Soon to be released on Digitally Restored DVD

This title will be released on March 29, 2010

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Man-Sky-DVD-Jack-Hawkins/dp/B002VD5S8S/ref=cm_cr-mr-title

http://www.play.com/DVD/DVD/4-/12308735/The-Man-In-The-Sky/Product.html

Etc.

Another bit of aviation history now available to all (well all with PAL Region 2 )

Not quite hard facts but the novel “Go Slowly, Come Back Quickly” by David Niven includes a pilot’s experiences with the Merchant Ship Fighter Unit.

http://members.madasafish.com/~d_hodgkinson/hawker-lnks.htm

Hurricanes can turn up in the most unexpected places!

THE ROYAL AIR FORCE LICHFIELD ASSOCIATION

hi, i have a very good friend who in the late 1980s/early 1990s.

who found a complete aileron from a hawker typhoon, lying on the surface at litchfield, a town north east of birmingham city, UK ,I think ,

i met someone else who jumped down into a ditch there to take a pee, who bashed his knee on a “Armour Plate” from a typhoon there as well,

now i know there was a major scrapping operation there, many moons ago,
But my question is, 1= Does the site still exist and does anyone remember which fields it is in?, and 2, is anything left?, and 3 ,if there is a possibility of anything left, who would be keen on doing a magnetometer survey over th site (permission permitted) with me ,some time in th future ?,

Could this be RAF Lichfield known locally as Fradley ?
The THE ROYAL AIR FORCE LICHFIELD ASSOCIATION web site is http://www.raf-lichfield.co.uk/home.htm

The Curborough sprint circuit does use part of the old Fradley airfield.

How about “The VIPs” 1963 film (Richard Burton & Elizabeth Taylor) set in London Heathrow.

I never thought that the 60s would look like ancient history – but it does !

From “Midlands Today” of 8th. August …..

A viewer asked Birmingham University history professor Dr. Chinn to investigate a dimly remembered crash from his childhood. The result was to identify a Spitfire crash on 25th. September 1942.

21 year old pilot Sgt. John Fredrick MacNamara was killed in the crash due to port wing failure after a violent pull out on emerging from low cloud. The pilot was buried in his hometown of Bristol.

The site of the crash is now the cricket club ground at Alsager (north of Stoke-on-Trent) where a plaque is to be unveiled shortly. Perhaps that will be the reason for the coming broadcast?

have a look at
http://members.madasafish.com/~d_hodgkinson/hawker-guide.htm

Russia – Hurricane IIc – “BM959” Unveiled as a war memorial at Revda, 200 miles from Murmansk in northern Russia on 1st. September 1989. The aircraft had been recovered from a crash site near Lov Ozero on the Kola Peninsula, renovated and placed on a concrete plinth with the inscription “To the Fighting Brotherhood of the Allies in the struggle against Fascism during WWII and in the memory of the pilots who did not return from combat and who died in the tundra, mountains, lakes and swamps of the Russian North”. The lightly damaged but weather-beaten plane was discovered with a Merlin XX engine, four 20mm canon and a tropical filter. The photo is taken from “Warbirds Worldwide” journal 30 of September 1994, which includes the story of the recovery of the aircraft.

The film only covers the first half of the book – up to where the couple meet up in Australia.

The second half of the book is where the title comes from. How they help develop a tiny outback outpost into ‘A Town Like Alice’ that has enough facilities to keep local girls from moving out (and have the young men follow them!)

Alice Springs being the only town of any size for hundreds of miles.