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XN593
A heads up for the film High Flight on Talking Pictures tonight, 13th October at 17:15
A brief extract from Wikipedia says:-
The film was made at various RAF airfields including Cranwell and Leuchars and released in 1957.
A group of flight cadets arrive at RAF Cranwell to begin a three-year training course to become RAF pilots...The use of RAF Percival Provost piston and De Havilland Vampire T.11 jet training aircraft and operational Hawker Hunter fighter aircraft heightened the authenticity of the film.......One Hunter was converted into a "
PR" camera platform, specially modified at great cost, to carry a forward-facing Cinemascope camera. A screen was drawn on the front windscreen of the camera Hunter with a Chinagraph crayon. The pilot was instructed to fill the windscreen with aircraft.
It is on Freeview 81, Freesat 306 and Sky 328
Watch out for the landing at the end - it starts over the N German plains and ends at Nicosia airport with my dad ( Happy 92nd birthday today Dad) as part of the rescue team. I spent many happy hours sitting in that “blood wagon” reading a huge stack of American comics.
Last edited by radar101; 13th Oct 2018 at 15:05.
Reason: Bad englisg