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Old 13th Nov 2014, 08:39
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Tim Mills


Your flying from the back seat with a cameraman in the front reminds me of that rubbish film "High Flight" the second unit of which joined us at Nicosia to take "action" shots of Hunters. Somebody had the bright idea that the cockpit view of approach and landing would be great so Mr Pavey, the shortish but rotund cameraman was strapped into the front seat of a Meteor 7. A piece of wood was then placed across the cockpit and his large camera was balanced on this pointing through the front windscreen. I then leaned in, started the engines, strapped myself in the rear seat, closed the hood and off we went for several circuits and rollers. If suitable pictures eventually resulted I know not, but they certainly didn't appear in the cinema version.
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