The fuselage and some bits are indeed on display in the IWM Lambeth next to the Lancaster and Halifax (if it’s still there, it was 1997). But my point was this can’t have been one of the four imported for museum display, can it? It was crashed in Scotland during the Home Guard’s finest hour, the capture of Hess.

Cheers Mark.

Are they still around today? And were they active on either Uxbridge or Kenley at the time or sourced just for the film?

And, er, which new US magazine? We don’t seem to get any American aircraft magazines here in NZ any more. (or very, very few perhaps in specialist magazine shops maybe)

For anyone interested, I have just found this page with three excellent downloads of BBC recordings made on raids over Germany in RAF bombers

http://www.stelzriede.com/ms/html/sub/mshwlnak.htm

Here’s some interesting statistics of the costs of these dummies! Taken from War Economy, which is one of the Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War books. That states that (and this is a lot of money in those days for a small struggling country as far as defence went!!)

In 1941 NZ spent £30,000 on dummy aircraft. In 1942 NZ spent £108,000 on dummy aircraft. And in 1943 NZ spent a further £7,000 on dummy aicraft. A total of £145,000. That would equate to millions of dollars in today’s money

So they must have been considered worth the money.