I say jolly good luck to them, it sounds like they really know what they’re doing and hopefully will achieve their goal.

It would be fantastic to see such an odd bird back in the skies. I love the whole idea of recreating the feel of the old Imperial Airways days.

I’m sure if it gets airborne it will be in demand for both airshows and filmwork – I can just see Bertie Wooster boarding it in a remake, or perhaps it could be in the next Indiana Jones adventure…

Indeed it is a very interesting monument. I can see such a recovered artifact playing an important part in telling the story of the aerial battle, but I dear say if it were recovered today it’d go into a restoration hangar and roll out flyble. Amazing how technology in restoration has progressed, or perhaps people simply are willing to take the time and expense more these days to get old wrecks back to pristine condition.

I must have been walking round with ‘cloth eyes’ when I was there, because I’m sure I’d have photographed it if I’d seen it. I can’t even blame it on being in a darkened corner in those days!

Some lovely photos, thanks Geoff.

It is nice to see the Bf109G “Black 6” looking so lovely – these are the first photos I’ve seen of it since it crashed.

That Hurricane is a bit worse for ware. What’s the story with that? Mind you, it’s in about the same state as Sir Tim Wallis’s one was when he got it, and his now flies. Looks like Hendon should send it off the Hawker Restorations.

Great photos B17man. Just brilliant. 🙂

I love the one of the lineup of bombers and the C47 taken from inside the office, looking out the window. It reminds me of the classic magazine advert for bourbon (Southern Comfort?) of the same scenario with a silver B17 outside and the bottle on the desk.

What is the story behind all those large scale models on the scaffolding? Was that used for the mass taxi shots? I’m trying to place them in relation to the film. I wonder what became of the models.

Cheers
Dave

Yep, that full sized mock-up they used for the interiors is at Warner Bros Movie World on the Gold Coast in Oz. Every Warner Bros video and DVD you hire here in NZ has an advert for this themepark, and it gives the impression that re-enactors do a show for the public with pyros and the works. Is this really the case? I have often wondered. Is it a daily or regular show, like those cowboy shoot outs and gangtser shows those film parks have?

Fantastic photos by the way. 15 years? Amazing. One amazing thing, most of the actors still look pretty much the same these days. They, like the film, don’t seem to have aged that much.

The red-white-blue roundel, and also the red-blue roundel, are not just the roundel of the RAF, they are the roundel of the British Empire – something as redundant as their idea.

🙂 Very amusing, but I doubt that Iran or North Korea would be stupid enough to waste £1,116,200.00 on such a clapped out hunk of scrap metal. Mr Bond can sleep easy in his bed.