger

RE: What WW2 story ?

A movie on the Berlin Airlift, the Super Constellation operations (and other props) during “Biafra” and a movie with lots of ME-262’s, DO-335, ME-110 & JU-88 nightfighters and some Messerschmitt “Gigants” in it.

RE: Airshow prices…

Living in Holland and Spain, where most airshows are free, or no expensive than maybe 1.5 to 3 pound sterling, and then the people start complaining and boycotting the event, I think it is criminal to ask such prices. When you look to the recent IAT’s, to me it is just a way of milking the people out. At first you have to pay the high entrance fee, then you pay more for a bustour (they are clever enough to park some of the interesting aircraft at the other side, so you have to take the bus, and following, as most of the runway view is blacked by tents, chalets and other vip or sponsoreed obstacles, you have to pay for a seat on the tribune if you want to take photographs. I also have the feeling that, to boost the cheaper (in advantage) tickets sales , they come with highlights that, after you have bought the tickets, don’t show up. Where were the Greek Albatross, the Beriev flying boat and all the others that never showed up, but were prommissed to get us to buy our tickets? For something that expensive I expect the best show in the world, but it isn’t. I don’t want to pay a lot for seeing 20 KC-135’s standing in a row.