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“Sunset (Bird of Prey)” is a song by the British big beat artist Fatboy Slim, released from his 2000 album Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars. The single peaked at No. 9 in the UK

Music video

The music video of the song is set in 1964 and features Robert Jezek as a United States Air Force pilot flying a British-made Hawker Hunter fighter plane named the Bird of Prey. It opens with the famous “Daisy” television commercial, which was used as a campaign for President Lyndon B. Johnson during this year, showing the pilot sitting in a room watching this commercial. He drinks a glass of water which has something bubbling in it, intercut with an image of a brain and a piece of paper with text describing a chemical. An identification form with Fatboy Slim’s real name on it, (Colonel) “Norman Cook” is seen. As the drug comes on, he imagines he’s flying the plane, and he eventually ejects and parachutes down, and then the hallucination stops. The actual song is playing during the flight sequence. Near the end of the video one can see the word “MKULTRA”, which was a CIA-operated top secret confidential government project concerning mind control human experimentation, including using chemicals on test subjects (people) as truth serums. Also visible is another identification form with another name on it, Al Hubbard.

Filming

The filming took place at Duxford Aerodrome, and was produced by Flight Logistics of Borehamwood, who used an Aérospatiale Corvette to film the airborne scenes from.[1] The Hawker Hunter was in a USAF livery.[2]

Brian

Friday 25th August

Despite the wall to wall blue sky and sunshine and the temperature in the low 20’s, there was high, thin cloud which made lighting conditions for anything other than ground to ground photography atrocious.

Sony Alpha A6000 CSC & Tamron 18-200mm f3.5-6.3 Di-III VC Lens.

Brian

St Ives, Cambs has a few aviation related street names.

Brian

Thursday 10th August

It wasn’t raining so I went to Duxford. It was quiet apart from the visitors who were still queuing out of the visitor centre at mid-day to get in. Catalina was out for an engine run and the two-seat Spitfire’s were flying. PV202 with Classic Wings and NH341 was off to Sywell.

Sony Alpha A6000 CSC & Tamron 18-200mm f3.5-6.3 Di-III VC Lens.

Brian

Still nothing in the subject matter that is Historic, there is a thread for air shows, also the title is in capitals. That’s considered ‘SHOUTING’ on the internet.

Brian

On ITV4 – B-17 flying over touring car races at Snetterton. 😀

Brian

Feel free to post anything about Duxford or anywhere in your own threads

And if you want photographs, then get your own camera out and make the effort to visit Duxford yourselves instead of freeloading of those of us who do and then whinge and moan when we don’t post in those threads.

Brian