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Exactly, as mentioned before there are longer stretches of motorway devoid of service areas, at 118 miles the M25 has just three,. Anyone who feels the need to rest after 30 minutes of driving should not be allowed to take their car out of their driveway :p

Three? I thought there was only two, South Mimms and Clackett Lane Where is the third?

Looking at the plans my concern is for road safety. The close proximity of the services to the junction will I feel turn the area into an accident blackspot with people coming on at junction 10 and people trying to get off at the services. We have the same problemon the M27 at Rownhams in both directions due to the close proximity to junction 4 for the M3 and junction 3 for the M271 which are about a mile apart. It is regularly congested and there are frequent accidents.

Nice to see her in the open. anyone know why she has ‘painted on’ windows on the fuselage? I’ve always found it curious.

We had the Utterly Butterly Stearmans over Gosport this weekend for the HMS Sultan Summer Show. Did a couple of Displays.

Martin

Ah yes of course. Thanks for that Dave (and Ollie). I’ve seen (genuine) footage of bouncing bombs being dropped by a Mosquito, can’t recall any similar (genuine not the film) of a Wellington – but can fully believe it. cheers

some of the footage in the original DB was the original test drops of the half size dummy prototypes

martin

Does anyone know if the Ju52 used in WED still flies?

As long as the CGI aircraft ‘behave’ properly (no impossible 20g turns etc) I’m confident that with modern CGI techniques we have a chance to see a good film.

If the Lancs are to be CGI then the help of that Japanese geek mentioned on here should be signed up and given the chance to shine. I cant really see the BBMF allowing PA474 to be used and the Panton brothers have already stated they would like ‘Jane’ to stay as she is.

As for Nigger it depends on what point of view the film is focused. If PJ is make it as a memorial to the NZ aircrew and focuses on that, then there is no need to mention Nigger other than the fact he gets run over. Then only the codeword for the breach of the Mohne Dam would be changed. In the original the only time that Nigger gets mentioned is when Gibson lands after his last raid of his current tour, and he calls Nigger(which could be replaced with “hello boy!”), the assembly at Scampton when Hopgood ‘buys’ Nigger a beer (could be referred to as ‘your dog’), the road accident (again could be referred to as ‘your dog’) and the much debated ‘apparition’ at the end. This way Nigger is still in the film without upsetting the Pathetic Cretin (PC) brigade.

Martin

I have the Goodall copy of LT and after reading Lancmans post I will be replacing it with another Goodall copy when it finally dies.
BTW has anyone read JCs sequel to LT,’Mosquito Victory’?