Well here's the Hollywood pitch:
PpruNe pensioners crowd-source a replica SR-71 from souvenir paper-weight components, a junk airframe and lashings of old-timer Skunk Works / Concorde physics. Having learned that a craven State Department is delaying vital surveillance of a rogue state nuclear programme, Gums battles his demons to eventually dust off his G-Suit for One Last Mission, sanctioned only by PPruNe, and to finally fly this historic marvel. Suspense builds, because the audience know that PpruNe thread-lurkers from Iran have just completed a YF-12 based on the same data.
Gums gets the crucial recon. pictures but, unarmed of course, finds the YF-12 on his tail. Just when all seems lost he gambles on the expertise of his PpruNe pals, and pulls a manoeuvre just beyond the stated structural limits of the airframe. The YF-12 has to pull the same manoeuvre to achieve missile-lock, and comes apart. Credits roll over a PpruNe guard of honour at the culmination of Gum's Presidential ticker tape parade.
In flashback, the young CliveL will be played by Simon Pegg, based on his performance as Scotty in the Star Trek reboot...
Last edited by robdean; 23rd Feb 2013 at 12:10.