I’m quite convinced that soon we will be able to reproduce exact images of long dead actors/actresses, a chilling thought, this will make a/c scenes a ‘piece of cake’ to produce.

This has already been partially done with Steve McQeen using the car chase from Bullitt using a Ford Puma and the cast of Happy Days for Citroen cars (I personally prefer the Ford effort).

Anyone notice it has a Tornado Fin?

IIRC most of the aircraft uses Tonka parts The rear fuse is modified F3, main undercart, canopy and a lot of the avionics that werent ready for the aircraft all came from a Tonka. It also used RB199D engines (The D denoting thrust reverse removed).

I think it was a mod made when one of the countries in the consortium who were supposed to build the rear fuse pulled out when it was the ACA program so to complete the airframe Tornado bits were used to create the EAP prototype. I may be wrong though.

I spent a week there on ATC camp when they had Hawks, Hunters and Gnats – Great.

Steve.

I spent a week there in 1986 on atc summer camp most of it spent in the Gym as the camp was flooded out. then to top it off one of the tents got blown across the camp

Martin

The only aviation related Item I found at a car boot was a Corgi USAAF comemorative gift set with Sally B, P51 ‘Big Beautiful Doll and P47 No Guts No Glory for a fiver.

There is a story in Jack Curries book ‘Lancaster Target’ where he flew a Lancaster back from Hamburg minus wing tips back to where the ailerons should have been then tried to land with bombs on board! they eventually ditched the remaining bombs and landed safely

There are some great shots in post 201 too. Ray Hanna RIP

The US viewing market is large yes, but it must be one of the most pathetic in the world when their studios (which lets face it do a lot of market research and know who they are making films for) feel they have to alter history in a historic film to the point where it becomes fiction, even trash, simply to make it more, um, believable to them. Hmm. I expect some backlash to this statement from US posters, but you are not the mass viewing market films are made for. You are the ones who do know and care about history enough to be discussing it here. I’m sure you’d rather see the truth as much as I, rather than extra explosions, love triangles and all the other attachments to “true” stories too. It cannot be just the filmmakers’ to blame, it’s society I believe.

I agree Dave I tried to make this point earlier in the thread but ended up wording it wrong and got accused of being xenophobic. you only have to look at past films (U571 springs to mind where this has happened) where this has happened