Being flown by Ray Hanna?

You think so? I would have said the desert filter-fitted Spit Vs.

Nah! The tropical filter looks good on the V. The XII has a nose too short for a proper Griffon and too long for a Merlin, it’s kind of halfway. The tail is too small for the nose, and the four blader looks all wrong on a Griffon. It has the pointy rudder in combination with clipped wings, and the asymetric radiator is too small for a Griffin Spit. Out of the whole Spitfire family, which I otherwise love without exception let me say, the MkXII is the one they should have locked in the atic and fed on bread and water. Back to the foxhole. :rolleyes:

The Telegraph features editor is either having a slow news day or has a poor memory. The same newspaper ran this story ten years ago, but then Mel Gibson, not David Frost, was the the big name attached to it. It was a hoax then, probably is now.

We can only imagine what a Mel Gibson version would be like. B25s of the six seventeenth BG dropping supplys to the beleagured civilians of the Rhur valley, caught in the deluge created by the evil genius Ernst Stavros “Butcher” Harris, played of course by Alan Rickman. Pity about poor old Ronnie Barker; in a David Frost version he would have been a shoe in for the part.

Bring on Monica Rose – that’s what I say. Wonder if she’s still alive?

I’m afraid her web bio doesn’t hold out much hope;

Chirpy Cockney junior accounts clerk who appeared, aged 15, on Double Your Money as a contestant, winning £8 answering questions on Famous Women. Hughie Green asked her back to become a hostess on the show and the subsequent The Sky’s the Limit. Sadly, Rose committed suicide some years later.

There was an attempt by mel gibson to remake the dambusters about 10 years ago using CGI for the lancs there was an article i think in ‘the sun’ about it at the time and they said it would be a computer generated farce as the story would no doubt be another ‘how the americans won the war single handed’ film etc.

Mel Gibson certainly has previous convictions. My bet is that the 617BG would fly over in B25’s to drop relief supplies to belegured Germans, trapped by rising floodwaters caused by evil criminal mastermind Dr Bounce Wallis’s attempt to corner the world market in black labradors.

On the question of the removal of cannon, surely that’s where cgi is best. The cannon can be digitally removed without need to modify the aircraft.

My nomination for best use of 100 percent cgi aircraft in a movie goes to the Stuka attack in Captain Correli’s Mandolin. The aircraft were shown only in brief glimpses. If I didn’t know there are no flying examples of Ju87 I might have been convinced, as I am sure Joe Public was

I should be out on the trike. Instead I shall be taking it to bits because the electrickery is b*ggered

The best so far was describing the Lanc as a nuclear bomber.

….. Avro Bison …….. Blackburn Dart…… Vickers Vernon …. Westland Walrus.

Give me an old chair leg, a Stanley knife and a decent drawing of any one of them and I’ll play happily for weeks. Ugly aircraft make the best models.