Plenty of West London Aero Club there (White Waltham ) !

If there is time for a re-edit, all is not lost but they MUST ditch the crappy video game graphics in some of the shots which trash the credibility of the project and will take it to wherever Red Tails ended up.

The budget was not lavish , and so they need to make a little go a long way, and actually most of those sequences look do pretty good. The blocky font of the graphics seems inappropriate, and reminds me of the Rocky films. They need something more elegant and period.

The recent non-CGI ‘Dunkirk’ has set the bar pretty high, but even they used models, and very effective they were too. I hope there is still time to do a bit more work on ‘Hurricane’ , because I think it has potential.

It’s a WW2 era (virtually) aeroplane in great condition. It seems just nuts to be talking about scrapping it.

B-17 Blackbushe (Peter 707)
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Congratulations on such an impressive and safe career. I wonder if you also were involved in recreational flying.

I am reminded of the old saying along the lines of – a superior pilot uses his superior judgement to avoid situations where he might be required to use his superior skills !

My understanding is that that Spitfiresrule is at the very earliest stage of his/her flying career, but clearly harbours high ambitions !

It seems best to put forward the most relevant advice/overview to a sincere question , regardless of individual circumstances.

I don’t believe payment is forthcoming. The privilege of being invited is reward enough. Appearance fees would go to the operator to offset costs.

You do not apply, but wait for the invitation, which will involve being known as a safe pair of hands, having a good attitude, with a sound track record of tailwheel vintage types. Chipmunk or Stearman , then Harvard is a well trodden route, and probably in excess of 1,000 hours preferred.

Display experience will be a great help. Dave Puleston flies in a Pitts display team with Richard Grace, which led to him flying the Grace Spit, and then the Seafire.

New pilots are needed to replace those retiring, and as the military no longer provide many people, civilians with a suitable background will be used. As they say in the lottery ‘ It could be you ‘ .

That’s right, but nobody really wants a two-seat Spit anyway. Quite the ugly duckling………………

Fast forward 50 years, and they can’t make them quick enough!

That some would be about £65,000 today, so certainly cheap.

Compared to other assets like property, your £4000 1964 house could well be in excess of £700,000 now, so the Spit still looks like a sound investment, though in 53 years ( if it has been a flyer ) it will have eaten a HUGE amount of money, and you cannot live in it !

Not many private individuals have stashed away a Spitfire for 45 years, infact apart from Connie Edwards I can think of no other.