As far as I was aware, “Zeppelin” was not filmed in Ireland whereas “Darling Lili”, “The Blue Max” and “The Red Baron” were.

“Darling Lili” is definitely a 1970 film so it does fit into the right timeframe and the right location.

Are you trying to be deliberately provocative?

Anyway, the Allies in WW2 did not just consist of the British and the Americans.
An even stronger argument would be that it was the Russians who won the war against the Germans for the Allies.

In fact, neither is true.

Nice to see the “Daily Mail” first with the news again.

Excellent – close your eyes and you are in a Lancaster over Germany with cannon shells ripping through the fuselage OR you are a German listening to the crunch and concussions as a stick of bombs approaches.

It is actually quite scary and traumatic to listen to this tape but well worthwhile. I read the original novel many years ago and that was good too.

The Hendon Halifax was recovered way back in 1972/73. At that time, the notion of bringing virtually extinct aircraft back to life – “Jurassic Park” style – was not really considered. So, when the RAF Museuem saw how bad the Halifax’s condition was, they decided not to proceed with the original plan of a full restoartion and display it “as is”. Maybe, if being recovered today, they might have come to a different comclusion.

I saw the aftermath of that accident.

I had booked an exhaust noise test for my Caterham Seven sports car that day. A Lancia car club track day was scheduled and the pits were open so I thought it would be a good opportunity to drive down to Goodwood to ensure my exhaust did not exceed the strict noise levels that are applied at Goodwood. By chance, I happened to check the news on BBC Ceefax that morning and saw to my horror that a Spitfire had crashed at Goodwood. I immediately phoned the circuit to check whether it would still be OK to come down for my noise check. I was assured by the “office person” I spoke to that the track was still open for business. So off I went. 45 minutes later, I arrived at the track to find that it had been closed for the day. Obviously, my noise test was off. I drove around the boundary of the airfield and the sad sight of the Spitfire lying inverted on the infield at Madgwick Corner was plainly visible.

A sad day.

Well, here’s my initial list of programmes for suggested possible DVD release:

Spitfire – 1976
Colonel Culpepper’s Flying Circus – 1980
Reaching for the Skies – (Series) 1988
Bombers – 1979
Chopper – (a Horizon on the history of the helicopter )- 1983
Woomera – 1989 (A history of the Australian facility C4)
Spacesuit – 1990 (C4 – A history of high altitude pressure suits)

Some of these I taped off TV at the time and still have but it would be nice to have them in top quality DVD format).

Dave – I have that Conferderate Air Force video, although it is not of great picture quality. It was made by the BBC and was called “Colonel Culpepper’s Flying Circus”. It was shot at the 1980 “Airsho” and was narrated and introduced by Mike Wooldridge. It features quite a few famous pilots, Paul Tibbets, Adolf Galland, Bob Tuck etc and is most enjoyable. In fact, it inspired me to go to the following year’s airshow. The most famous person I met there was Ensign George Gay, the sole survivor of the Devastator squadron shot down in the Battle of Midway. He told me he had the best view of the battle, clinging to a seat cushion in the middle of the Pacific.

Wooldridge is slightly tongue in cheek about the whole thing – the funniest comment he makes is that the charicature drawings of Colonel Culpepper, rather than resembling a Colonel who might declare war on left wing, pinko liberal types or bad guys , is more like the Colonel who declared war on chickens (he has a point).

I also seem to remember Pink Floyd featured heavily on the soundtrack.