Did we have a Havard over here that was turned into a zero?

James

I hope that question has no relation to the first post in this thread 😮

I don’t think Firebirds post falls in to that category – he clearly stated that the aircraft “touched down safely at Yeovilton”.

The wet wing mod was not done by Trent Aero. The large battery was installed to try and bring the C of G aft because of the wet wings.

Strange to try to sort out a CoG issue by using the battery (ie: something which need to be removed from the a/c each year) rather than some nice permenant lumps of lead :confused:

Strange really – I was even involved in the filming for a few days at Lydd, looking after one or two Spitfires for the cliffs scenes. I well remember a pilot briefing for the bomber attack scene which was played to us as a rough story board sequence (not stills – moving CGI footage but not highly finished). There was a pretty in depth scenario for each participant and at one stage a certain pilot was briefed to dive down on the He 111 and then pull up etc etc. All very well but the inevitable question at the end of the 20 minute discussion was “OK – but what He111?”, the simple answer from the Disney people was of course “Oh, don’t worry about that – we will put it in later”! Sums it all up really and I never ever bothered to watch the finished movie.

It (SX300) certainly is Mark – but where does the subject of the thread, SX330 come in?

As an aside, was it me or was Mr Jackson at nice little aerodrome in deepest Bedfordshire on Sunday?

Definately you.

As this piece refers to an ‘airworthy’ Lancaster in NZ you can make your own conclusions! :rolleyes: