Yes. I saw it recently on DVD. Rather a good film I thought.

Found this on IMDB.com…….

The aircraft featured was a TYPE 170 Mark 11A G-AIFV designed and produced by the Bristol Aeroplane Company. Although the actual scenes were filmed at Wolverhampton, practice was carried out at Lydd Ferryfield in Kent (now London Ashford Airport). Filming was not without problems and on 15 May 1956 the aircraft overshot the runway, causing quite extensive damage to the nose and wing sections. Following repairs the aircraft returned to operations with Silver City Airways before being scrapped in May 1962.

And another vote for High Flight, the first aviation film I remember seeing at the cinema..a lost classic, I fear.

Looks like an FW190 to me. The implication in the report is that the footage was taken by the pilot during his career.

And don’t you love the classic cub TV reporter quote…”The houses behind me did not exist during the war, but if they had, and the Mustang had crashed into them, there would have been terrible loss of life”.

Priceless.

A tad before the last snap.

An excellent description of a very enjoyable day. I thought the commentary team were fantastic..extremely informative…possibly the best I’ve ever heard at Old Warden..and that goes back to 1973! I’d never realised that the lumps screwed onto the fuselage of the Hawker biplanes were ballast for an empty rear seat. See, you live and learn.

Swerve….did you? At the last minute??

Joe P, I agree. I reckon Cliff Spink’s toes were dancing on the rudder pedals during Colin’s Spitfire roll out..it looked like the beginning of a potential groundloop to me. All in all I thought it was an enjoyable programme, well filmed and the McGs were genuine in their enthusiasm.

My father tells me that the only time he recalls seeing an ATA girl was when he was based in Belfast near the Shorts factory, with his Sea Hurricane squadron, and a Stirling flew in, flown by a pilot who removed her flying helmet to reveal long blond hair…much to his surprise, naturally.

As an aside, Philip Wills, of gliding fame, was second I/C of the ATA during WW2.