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Sadly, every time Hendon goes upmarket it loses a little character, the atmosphere created by the security guards recreating Nazi Germany in there doesn't help!
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We pause the telly when eurofighters fly over as we are on the approach to the ranges they have on the Wash.. no point in trying to listen to anything through that..
£4800.00 for 55 mins. They are a fabulous operation, a truly lovely bunch of guys.
Riddley Scott has just signed on to make a new Battle of Britain film .. CGI will no doubt be used.
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I'm intrigued by what Ridley Scott will come up with. I very much hope they will use as many real aircraft as possible, as although there's no reason that CGI couldn't do convincing aerial combat, nothing I've seen so far has impressed me.
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It is interesting to read how the combat scenes were filmed, the planning was meticulous because you can't ask a spitfire flying at 200mph to wait over there while you fix something, everything is constantly moving very fast.
It was once owned by my former boss, Richard Parker, who floated DA Thomas who then became Thomas Laidlaw, Architectural Ironmongers.
Richard set a mate of mine up in business years ago and I go back a long way with him
Around 2000, he was jailed for drug offences- at the time I was working for my 'mate' above and it was bedlam.
Richard sold the spitfire to a friend of his c. 94. He told the bloke who bought it he'd kill himself in it (Spitties are very hard to fly and prone to stalling at low speeds due to the wing tip elipse). He was spot on- the bloke did kill himself in it.
I think he's out of jail now. Not sure - been trying to google it.
Richard is mentioned in this bio of the plane, but his incarceration isn't.
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Anyway you may enjoy seeing it so thought I'd link ya!
Roughly 110 remaining. And they still find them in various forests and jungles.
There were about 35,000 109's produced (compare that with a 737- 12,000 produced or on forward order over 40 yrs) versus 14,000 Hurricanes and 20,000 Spitfires (54 remaining).
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If my memory serves me correctly, the Italian, Romanian, Croatian, Hungarian and Bulgarian air forces also used the '109. It was the most produced fighter aircraft in history.
IIRC, only the soviet Il-2 Sturmovik ground attack aircraft was built in greater numbers.
The '109s and He 111s used in the BoB film were Spanish built examples (Hispano HA-1112 Buchon and CASA 2-111) and had RR Merlin engines, which is why they look a bit strange. The DB 600 series engines of the originals were inverted, so the thrust line was lower. That's why the original '109 had a pronounced slope to the nose. The majority of flying 109s are actually the Spanish Buchons.
Wikipedia lists a total of 238 remaining Spitfires, of which 54 are airworthy, 71 are static exhibits and the remaining 113 being either under restoration or stored.
An interesting fact about the elliptical wing of the Spitfire is that it would stall at different places. As the airspeed slowed, it would begin to stall at the wing root first. This would exhibit itself as buffeting, alerting the pilot to the situation. It also meant that the ailerons were still effective. The stall moved outwards towards the wingtips as the airspeed slowed. Pilot Mark Hanna (who was sadly killed whilst flying a Buchon) was quoted as saying that you'd have to be crass to get a Spitfire into a stall, after all the warning it gave you.
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My dad was in the RAF during the war and at the end they just trashed all these Spitfires that nobody wanted. Sad.
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