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A great pity he's really gone. He was the living contradiction of "there are no old, bold pilots"
"Flight of the Mew Gull" has to be one of the most impressive aviation books ever
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Mew Gull The movie
Hello to all of you. I am not a pilot and I really ought to be getting down to my work. However I was looking for recent postings about Alex when I discovered your bulletin board. I sincerely hope that you will all excuse my landlubberdness (there's a new word..only a couple of hundred behind Shakespeare
) and allow me to share some information with you, which I hope will gladden the hearts of all of you as we come to terms with the passing of a Fine Fine Englishman.
I was with Alex for lunch on Wednesday last week. That meeting was to be the last in a number of meetings, the memory of each one I shall treasure for all my days.
Before I continue, let me first of all give you the news. Those of you who have suggested that there ought to be a film, will be delighted to know that "THE FLIGHT OF THE MEW GULL" THE MOVIE. Is now in the pre production financing and planning stages. What follows is how this has come about. For those of you who are interested, please read on and I would love to hear from you all.
For some time I have been working towards a major television project. The story of Birmingham's amazing wartime effort is one that is largely unknown outside of the City. As Alex tells those of you unfamiliar with our City's past, due to a D notice imposed on the City. Like a lot of Baby boomers I grew up with the war being spoon fed to us along the lines of "What we did for you lot!". To most of us as small children in the '50s, it was a world utterly remote from our own and as such all but a few of us learned the lessons we ought to about the darkest period in our country's long and glorious history. My research at first for personal instruction, blossomed to outrage when I discovered the size of the (as I said) unknown destruction rained on my City by Goering and co, yet they still carried on collared to it ( as Carl Chinn a local prof of history points out) and turned out everything that was needed for the front line and the home front.
My research began to form as an idea for a dramatised documentary and then into a full blown drama series. These are important lessons for all of us in these reckless careless and self centred times we live in. Books will be read by those closely interested in a particular topic. Docu dramas collect more than books, but a full on drama works best as an instructional tool, because it entertains. I thus conceived the idea of A MIDLANDS TOWN. This is to be a 6 part television drama series on not just Birmingham(though largely so) but the entire country's Home front experience. It is being planned to have many of the visual and visceral effects of "Band of Brothers", "Saving private Ryan" and "Enemy at the gate". I want the series when it eventually reaches the production stages to be as powerful a document as all of those films. The concept born then, I as a jobbing a ctor had to set about realising my goal.
The nucleus of "A MIDLANDS TOWN" is tThe Castle Bromwich Aeroplane Factory. I have chosen this as the central focus from which a wide range of stories can be told, for several reasons. Firstly, it is one of the few buildings left from the period, that weren't either destroyed by The Luftwaffe or Our vandalistic 60s planners. Secondly, because both I, My father ( ex Lord Mayor of Brum Ken Barton) and my uncle Roland all worked there, at Fishers as it is known locally even now. Thirdly,because of that small area of Birmingham 24, that will forever be linked with that most potent icon of freedom, THE SPITFIRE.
I became a sponge soaking up whatever I could. In answer to an earlier question. Daniel Scott-Davies, Alex curator at the Hendon museum, is happy to accomodate visitors by prior appointment. I spent an enthralling time with Alex log books notes and mementos and an utterly awe struck time standing in front of the three trophy cabinets chock full of his trophys ( with more to come). I knew that I had to meet this man. I wrote to him via Daniel and thought " That's the last I'll hear of that". I could not have been more wrong however. He wrote two days later to say that he was so very pleased that someone in my profession was at last taking an interest in the plight of the people of Birmingham at war. He invited me for lunch and that was the start of an all too brief but highly productive friendship. Despite knowing him for such a short time ( about a year) the effect that he has had on me has been one of complete transformation.
At our first meeting Alex presented me with a signed copy of Mew Gull with no more than the observation " I think you'll enjoy that". How shrewd a judge of character he was. I read it at a single sitting, it is as you all know "unputdownable". At our next meeting we (now a growing film company) asked his permission to make The book into a feature film. In his typically self deprecating way he simply told us to "Get on with it". He then went on to tell me and reminded me constantly that it was his beloved Barbara's greatest wish that it be made into a film.
It had been my original intention to make the series about Brum first and follow it up with the feature film. However getting a serialised TV drama into production is no small task. The pitfalls are even more treacherous than descending on Cannock Chase with one cord on your parachute ( well perhaps not but the sharks are very viscious). Alex agreed with us, that it will make far better commercial sense to make the movie first. It is much easier (though still tough) to finance and secure marketing deals for a feature film, than it is for the telly. The film will cement our profile as a production company and will give us instant credibility. It is after all the last and by far the best of the GOLDEN AGE storys to be told. Alex agreed last Wednesday that it should take the form of a retrospective on his utterly remarkable life, so it will take in a look back from the "Sigh for A Merlin Day" at the BBMF shortly before Alex lost his lifetime pal Jeffrey Quill and the love of his life Barbara.
I have promised Alex that the film will be accurate to both "Gull" and "Merlin", why I should need to embelish what is already unbeleivable I don't know, but that is my pledge and it was repeated in a very sad conversation of condolence with his son. I repeat it now to those of you who are his fans.
Thanks for reading this and please feel free to contact me. I should like to pay a special thanks to Snapshot and to the Castle Vale ATC for placing that wonderful tribute at Tolkiens memorial to the Spit.
Below my contribution to the pictures of the most wonderful Englishman I have ever known. He is not dead, simply off flying again. He loves it so much that none of us shall ever see him again. But die? Never.
http://www.carvery.zoomshare.com [email protected]
John Barton ( known as Jon Carver actor se FlyPast magazine news April edition)
) and allow me to share some information with you, which I hope will gladden the hearts of all of you as we come to terms with the passing of a Fine Fine Englishman.I was with Alex for lunch on Wednesday last week. That meeting was to be the last in a number of meetings, the memory of each one I shall treasure for all my days.
Before I continue, let me first of all give you the news. Those of you who have suggested that there ought to be a film, will be delighted to know that "THE FLIGHT OF THE MEW GULL" THE MOVIE. Is now in the pre production financing and planning stages. What follows is how this has come about. For those of you who are interested, please read on and I would love to hear from you all.
For some time I have been working towards a major television project. The story of Birmingham's amazing wartime effort is one that is largely unknown outside of the City. As Alex tells those of you unfamiliar with our City's past, due to a D notice imposed on the City. Like a lot of Baby boomers I grew up with the war being spoon fed to us along the lines of "What we did for you lot!". To most of us as small children in the '50s, it was a world utterly remote from our own and as such all but a few of us learned the lessons we ought to about the darkest period in our country's long and glorious history. My research at first for personal instruction, blossomed to outrage when I discovered the size of the (as I said) unknown destruction rained on my City by Goering and co, yet they still carried on collared to it ( as Carl Chinn a local prof of history points out) and turned out everything that was needed for the front line and the home front.
My research began to form as an idea for a dramatised documentary and then into a full blown drama series. These are important lessons for all of us in these reckless careless and self centred times we live in. Books will be read by those closely interested in a particular topic. Docu dramas collect more than books, but a full on drama works best as an instructional tool, because it entertains. I thus conceived the idea of A MIDLANDS TOWN. This is to be a 6 part television drama series on not just Birmingham(though largely so) but the entire country's Home front experience. It is being planned to have many of the visual and visceral effects of "Band of Brothers", "Saving private Ryan" and "Enemy at the gate". I want the series when it eventually reaches the production stages to be as powerful a document as all of those films. The concept born then, I as a jobbing a ctor had to set about realising my goal.
The nucleus of "A MIDLANDS TOWN" is tThe Castle Bromwich Aeroplane Factory. I have chosen this as the central focus from which a wide range of stories can be told, for several reasons. Firstly, it is one of the few buildings left from the period, that weren't either destroyed by The Luftwaffe or Our vandalistic 60s planners. Secondly, because both I, My father ( ex Lord Mayor of Brum Ken Barton) and my uncle Roland all worked there, at Fishers as it is known locally even now. Thirdly,because of that small area of Birmingham 24, that will forever be linked with that most potent icon of freedom, THE SPITFIRE.
I became a sponge soaking up whatever I could. In answer to an earlier question. Daniel Scott-Davies, Alex curator at the Hendon museum, is happy to accomodate visitors by prior appointment. I spent an enthralling time with Alex log books notes and mementos and an utterly awe struck time standing in front of the three trophy cabinets chock full of his trophys ( with more to come). I knew that I had to meet this man. I wrote to him via Daniel and thought " That's the last I'll hear of that". I could not have been more wrong however. He wrote two days later to say that he was so very pleased that someone in my profession was at last taking an interest in the plight of the people of Birmingham at war. He invited me for lunch and that was the start of an all too brief but highly productive friendship. Despite knowing him for such a short time ( about a year) the effect that he has had on me has been one of complete transformation.
At our first meeting Alex presented me with a signed copy of Mew Gull with no more than the observation " I think you'll enjoy that". How shrewd a judge of character he was. I read it at a single sitting, it is as you all know "unputdownable". At our next meeting we (now a growing film company) asked his permission to make The book into a feature film. In his typically self deprecating way he simply told us to "Get on with it". He then went on to tell me and reminded me constantly that it was his beloved Barbara's greatest wish that it be made into a film.
It had been my original intention to make the series about Brum first and follow it up with the feature film. However getting a serialised TV drama into production is no small task. The pitfalls are even more treacherous than descending on Cannock Chase with one cord on your parachute ( well perhaps not but the sharks are very viscious). Alex agreed with us, that it will make far better commercial sense to make the movie first. It is much easier (though still tough) to finance and secure marketing deals for a feature film, than it is for the telly. The film will cement our profile as a production company and will give us instant credibility. It is after all the last and by far the best of the GOLDEN AGE storys to be told. Alex agreed last Wednesday that it should take the form of a retrospective on his utterly remarkable life, so it will take in a look back from the "Sigh for A Merlin Day" at the BBMF shortly before Alex lost his lifetime pal Jeffrey Quill and the love of his life Barbara.
I have promised Alex that the film will be accurate to both "Gull" and "Merlin", why I should need to embelish what is already unbeleivable I don't know, but that is my pledge and it was repeated in a very sad conversation of condolence with his son. I repeat it now to those of you who are his fans.
Thanks for reading this and please feel free to contact me. I should like to pay a special thanks to Snapshot and to the Castle Vale ATC for placing that wonderful tribute at Tolkiens memorial to the Spit.
Below my contribution to the pictures of the most wonderful Englishman I have ever known. He is not dead, simply off flying again. He loves it so much that none of us shall ever see him again. But die? Never.
http://www.carvery.zoomshare.com [email protected]
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Alex Henshaw and G-AEXF
Hello everyone. I have posted messages elsewhere on these boards and I should be grateful if you all would help to keep the grapevine going.
Firstly I should like to add my personal thoughts of the man who became my friend for such a brief but amazing time. I have never been particularly struck by celebrity,but my first trip to Alex house for a marvelous lunch was the most nerve wracking thing I have ever undertaken. Mr Henshaw is ( men like him do not die) quite simply one of the last men to rightly be called a true Englishman.
It took no more than 2 minutes for him to insist on my calling him Alex. "If we're to be friends and work together" he said " I can't have you calling me Mr Henshaw all the time". He is quite simply the most magical human being I have ever met. Right up until the end he was securing his legacy for the world. His new collaboration with his great pal Michael Turner and Francois Prins is going to be a wonderful thing to behold and he was with these two great men the day after he met with our exec team for what was to be the last time, to discuss our film.
I shall miss him dreadfully. However I am happy to know that he is reunited with his beautiful Barbara again and they're off flying, who knows where.
On a number of boards, People have been asking about the rumours they have heard about a movie.
I am (amidst the sadness of his passing), delighted to tell all of you that the rumours are true.
Alex had been collaborating and supporting my writing of a six part mini drama series on my home City Birmingham, during the war. At the second meeting we had with him, I boldly asked if I might have his commision to turn The Flight of The Mew Gull into a major feature film. He simply said "Oh yes get on with it". He then went on to tell me that it was actually Barbara's fondest wish that it be made into a film...she even had a star lined up to play her husband....sadly Edward Fox is a tad too old to play the younger Alex but you never know???
The film was moved from the back plate to the hot ring a few weeks ago. Alex and we recognised that commercially it makes a lot more sense to make the film first, for reasons I needn't bore you with here. With a worldwide success under our belts as the Mew Gull movie surely will be, we can then set about telling the story of Brum at war, which was the project that Alex and I first met to discuss and which he was so passionate about.
He was simply the most amazing, kind and generous man I have ever (and will ever) known. What a life. What an amazing life.
Over and out Alex, fly well my friend.
John Barton ( equity pro name Jon Carver)
www.carvery.zoomshare.com [email protected]
Please pass the word around, a sackful of supportive emails will help to ease apart the backers wallets.
Jon
Firstly I should like to add my personal thoughts of the man who became my friend for such a brief but amazing time. I have never been particularly struck by celebrity,but my first trip to Alex house for a marvelous lunch was the most nerve wracking thing I have ever undertaken. Mr Henshaw is ( men like him do not die) quite simply one of the last men to rightly be called a true Englishman.
It took no more than 2 minutes for him to insist on my calling him Alex. "If we're to be friends and work together" he said " I can't have you calling me Mr Henshaw all the time". He is quite simply the most magical human being I have ever met. Right up until the end he was securing his legacy for the world. His new collaboration with his great pal Michael Turner and Francois Prins is going to be a wonderful thing to behold and he was with these two great men the day after he met with our exec team for what was to be the last time, to discuss our film.
I shall miss him dreadfully. However I am happy to know that he is reunited with his beautiful Barbara again and they're off flying, who knows where.
On a number of boards, People have been asking about the rumours they have heard about a movie.
I am (amidst the sadness of his passing), delighted to tell all of you that the rumours are true.
Alex had been collaborating and supporting my writing of a six part mini drama series on my home City Birmingham, during the war. At the second meeting we had with him, I boldly asked if I might have his commision to turn The Flight of The Mew Gull into a major feature film. He simply said "Oh yes get on with it". He then went on to tell me that it was actually Barbara's fondest wish that it be made into a film...she even had a star lined up to play her husband....sadly Edward Fox is a tad too old to play the younger Alex but you never know???
The film was moved from the back plate to the hot ring a few weeks ago. Alex and we recognised that commercially it makes a lot more sense to make the film first, for reasons I needn't bore you with here. With a worldwide success under our belts as the Mew Gull movie surely will be, we can then set about telling the story of Brum at war, which was the project that Alex and I first met to discuss and which he was so passionate about.
He was simply the most amazing, kind and generous man I have ever (and will ever) known. What a life. What an amazing life.
Over and out Alex, fly well my friend.
John Barton ( equity pro name Jon Carver)
www.carvery.zoomshare.com [email protected]
Please pass the word around, a sackful of supportive emails will help to ease apart the backers wallets
.Jon
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I only just found out, seeing it as a small footnote in Pilot magazine. I have his books and they are well thumbed. So I feel I knew him in a way. I always wished I could have seen one of his famous Spitfire displays.
He was something of an icon to me. I hope the film idea comes off. It might be a fitting tribute.
He was something of an icon to me. I hope the film idea comes off. It might be a fitting tribute.
Alex Henshaw
When Alex was in Australia in 1998 he gave an hour long radio interview. Talking with him was Margaret Throsby, whose program, Margaret Throsby's Guest, is still going. (A check of the ABC website and a search for radio tape sales might strike oil.)
At one point when Alex was saying how potent was the Luftwaffe, Margaret Throsby came out with the monumental gaffe, "Oh, did the Germans have Spitfires and Hurricanes too?" Alex, ever the gentleman and never the belittler, replied mildly, "No, no; only the RAF and our allies." (A repeat of that interview some years later had the gaffe deleted.)
She also asked him about his feelings in the Mew Gull, southbound to the Cape, to do with the astonishing cloudscape that greeted him with daylight over North Africa. "I'd think your soul would have been filled with the most beautiful, inspiring thoughts." "Not at all. Not at all. My mind was entirely on the job in hand."
As a Chilean reporter filming from a C310 over the Straits of Magellan said about the latter day Sir Francis as he tacked powerfully through in Gypsy Moth IV :
"QUE HOMBRE!"
At one point when Alex was saying how potent was the Luftwaffe, Margaret Throsby came out with the monumental gaffe, "Oh, did the Germans have Spitfires and Hurricanes too?" Alex, ever the gentleman and never the belittler, replied mildly, "No, no; only the RAF and our allies." (A repeat of that interview some years later had the gaffe deleted.)
She also asked him about his feelings in the Mew Gull, southbound to the Cape, to do with the astonishing cloudscape that greeted him with daylight over North Africa. "I'd think your soul would have been filled with the most beautiful, inspiring thoughts." "Not at all. Not at all. My mind was entirely on the job in hand."
As a Chilean reporter filming from a C310 over the Straits of Magellan said about the latter day Sir Francis as he tacked powerfully through in Gypsy Moth IV :
"QUE HOMBRE!"
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Apologies for the thread bounce, but Alex's car is up for auction this weekend.
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"Henshaw learned to fly when he was 20 and took part in air racing, competing against more famous pilots such as Geoffrey de Havilland, a relative of Hollywood actress and Gone With The Wind star, Olivia de Havilland."
I knew I'd herad the name De Havilland before somewhere, an actress, of course, how silly of me...
I knew I'd herad the name De Havilland before somewhere, an actress, of course, how silly of me...
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Alex Henshaw is interviewed in the DVD "Supermarine Spitfire - The Pilots Eye View".
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A good aviation movie is long overdue. I hope it does this great aviator justice.
I do not know much about subsequent attempts to beat his 1939 record but like all records, they are out there to be beaten and perhaps one day A.H.'s will be and some feat it will be too.
It looks as though one such attempt will be launched on or around the 70th anniversary.
I do not know much about subsequent attempts to beat his 1939 record but like all records, they are out there to be beaten and perhaps one day A.H.'s will be and some feat it will be too.
It looks as though one such attempt will be launched on or around the 70th anniversary.
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Sadly I find it beyond credibility that anyone nowadays would be daft/irresponsible enough to try to fly for 4 days virtually without sleep, any more than any Aviation Authority would be ditto to allow them to.
The record was taken by a horrendously overloaded British built, British engined aeroplane with (alledgedly) under 200Hp and no autopilot.
Can't see that being replicated anytime soon, and breaking the 200Hp no autopilot ethos would make a mockerey of any attempt, as would relays of pilots. Forget it.
Let AH's record stand.
The record was taken by a horrendously overloaded British built, British engined aeroplane with (alledgedly) under 200Hp and no autopilot.
Can't see that being replicated anytime soon, and breaking the 200Hp no autopilot ethos would make a mockerey of any attempt, as would relays of pilots. Forget it.
Let AH's record stand.
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I suppose there were some people who considered Alex Henshaw "daft/irresponsible" when he made his flights in 1939. 
"4 days virtually without sleep" is a slight exaggeration. He clearly didn't get much sleep on his 39 hrs 23 mins flight out or his 39 hrs 36 mins return, but (from recollection) he was in Cape Town for about 28 hours in between.
"breaking the 200Hp no autopilot ethos would make a mockerey of any attempt, as would relays of pilots."
I understand your point of view, but there are two sides to the argument.
Henshaw's Mew Gull was 'state of the art' in those days - an already very quick racing aircraft specially modified for his record attempt. If someone attempted to break the record now, it would seem reasonable to use what is a state of the art aircraft these days. If they broke Henshaw's records, the new records would reflect aviation progress in 70 years.
(Relays of pilots wouldn't break his records.)
BTW ......
The Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators is commemorating the 70th anniversary of Henshaw's record-breaking Cape flights next February.
There will be a dinner at the RAF Museum on the 5th February (the date he left London) and a dinner in Cape Town during the week beginning Monday 9th February. (Venue & date to be confirmed shortly.)
I'll post more info when it becomes available.
Both dinners will be open to all aviation enthusiasts, not only to members of the Guild.
Tudor
"4 days virtually without sleep" is a slight exaggeration. He clearly didn't get much sleep on his 39 hrs 23 mins flight out or his 39 hrs 36 mins return, but (from recollection) he was in Cape Town for about 28 hours in between.
"breaking the 200Hp no autopilot ethos would make a mockerey of any attempt, as would relays of pilots."
I understand your point of view, but there are two sides to the argument.
Henshaw's Mew Gull was 'state of the art' in those days - an already very quick racing aircraft specially modified for his record attempt. If someone attempted to break the record now, it would seem reasonable to use what is a state of the art aircraft these days. If they broke Henshaw's records, the new records would reflect aviation progress in 70 years.
(Relays of pilots wouldn't break his records.)
BTW ......
The Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators is commemorating the 70th anniversary of Henshaw's record-breaking Cape flights next February.
There will be a dinner at the RAF Museum on the 5th February (the date he left London) and a dinner in Cape Town during the week beginning Monday 9th February. (Venue & date to be confirmed shortly.)
I'll post more info when it becomes available.
Both dinners will be open to all aviation enthusiasts, not only to members of the Guild.
Tudor
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FL, et al - what happened to the film proposed - any clues anyone? or was it just a barking 'jolly good idea' - "wouldn't it be good if" etc?
Please PM me if you want to know why I can ask this - profiles are dangerous things, but I have 'some' specialist knowledge in this area..
Please PM me if you want to know why I can ask this - profiles are dangerous things, but I have 'some' specialist knowledge in this area..
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If the film was made they could even use the ORIGINAL Percival Mew Gull racer G-AEXF which resides at ( and still flies from) Breighton Airfield in God,s own country(Yorkshire). see www.realaero.com for pictures.
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Well, yes. My point precisely. But.. our Equity member friend 'brumbear', has gone strangely quiet - no blame attached, the market for 'good' film ideas is very fickle at the best of times, and even more so now. I should know
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However, after lots of puff and trumpeting on what I consider to be an "expert's expert's" site, I believe we need an update. Art Nalls and his Harrier details seem to demonstrate how to use a specialist forum on the web to keep the punters up to date..
Hmmm
I think we should be told.
If it was true in the first place.
Well, yes. My point precisely. But.. our Equity member friend 'brumbear', has gone strangely quiet - no blame attached, the market for 'good' film ideas is very fickle at the best of times, and even more so now. I should know
.However, after lots of puff and trumpeting on what I consider to be an "expert's expert's" site, I believe we need an update. Art Nalls and his Harrier details seem to demonstrate how to use a specialist forum on the web to keep the punters up to date..
Hmmm
I think we should be told.
If it was true in the first place.
Not only have I read Flight of the Mew Gull and Sigh for a Merlin so many times that my copy of the former is falling to bits, but I was also a Thrust SSC 'Gold' member and sponsored Dead Dog's supersonic record. So it will be good to hear what he has to say!
Personally I thought that Noble's next venture, the Farnborough F1 aircraft, was doomed to failure by regulations, no matter how sound the design. Single-pilot single-engined IFR-operation of an air taxi aircraft still hasn't been approved by the CAA - I don't know how things will be under EASA though.
Personally I thought that Noble's next venture, the Farnborough F1 aircraft, was doomed to failure by regulations, no matter how sound the design. Single-pilot single-engined IFR-operation of an air taxi aircraft still hasn't been approved by the CAA - I don't know how things will be under EASA though.
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Beagle, apologies for slight thread drift, but am I right in thinking that the Farnborough F.1 was built in the States under another name? Anybody with info, thanks.