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Old 9th Sep 2010, 15:18
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bonajet, wasn't the film crew over to make an SSVC flight safety film? I seem to remember having seen it, complete with Loader getting some walking-on part. After a bird strike and surge, some mate nearly stoofs in because he's forgotten his rocket pin, but then the engine recovers itself or something?

A V-force chum had been asked to go and play the 'Ops Officer' and generally baby-sit the film luvvies. Amongst whom was rather a camp producer; this wasn't awfully popular in the RAF of some 20 years before Pink Wednesday....

One scene called for some Rocks to patrol a river, festooned with guns and bullets and all manner of warry stuff. It seems that the producer did actually have quite a dry sense of humour; after the Rocks had done a few takes getting progressively wetter and wetter, not to mention more and more pissed-off, he squealed "Oooh, that was ever so lovely, dears. But could you try to make it just a teensy bit more butch next time?"
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