I’ll be the production archivist, noting the film serial number, code letters & any other markings (badges etc.) and the true serial number of each aircraft in every scene, and also taking photographs of all the aircraft from all angles, so that in future years people will be able to identify every aircraft in every scene, in the secure knowledge that no-one will be interested in such things thirty odd years later.

BTW some of the jokes on this thread are amaizeing.

Geoff.

Have you tried here ? http://www.battleofbritainmovie.4t.com/index.html

Geoff

From ‘lewestoday.co.uk’

Spitfire find upsets family
NATIONAL press reports that the body of a wartime pilot had been found at a crash site near Buxted have sparked compensation claims from family members and anger from the Ministry of Defence.

A full-page story in Tuesday’s Times said amateur aviation archaeologists found human remains when they dug up the wreckage of a Spitfire in fields near Howbourne Lane on Saturday.
RAF investigators arrived on site on Wednesday morning to resolve the mystery surrounding the final resting place of 20-year-old Pilot Officer William ‘Scotty’ Gordon.
Horrified nephews and nieces thought he had been buried during the war in Mortlach cemetery near his home in Dufftown, Scotland where his remaining sister, Elizabeth Gordon who died last year aged 72, had tended his grave.
But a Ministry of Defence spokeswoman said claims that Pilot Officer Gordon’s remains lay in the plane were ‘cruel and nonsensical.’
Ministry officials were furious that relatives were now claiming compensation for pain and grief caused by the uncertainty over his whereabouts.
She explained: ‘Without being indelicate, when a plane crashes you don’t find whole bodies – but we must recover a proportion of the remains in order to send a coffin home for burial.
‘Pilot Officer Gordon rests in that cemetery.’
She said the so-called recent ‘find’ consisted of a two-inch square of fabric and perhaps a miniscule amount of human bone or tissue.
‘This is not unheard of when a plane goes down in wet ground.’
Former Ghurka officer Colonel Malcolm Campbell lives at nearby Howbourne Farmhouse and explained a new landowner had given permission for the dig.
He crossed half-a-mile of fields and a stream to visit the site on Saturday.
He told the Express: ‘They dug down about 15 feet or so; all I saw was a sheet with a few pieces of tangled metal lying on it.
‘There was no sign of any human remains.’
The aviation buffs, from Hastings, were given full MoD consent to excavate the crash site; the RAF spokeswoman said: ‘In accordance with their licence they handed in what they found to a local police station.’
The Brighton coroner’s office confirmed the matter was now under the jurisdiction of colleagues in Hailsham.
William Huw Gibson Gordon was 20 when the Spitfires of 234 Squadron were attacked by Messerschmitts at 24,000 feet.
The Squadron claimed eight enemy kills. Pilot Officer Gordon was the only casualty of the day – just days before the end of the Battle of Britain.
Wing Commander Bob Doe remembers his comrade ‘Scotty.’
‘We knew each other well although we were not close friends – he was a quiet, retiring chap.’
Mr Doe, 83 – now Britain’s highest scoring living Battle of Britain pilot – remembers the battle over East Sussex in which ‘Scotty’ died.
He recalls trying to avoid the yellow-nosed Messerschmitts and concentrate on shooting down a Dornier bomber.
05 June 2003

‘The Battle of Britain, then & now’ gives the Spitfire as being X4036, but ‘Spitfire the history’ has it as X4035! Perhaps somewhere in the past, a ‘5’ has been read as a ‘6’? The date of the Spitfire crash was the 6th September 1940.

Geoff.

I’m the same as Moggy & Alex, in saving up my images until I’ve got 50 or so, & taking them into Boots.

Geoff.

Here’s my current desktop image, might make Steve turn a bit green with envy. 😀

Geoff

(photo copyright-Fraser Gray)

I don’t suppose the Hurricane could be L1669, ‘Collie’s battleship’,an early Mk I sent out pre-war to the Middle East for tropical trials? I’m not an expert but the r/t mast seems to be ‘squared off’ as in the only (?) photo of L1669, and it did have it’s armament deleted, though I’m not sure if the Hurricane in the photo has had it’s guns deleted, or they’ve been covered over as per normal to protect the guns.

The Hudson pic is ringing a bell, got the feeling I’ve seen it somewhere, or maybe it was just a similar photo I’ve seen!

Geoff.

Daz,

The article is in the post.

Geoff.

Steve,

Don’t forget to PM me the message for Ted, before Sunday.

Geoff