I wonder if the dilemma over whether the RFC pilot (captain Wood was it?) or ground fire from Aussie soliders shot down TRB will be resolved by the revelation that it was actually Tom Cruise/President Bush falling through a hole in time in his F14?

Ideally a Tupelov ‘Bear’. I don’t have a garden to speak of, but a quick run up of the engines now and again would stop people taking up all the parking spaces!

…If there isn’t one of those I’ll have a Shackleton MR3 please.

3 warbirds were in formation over Colchester (Stanway) at 16:55 any body know which aircraft they were one sounded like it had a radial one was blue, one duck eggshell white not sure on the other.
Many thanks,
NS

Total guess, but at airshows earlier in the year, a P47, P51 and Spitfire have been displaying together…

I don’t believe the SU-22 has ever flown in HHA ownership and I don’t forsee her flying for a while.

For info on the HHA S-22 see http://www.hunterteam.com/sukoi-22-M4_tech_specs.htm

The website doesn’t make it clear whether or not the aircraft has flown with them since it was delivered in 1999, but seeing as they advertise it as available for defence simulations etc. with 10 hardpoints and supersonic capability, I would have thought it was able to fly. HHA point out that as it was surplus to German airforce requirements after reunification, it was stored in airworthy condition for some time making it their youngest airframe and the one with the fewest flying hours.

Sadly it doesn’t look like it’s available for airshow displays at the moment at any rate. I emailed HHA and they got back to me very promptly, so if you wanted to know if the S-22 was flying, when and where etc. I imagine they would let you know.

Matt

Sorry, perhaps I should have explained a bit further – and by the way I am all for using real aircraft (crikey, real anything) in films. Dark Blue World used two real Spitfires from the OFMC (a Mk IX and a Mk V as I recall) for most of the aerial sequences but due to modern digital composite techniques (NOT CGI – this is being able to stick real things over other real things) could make this look like a whole squadron of Spitfires. They didn’t have money for Messerschmidts or Heinkels so they borrowed outtakes from Battle of Britain and ‘composited’ their own Spitfires onto them as well as adding things like trails of spent cartridges, flying debris etc… all of which look a lot more real than the stuck-on explosions from BofB originally.

There is no substitute for real aircraft, unless perhaps it’s a very big model. The filmmakers said as much and I’m glad of that – but these days digital compsiting gives filmmakers options they never had before. There were hundreds of hours of in flight footage taken for films like Battle of Britain, most of which might never be used – I would far rather filmmakers took advantage of this great, existing footage in the way that new technology allows than make half baked new stuff. I am not for doing away with filming new sequences – DBW had to film loads of new stuff, there is one bit on the making-of documentary where the director phones his dad and says ‘we just filmed the bit where the Spitfires attack the train – it cost as much as the whole of “Kolya”‘. I just think there are aircraft that look more like Bf109Es than T-6s.