I recall seeing an incomplete CASA 2-111 fuselage in store at the RAFM Henlow c.1970 (natural metal finish – some cockpit glazing missing). It was said that this had been used for the cockpit & interior shots for the BoB film. I believe they used back-projection.

Does anyone know what became of it? It was all there from nose to tail if I remember but had no tail feathers.

The Buck House shot is a model (in some scenes you can see the wires coming out of the wingtips of some of the flying scale model He111 and Ju87s?

Charles Boddington acquired some of the models and I remember one Ju87 (about 3 feet long) in the collection of MAPS Coventry C.1970.

If you can pick up a copy of “Spitfire Survivors Round the World” – Riley & Trant 1986 – we pretty much mentioned all the a/c that were used in the film.

I’m well aware that these three B-17s have nothing to do with “The War Lover” but I thought it was a shame not to share them. Anyone have any further info on any of them?

All shots are early 1970s vintage:

N3509G
N17W
44-85790 – filling station canopy!

Blackburn B2, G-ACBH

Shot this in August 1975 at Dixon’s Scrapyard, Ramsden Heath, Essex. It had been there since 1947.

I heard someone was restoring it but does anybody know who or where?

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I recall seeing a photo of one of the B-17s taken at Manston. I believe it had suffered relatively minor damage (tailwheel or something) which was deemed “beyond economic repair” and I think it was subsequently scrapped on site.

Another one was “belly landed” by Capt John Crewdson(?) at Bovingdon – I think it was actually taxied at high speed and the undercarriage retracted – a trick later employed by the same pilot(?) on at least one Mosquito during the filming of “633 Squadron” a couple of years later – also at Bovingdon.

I stand corrected gentlemen … but it was a good excuse to pop in that shot of the Hurricane … a few bits from it survive in the Manston example … pity, this one had an interesting history.

Is it my memory failing/working overtime … but I seem to recall that of the two Pfalz replicas one had a plywood monocoque fuselage (Reims Aviation??) and the other was built around a Tiger Moth steel tube fuselage (Bianchi??). The monococque replica tended to suffer from excessive flexing in flight.