I thought I’d post this on this thread as it wasn’t mentioned on the old thread. I was told this by a very good friend who was part of the restoration team for the B25 at Duxford at the time of filming of Hanover Street.
The film company asked if they could borrow it to film the interior shots for the film, DX said yes and the 25 was moved to wherever for filming. On return to DX the 25 was in a rough state because of the size of the camera equipment the film company had taken a chainsaw to the fuselage and cut it in two. So the camera could sit between both sections a film the action. To remedy the surgery the film company pushed the 2 parts back together and put a strap of metal over the join and bolted it together and returned it to DX. To say DX and the resto team were unhappy is probably an understatement, and to top it off I don’t think DX got and compensation for the damage done.
Tyler.
I remember a fusalage in the sound stage at Elstree Studios for the internal scenes. They fired the machine guns, borrowed from an armoury somewhere, and fired blanks on the set. Some wooden and perspex turrets were added to the B25’s at Luton before filming started. I remember the top turret on Big Bad Bonnie came off in flight and hit the tail, denting the leading edge. Also we found a few holes in the skin near the cockpit caused by Flak.
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