Hmm, that Paul Haggis chap isn’t mentioned at all on IMDb’s page for the film. They’ve either changed scriptwriters or he’s making it all up…

More from teletext:

“Plane crashes after buzzing city
A light plane that had been threatening to crash into Auckland’s Sky Tower has crashed into the water off St Helier’s Beach.

The plane, which earlier flew over the central city, had been stolen from Ardmoe Airport.

The police helicopter has been following the plane after the pilot made unspecified threats.

The crash was close to National Party leader Don Brash’s house.”

Thanks, all news to me. So, which books are around on these squadrons and their Pacific activiities?

Thanks Galdri. That is what I was thinking. I guess he just thought it was a good example to demonstrate the power they could generate.

I remember another of those facts was the searchlamp that hangs off the Orion was, from memory, around 100,000 candle power, and if you were looking at it when it switched on, you’d go blind.

On the subject of engines powering things, I remember seeing a small documentary in the UK Today series showing how the gas system worked in London. Jet engines as used in aircraft are used to blow the gas down the lines to your houses.