There have of course been a lot of terrible remakes (just as there are lots of terrible original films), but there are absolutely loads of successful remakes Charlie. Whether you mean successful as in they were liked by the critics, made lots of money and appealled to a wide audience, or whether you mean they appealed simply to your own personal taste alone I do not know. But on the first criteria of being good money spinners, popular and well received then how about these pretty successful examples?
– Cape Fear
– War of the Worlds (Spielberg’s version)
– Star Trek
– Ocean’s Eleven
– Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
– Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (a remake of the 1954 film Bedtime Story)
– 12 Monkeys
– Always (a remake of A Guy Named Joe)
– King Kong (Sir Peter Jackson’s version)
– The Hobbit
– Scarface
– The Fly
– Casino Royale
– Ransom
– The Thomas Crowne Affair
– 3.10 To Yuma
– Dawn of the Dead
– The Manchurian Candidate
– The Ring
– Father of the Bride
– The Man Who Knew Too Much
– The Magnificent Seven
– From Hell (a remake of the equally good Jack The Ripper)
– Sherlock Holmes (both the current Hollywood series and the UK TV series with Cumberbatch are far better than most prior attempts)

I really could go on and on but I don’t see the point as you’ll probably disagree that any of these were as successful as their originals from the 1920’s – 1950’s or so.

Ah yes Dave, but none of these are AVIATION films! Non-aviation films work best for CGI as they do not have to recreate aircraft accurately that us enthusiasts have to accept as ‘real’.
Any remakes of aviation films seldom have the original aircraft available in quantity.When the original Dambusters film was made, they had three airworthy Lancasters, “633 Squadron” had three airworthy Mosquitos and several taxiable. “The Battle oF Britain” film had loads of Hispano Buchons and CASA 2.111s. Now a mere 2-3 Buchons could be mustered and not a single CASA 2.111 is airworthy. I would hate for all these to be recreated using CGI. I thought “Pearl Harbor” was dire, because they couldn’t recreate “Tora,Tora,Tora” or couldn’t be bothered to convert a load of T-6s and Vultee Valiants to represent all those Japanese fighters, which were far more realistic that just employing a CGI artist to ‘draw’ them! I will reserve judgement on this “Dambusters” remake until it is released.

Thanks for the advice but I gave up driving when abroad. I found that it spoilt the holiday. Thats why i am attempting to pre-plan using local transport.

Robert

I stayed at Cascais on the Lisbon coast a few years ago and got to Sintra easily by local bus, which took about an hour or so. There are plenty of local buses that go there (check Portugal bus routes and timetables).
On arrival at the town centre, I then got a local taxi which only took about 10-15 minutes and the taxi driver was very helpful in his broken English. The Sintra collection is only open by PPO but the guard room called the duty Sergeant who escorted us around the collection. Even got access on to the ramp to shoot the PAF Cessna 337s and Aviocars. When I finished, the guard room called the taxi back and I reversed the journey.

What constitutes a safe and unstrippable copyright notice?

Possibly a ‘watermark’ on anything posted on the ‘net, that would be too difficult to remove for anyone to make any commercial use of it. I have posted many photos on various forums and have had occasions where they have been ‘commercially abused’ by some people who think they can download them and sell prints of them, or publish them. Apart from a watermark, only uploading pics in very low resolution will help solve this issue, rendering them useless for any commercial use, but still okay for viewing on the ‘net.

Re Dragon G-ACET

These appear to be the only period photos of G-ACET around in this livery, which I’m sure you have already on file. Scheme appears to be exactly the same as on Fox Moth G-ACEJ with a ‘wedge shaped’ cheatline in the same shade of blue as the nose badge. Alas, I don’t know how this cheatline finishes aft of the wing. I believe G-ACET was later transferred to Highland Airways, so you could also copy G-ACIT in the Science Museum store at Wroughton, if you fancied that livery with green trim?
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I think that they were taken in or around 1953 and it looks as though some sort of event was taking place, because there are obviously some aircraft on static display. [/IMG]

October 1953 was the year of the England-New Zealand Air Race which started from London Airport involving BEA Viscount G-AMAV,RAF and RAAF Canberras, RNZAF Hastings, KLM DC-6 etc., so this may have been the event.

The couple of urinals still standing at Grafton Underwood. A rare chance to pee in the footsteps of heroes. (so to speak)

Moggy

A bog-standard find though Moggy!!:rolleyes:

Thank you for that, I have seen these photos. I want to get the scheme the same as it was, have been painting silver all day….;)

Interesting! Is this for a model or for the restoration of the real thing?