Hi T6flyer. I’m really enjoying AI flight planning and have all of the freeware packages for military flights but would love to populate an RAF airfield of the 1950’s with appropriate A/C. I know some people have some success with Kazunori Ito ‘s models but even if I remove the panel folders etc I still have poor frame rates-any ideas?

Just finished reading Malta-the Hurricane Years and Malta-the Spitfire Years and I have to say after reading several books on Malta prior to these non put over what an absolutely one sided slogging match the early years were for the defenders with appaling losses for the RAF and Navy aircrews flying outdated and unsuitable aircraft while the best equipment was kept back in the UK for “Leaning Forward into France” The Legend of Malta is justified but my God what a cost. I do feel that a diary format for military campaigns helps to put this over very well as in “Neville Dukes War Diary” a real eye opener as to what a fighter pilot in the western desert got up to.

Yes indeed-it makes one wonder how much footage survives from that movie as Dark Blue World used a lot, but Fighting the Blue showed even more!. I for one would buy a DVD showing all extant footage.

Michael Bentine of the Goons was ops officer at Fiskerton I believe.
In his book on spiritualism he says he could see a death mask on the faces of those about to get the chop.
Ken Adam the Oscar winning Bond film set designer was a German national who moved to the UK in the 30’s and flew with the RAF in Typhoons over Normandy.
Michael Horden was fighter controller on HMS Illustrious.
Anthony Quayle was fighting with Albanian partisans.

But it should make the projected BoB film Cruise is supposed to be keen on doing very interesting. If he’s soloed on a P51, a Spit or Hurricane should’nt be too much trouble. I can’t recall a film in which the star actually flew an aircraft. Weird guy but I can’t help liking him.

I’ve had a bee in my bonnet for some years over the paucity of good recordings of restored aircraft, having to rely on Hollywood for some of the best stuff, however could I ask Steve Connor if wide screen Dolby 5.1 recordings are prohibitively expensive for enthusiast type films. I sometimes fantasize about good quality cinema style DVD’s of Black 6 and the Mosquito whose losses could have been somewhat allieviated by recording these machines in the finest possible quality for future generations to enjoy. Perhaps now is the time to start a library of endangered species before it’s too late.

William Walton’s piece “War in the Air” was the only piece used in the film “Battle of Britain”, however, his complete score for the film, most of which was rejected, is now available on CD.