Just to flag up that the first part of my two part feature on the Mitchell ferry flight and the filming of Hanover Street is now available in the July issue of Aeroplane. I never did satisfactorily resolve the issue of an aircraft accompanying B-25 Always Dangerous on the northern route to the UK.

On page 91 of Aviation in Birmingham by Geoffrey Negus and Tommy Staddon, a picture taken in 1961 shows the reconstruction work on the control tower has begun.

Great, as I don’t do Facebook myself. The Mitchell landed on 16th May 1978 at Luton. There are no movements for Luton at this time in either Air Pictorial or Air Britain….

Stangman – Thanks. Yes I have that book but there is no actual evidence that N9990Q was a camera ship. There were some air-to-air sequences trialed near Little Rissington on 31st May 1978 but this was using Aztec G-BJDH which had a camera slung under the belly. Incidentally, the film Hanover Street had no air-to-air sequences, everything being shot from the ground.