In the credits for this film was The Skyfame Collection. I see this name quite often but know nothing about it. Is it the aircraft that went to Duxford when it first opened ? Could somebody please enlighten me.

The Skyfame Collection was founded by Peter and Gwladys Thomas at Staverton in Gloucestershire in the early 60’s. Finally closed around 1978, initally the majority of the aircraft were on loan to the IWM but I believe that they are now all owned by the IWM.

Aircraft included.

Tempest II
2 Mosquito’s
Avro Anson
Airspeed Oxford
Fairey Firefly
Saro A1
Cierva C30
DH Sea Venom
Proctor
Miles Hawk
HP Hastings
Vampire
Auster AOP9
Short Sherpa
Flying Flea

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The B25 N9089Z was obtained by Crewdson of Film Aviation services for the production. The B25 came to be known as ‘Moviemaker II’.

When I was researching an article for Warbirds Worldwide on the film I could not find a photos of the B25 in its Film Aviation Services markings, despite obtaining many B17 photos.

At the time Crewdson operated a Scottish Aviation Pioneer G-AODZ this was finished in a Silver and White scheme, I would guess the Mitchell would have had a similar livery. From memory the Mitchell eventually appeared in 633 squadron in a white and civil scheme.

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[QUOTE=Will J]Cheers Septic, do you mind if I copy a couple of them, some are carbon copies of the ones of mine that went AWOL :rolleyes:

No problem Will, If you need anything in particular let me know.

Septic

A few more.

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Sorry to hear you lost a some of your photos Will, here’s a few I took on Monday.

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I for one hope the rumours are false, despite wanting to see a P38 fly again in Europe, I feel that ‘White Lightnin’ is not just another P38, as a racer and display aircraft ‘White Lightnin’ is a piece of aircraft preservation heritage and should be kept in its civillian scheme.

The possible decision to sell the aircraft must have come as a last resort to the family. When I spoke to Lefty a year ago, he was adamant the aircraft would fly again. Both Lefty and his son Ladd had initiated a fund raising campaign to help cover the rebuild costs. Only two months ago I was having discussions with the White Lightnin team about a possible feature to highlight and hopefully help the project along.

I don’t know when the magazine in questions print deadline was, but given that Red Bull have now purchased the Jaguar Formula One team would they have the funding to continue with its historic aircraft fleet, could they afford two ‘bottom less pits’.

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