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Old 13th Dec 2008, 07:52
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@Beamish Boy - cheers, I was going to ask the same question.

As for the programme, I was not impressed, with way too much time devoted to the second world war, then after that five minutes of a Valient, and then skipping onto JP (the best part IMHO) and the Tornado. The production team succesfully managed to blot out any combat between 1945 and 1991, let alone the rather more exotic places the SH and AT fleet have been over the past 50 years or so. Added to the mish-mash of archive film, modern scenes of the RAF and bloody Blackpool pier, it really was a production mess. And what was with the bloody speaking clock every 5 minutes!?
To end, did anyone else crack up in the introduction when the narrator was rabbiting on about how we are "no longer an island" and are suspect to air attack etc. and a seagull appeared with dramatic music?!!
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