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Old 1st Jun 2006, 04:40
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Blacksheep
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Anyone here involved with the Vulcan that was used for the James Bond flying shots?
Did the starter crew, but we were all edited out because we were too scruffy. Ernie Leatherbarrow wearing a 'Snoopy' helmet, Arsenal FC scarf and his parka beaver-tail dragging on the ground in the approved "Liney" style wouldn't have gone down well with Joe Public. No civilian would have believed we were real RAF personnel. (Most of the aircrew didn't either... )

You can see one of us waving the bomber out (might have been me - I was the last marshaller at the peri track) - but its a long distance shot and could have been anybody. The rotten film crew wouldn't even spare us a cup of tea, miserable brastads.

We had a good laugh about the hatch into the bomb bay, but the biggest laugh was the idea of opening the bomb doors with the aircraft under water to get the weapons out. In reality electrickery and water don't mix too well.
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