Originally Posted by
Alan Baker
No, it was the six engined Avro Ashton testbed. Previous posts have mentioned the DVD, the film was made in an unspecified anamorphic format, i.e. 2.35:1 aspect ratio like CinemaScope. The dvd is 4x3 except for the opening credits, so much of the image is missing.
This is probably thread drift, but I'd never heard of this beast before (despite having been an air-struck schoolboy at the relevant time); so perhaps others would like to see a picture.
From Wikimedia Commons:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...shton_Mk_3.jpg