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September 29, 2004 at 8:33 am in reply to: Alternative Battle of Britain Film Quotes #1422893

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Well done Guzzineil – that’s priceless! 😀 😀

September 28, 2004 at 9:32 pm in reply to: The next Replica / Reproduction? #1423682

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The way I understand it, Glyn Powell intends to create several flyable Mosquito fuselages from his mould, so these will form the basis of many interesting rebuilds I hope. Technically they won’t be classed as replicas I don’t think, but restorations, becuse much original componetary will be used.

I thought the Grumman F3F’s were already flying. There’s one on my calendar at home in flight, and the write up says three were rebuilt from wrecks found in Hawaii, with a fourth one, a replica, also constructed. Are some still being built???

I’d love to see the following replicated to flying status:

Boulton Paul Defiant
Me110
Stuka
Ju88
Vickers Wellington
Short Stirling
DH86 Express
Vickers Vincent
and much more…

September 28, 2004 at 8:58 pm in reply to: Vintage aircraft in FL, Hurricane Jeanne #1423825

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Thanks for the update on the Fantasy of Flight museum, China Clipper. Glad to hear they have survived another onslaught.

September 28, 2004 at 2:43 pm in reply to: Eagle Squadron #1424508

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Just looking round the net I found a bit of info on the film. One page said it was 149 minutes, as opposed to 108 mins on others. I guess there’s a version with much more combat in.

I see Robert Stack also later starred in a film called Fighter Squadron.

What made me laugh is one of the producers of Eagle Squadron is called Wanger!

September 28, 2004 at 2:23 pm in reply to: Eagle Squadron #1424636

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I was basing the location on the IMDb site, which says it was California. The cast are all Americans I think. And also on the write-up which says:

“To assure authentic shots of the “Battle of Britain” Universal sent several cameramen to England to make sequence shots of the real Eagle Squadron fighters in actual combat. They brought back 15,000 feet of film of real war in the air over Britain, approved by the British Ministry of Information.”

I take that to mean the main production was in the USA. Imagine if they’d made the film in colour – that would have been awesome. I’ll bet it isn’t though. I wonder if they attached cameras directly to the fighters?

Often I’ve seen photos and profiles of Spitfires and Mosquitoes with US reoundels, often in PRU blue. Are these ex-Eagle Squadrons or unrelated. I just wondered if they took their planes when they switched to the USAAF.

September 28, 2004 at 2:07 pm in reply to: Eagle Squadron #1424663

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Yep that’s the film Daz.

I never realised the Eagle Sqns used Spitfires, I always associate them with Hurricanes… so, did they take Spitfires to the USA then, or use mock ups?

September 28, 2004 at 1:43 pm in reply to: "Hello Rabbit Leader…" #1424817

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“It’s Air Vice Marshall Park Sir”
“That’s all we need!”

September 28, 2004 at 1:38 pm in reply to: "Hello Rabbit Leader…" #1424843

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“We don’t need a big wing, or a small wing. What we need is more pilots…. and a miracle” (Olivier’s finest hour)

“It’s unforgivable… I lost me temper”

September 28, 2004 at 1:36 pm in reply to: "Hello Rabbit Leader…" #1424963

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“It’s a squadron scramble Sir!”
“Don’t be wet”

September 28, 2004 at 1:35 pm in reply to: "Hello Rabbit Leader…" #1424967

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“Now that should never have blasted well happened.”

September 28, 2004 at 12:15 pm in reply to: "Hello Rabbit Leader…" #1425394

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“Don’t you yell at me Mr Warwick”

A yes, sorry, I was paraphrasing a bit in reply to Geoff’s language. 🙂

The best bit is Michael Bates’ indifferent reaction. He was a master actor. On the DVD with the other soundtrack, the scene has far less impact. Music maketh the film. Why was there another soundtrack scroed by the way? Was the Walton one first and considered not good enough?

September 28, 2004 at 11:58 am in reply to: "Hello Rabbit Leader…" #1425548

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DON’T YOU SPEAK TO ME LIKE THAT MISTER WARWICK!!!

September 28, 2004 at 11:52 am in reply to: Korean War Spitfires #1425558

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Yes, I liked the yellow markings too.

As for the stripes – the aircraft was with No. 80 Sqn in the defence of Hong Kong during the Communist uprising and takeover in China, so I wonder if the markings stem from that emergency?

September 28, 2004 at 11:20 am in reply to: Korean War Spitfires #1425604

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No help on the thinner stripes, sorry Daz – I have wondered the same thing in the past – but here’s a scan from the Warpaint book on Seafires, which shows what the Seafire’s stripes were like in Korea – just like those of the Sea Fury, and the D Day ones.

Also here’s a few links with snippets relates to the Mk 24 you might enjoy:

http://www.centuryjet.com/webstore/category.cfm?Category=25

http://www.ipmsstockholm.org/magazine/1997/05/stuff_eng_detail_spit24.htm

http://www.aircraftresourcecenter.com/Gal2/1401-1500/Gal1480_Spitfire_Ulgur/gal1480.htm

September 27, 2004 at 11:54 pm in reply to: Ford Tri-motor crash today??? #1426021

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For goodness sake, I made no jokey comments about the accident. I am of course concerned for and sorry for the occupants and for the aircraft’s owner/s and engineers who will now be getting a grilling since it was just off major maintenance. I made no slur on that situation. I don’t know if you are involved with this outfit, but I think you read far too much into my comments Consul.

I merely expressed an opinion about the aircraft type based on looking at the link supplied by Stieglitz. I had never heard of this obscure type before, and I was not joking, it’s ugly.

Sorry if these simple comments offended anyone.
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