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Old 12th Apr 2012, 14:42
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High Flight Movie

Come accross this film on ebay for £2.99 called High Flight made in 1957 starring Ray Milland as a RAF Wg Cdr training young RAF Cadets to fly and become operational on the new Hawker Hunter.

Bit of a film of its time but some great flying shots and a bit of typical RAF drama. Released by Columbia and never really shown on UK TV but in B/W on US TV, but the copy I got was in colour.

Filmed on location at RAF Cramwell and RAF Leuchars standing in for an RAF Germany station.

over 40 mins of Flying shots which is quite a lot for a film, aircraft featured are Percival Provost, Vampire T11 and the Hunters of 43 Sqn.

link for more info

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Flight_(film)

Also at the same time got hold of Captains of the Clouds made in 1942 starring James Cagney as a RCAF Fg Off instructor, again in colour and lots of great shots of Training Aircraft in Canada, Yale's, Harvards, Ansons, Oxfords, DH 82 (Tiger Moths with Canopy) Battles and Hudsons.

Captains of the Clouds - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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