Geeky Dornier Do17 question regarding Foyle's War (series III)

[Onan the Clumsy]

An excellent series btw and interesting to see a 1940's car ford a stream that I'm sure would engulf my Passat...not that I drive a German car with the war on an' all.


Anyway, last night was the one with the Dornier that was shot down while carrying a special radar. There was a shot of some smoking wreckage in a field that looked surprisingly realistic, though it was only on screen for a sec and I didn't tape it.

So my question was...was that real wreckage?

They seem to have gone to great lengths to get cars, busses, clothing etc right and at one point wrecked Dorniers must have been fairly plentiful, though you'd think they'd eventually get melted down or just binned. Still, maybe someone had some lying around somewhere..

I warned you it was a geeky question.

[Onan the Clumsy]

Maybe it was from an Ercoupe :p

[treadigraph]

Aces High used to have parts of a Heinkel 111 (well, a CASA 2111 to be Ann O'Raccurate) that made regular appearances in films and the like... A possibility Onan?

Usually watch Foyles in the UK (kinda like that Honeysuckle Weeks girl!) but don't recall that episode.

Chizz

treadders

[cringe]

Episode: They Fought In The Fields (http://www.foyleswar.com/episodes/303/303summ.htm)

Martyn John, Production Designer:
This time we needed a Dornier to crash and that was made up from bits of the crashed Spitfire from Enemy Fire (http://www.foyleswar.com/episodes/302/302summ.htm), so that saw another life. http://www.foyleswar.com/episodes/303/303bts.htm

[Centaurus]

Was the Dornier 17 called The Flying Pencil? Or was that the Dornier 215?

[Onan the Clumsy]

Was the Dornier 17 called The Flying Pencil? Or was that the Dornier 215? Maybe it was the Hampden. You know, the one with the blisters in the cockpit window, to accomodate the pilot's moustache.

If it was the Dornier, wouldn't it be ze luftflugepencilhausenmitsweimotoren or something? :}

treadigraph it was like the ending of a couple of French films, there were
definately two fins.

cringe right ho. That sounds like it. I should have looked harder. Will follow link now.

treadigraph Re Miss Weeks ...phwooooar! :ok: (though I have to admit it's partly the uniform and the sensible shoes)


...if I might be allowed a little hijack here (http://www.honeysuckleweeks.co.uk/)



I still don't see a spitfire though:

http://www.foyleswar.com/episodes/303/images/303017.jpg

http://www.foyleswar.com/episodes/303/images/303018.jpg

[treadigraph]

Re Miss Weeks ...phwooooar! (though I have to admit it's partly the uniform and the sensible shoes)

Quite, she should have been Matron at my school! :ok:

It's regrettable that I can remember the matron we did have (:yuk: ), but not the aircraft in the Dornier crash sequence (I did see the programme...) Such is the advent of senility I suppose...

Edited to say, got carried away with Miss Weeks - yep, that does look like quite genuine wreckage to me. One that was dug up from somwhere perhaps?

[Algernon Lacey]

An excellent series.
That second photo looks a little like the rear end of a Messerschmitt 110, could it be the one that was briefly shown in the opening sequence for one of the previous episodes of Monarch of the Glen which crashed into the Loch?
The aeroplane not the episode that is!!:) :)

[RJM]

Do17 was definitely 'The Flying Pencil'. I made a model of one when I was at school (along with the obligatory Airfix Lanc and Spitfire).

It was originally a transport a/c and the name was probably more apt before the front end of the plane was redesigned.

BTW, I can only agree that Ms Honeysuckle Weeks is a charmer.

[Gouabafla]

Went off Sam (Honeysuckle Weeks) when she turned up as a murderer in Midsomer Murders.

[Doodlebug]

Onan,

That a bit of flattened-farmer or Dornier-driver protruding from underneath the spare parts?

Bug