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Terry McCassey
7th Jan 2021, 08:01
This still is from a much aired clip of a " Battle of Britain " shootdown. Unable to find a link to the video clip but it's been around for many years. Any idea what type it is - beats me, the apparent location of the horizontal stabiliser I cannot reconcile. Any ideas to put me out of my misery much appreciated ? Cheers
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By George
7th Jan 2021, 08:12
Looks like an Arado 96 used as a trainer by our German cousins in WW2.
Terry McCassey
7th Jan 2021, 08:26
Looks like you've nailed it George. Exactly what it was doing in theatre during the B of B is anyone's guess - cheers n keep safe
Fareastdriver
7th Jan 2021, 08:59
Exercise 16: Combat Experience.
sycamore
7th Jan 2021, 11:06
FHT...Failed Fritz....
Haraka
7th Jan 2021, 15:59
I looked at this in the IWM years ago. An AR 96 from later in the war. I was looking for alleged "He 113" imagery at the time.
Why do most films of the BoB seem to include FW 190s being shot down and a mass flypast of Miles Master I filling in for a scrambling fighter squadron? Is it laziness or ignorance on the part of the film makers?
meleagertoo
8th Jan 2021, 13:28
Probably because the producers themselves were so overawed and confused by the baffling and esoteric new world of aviation that they thought everyone else was too, and as one aeroplane looked just like another no one would ever notice.
It would be the same if I made a film about mopeds or (c)rap music.
Doctor Cruces
17th Jan 2021, 10:16
Why do most films of the BoB seem to include FW 190s being shot down and a mass flypast of Miles Master I filling in for a scrambling fighter squadron? Is it laziness or ignorance on the part of the film makers?
Both I think. Fed up of seeing Liberators posing as Lancasters (film maker thinks four engines, two tails: close enough) and the various other outright laughable gaffes that they make. Makes me wonder what else they get completely wrong on progs I'm watching to actually learn something!
VX275
17th Jan 2021, 14:42
Talking of Lancasters, have you noticed these film makers can't count. There are a surprising number of Lancasters with only two engines and three fins.
sablatnic
18th Jan 2021, 08:47
Talking of Lancasters, have you noticed these film makers can't count. There are a surprising number of Lancasters with only two engines and three fins.
Manchesters?
zetec2
18th Jan 2021, 09:11
Just watched film about the Amiens raid, lots of Mosquito's but on the run in to the raid, Havocs, guess as previous if it has two engines etc it will do, where do they get the researchers from ?????