More gliders, and two films…The Thomas Crown Affair (1968), and the remake in 1999.

In the original, Steve McQueen carries out aerobatics in a Schweizer SGS 1-23H N9860E to a background of “Windmills of your Mind” sung by Noel Harrison……although he didn’t fly the glider.

The glider which features in the 1999 remake is a DuoDiscus flown by Tom Knauff…and believe me it’s not possible to lean over from the back seat to the controls in the front in the real thing!

I thought it might be the Mustang. And the Grumman G-36…was that the Martlet?
Google is my friend…yes,the Martlet.

Ah, Argus..I think my father was on the Argus with a Sea Hurricane Sqdn..he was certainly on HMS Dasher with Sea Hurris, fortunately disembarking before it exploded in the Clyde.

My father tells a story of a Taranto Night mess dinner he attended during his FAA days where a model Swordfish was suspended from a long wire above the dining table and at an appropriate moment, slid down the wire and dropped a torpedo. Those were the days…pre PC!

The last colour picture of the 109 trailing the Spitfire is reproduced as a double page spread on the title page of “The Most Dangerous Enemy” by Stephen Bungay…with the reversed fin flash.
Great thread, where would we be without Google Earth.

The F86 is SUCH a photogenic aircraft..no bad angles, like a Spitfire.
Anyone know the rear seat weight limits for a T9?

What has recently happened to Northolt is very regrettable. I always used to have a pang of nostalgia when passing it..the BoB hangars, the guard room entrance, and the brick buildings could transport one back 70 years with a bit of imagination…in the last year or so, it has turned into something resembling an out-of-town industrial area/shopping complex.

My only consolation is that every day, I can look at the country mansion into which the Northolt Operations room was dispersed to during the Battle. In those days it was in extensive grounds and when I dug my garden over I found an old RAF cap badge. The house was also requisitioned by the Americans as part of D-Day planning. Interesting past….