Originally Posted by
BEagle
That item in 'Fighter Pilot' was staged for the BBC!
Bit late spotting this, apologies...and yes, ^^^ pretty much.
Story from those directly involved, or on the edge of this or had to unravel the resultant fallout was that the QFI was certainly stitched up in the editing suite....and FWIW the RAF didn't have a say in the final result.
Over the years I ended up working alongside a couple of the victims of the series... From the stories they told some on the directing/production side of the series very definitely had an agenda...