Anyone who was at the WLAC Families Day at White Waltham last Saturday, knows the ‘Chitty’ car can fly. Somebody was happily flying a r/c scale model through the afternoon!
In response to ‘Arm Waver’, the ‘Chitty’ airship was a replica Santos Dumont type and was flown a few times by Derek Piggott for the movie, who described its handling as ‘moderately dangerous’. I seem to remember it was eventually destroyed when strong winds blew it from its tie down and into trees.
It did most of its flying around Turville in Buckinghamshire, as the ‘Professor Potts’ windmill is above the village. Incidently the same village now doubles as the Vicar of Dibley’s Parish!
Final useless fact of the day. Did you know that the original Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, a Maybach aero-engined Brooklands racing car, was originally named after a rather dirty RFC song!
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