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Old 9th Apr 2019, 14:12
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Originally Posted by Jhieminga
44-29121 N86427 Museo del Aire, Madrid.
44-29366 N9115Z Traded to RAF museum.
44-30210 N9455Z Still owned by Dave Tallichet.
44-30925 N9494Z Brussels Air Museum Foundation.
44-86701 N7681C Destroyed in museum fire Paris.
To add:
108-32782 (44-32782) N320SQ / PH-XXV Royal Netherlands Air Force Historical Flight
44-86893 A N6123C Red Bull Salzburg
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Old 10th Apr 2019, 13:24
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The question was about the five B-25s from the documentary only. If we're going to list all the surviving Mitchells we're going to be here a while...
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BBCapt, sorry for delay, but as I like keeping my promises, at last I found it ! Its not blueray quality, its a 40 year old TV program that was on vhs then transfered to dvd, but it is ok. It even has the commercial break ads on it. PM me a postal address and I'll send you a dvd copy with my compliments.

If others do have desire to see it, I may upload it to youtube, let me know.

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Old 10th May 2019, 12:55
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Mmmm got it on VHS someplace .. after I lost the original my mate Colin James got it from one of his Dan Air colleagues .. that's how long ago it was. Must find out how to turn VHSs into DVDs then can watch the other old things like "Reaching for the Skies" .. the documentary series not Douglas Bader and "Test Pilot" again.
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Old 11th May 2019, 00:08
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got it on VHS someplace .. after I lost the original my mate Colin James got it from one of his Dan Air colleagues
Dave, and you lost it again ? If you don't get sorted out, at least I have a copy and we can sort you out. "Reaching for the Skies", thats going back a few years, excellent series, wasn't that narrated by the actor Antony Quale, and the intro began in the Smithsonian Air Museum ? I have that as well transfered to dvd. I used to hoard loads of these old aviation series, and i'm glad I did. Notice how they don't make series like that any more ? Another excellent one was "Hunters in the Sky". Haven't heard back from BBCapt yet. Dave, any relation to a ww2 pilot ? There was a Gittins Beaufighter pilot.
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Old 11th May 2019, 00:13
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Reaching for the skies. The clip with the Martin Mars. And Bill Bowker in the Pawnee. "Not a bad bad landing if I say so myself but don't say it too loud or the next one will be a real shocker!" Wonderful series
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Reaching for the skies. The clip with the Martin Mars. And Bill Bowker in the Pawnee. "Not a bad bad landing if I say so myself but don't say it too loud or the next one will be a real shocker!" Wonderful series
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Seems I got my series's mixed up, Reaching for the Skies was Antony Quale, but not the one with the intro at the Smithsonian. It will come to me.
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Thanks LynxDriver - some memories there. I now think I was actually recalling the John Peel-narrated Classic Aircraft; wonder if I've got it on DVD somewhere?
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BBCapt, just spotted your PM, will sort out for you. I hadn't heard anything for so long that forgot about the thread and stopped monitoring it for ages .
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B-25s do fly in IMC DVD

I can recommend the following....

DVD (and an info booklet) of "Flight of the Mitchells B-25s do fly in IMC" can be ordered from Steve Richards of Richards Publishing....

[email protected]

..price GBP 15.95.

I have no financial connection to the above but I am a happy customer.
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Old 19th Oct 2019, 13:57
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Cleaned the windshields on one once

No health and safety..was at Dijon and had been bought by a mate and his partner in crime,
A couple of guys from north weald were working on the motors and showed me the deceleration creases on the fusalage. It had flown back from canada and the local mayor who was a friend of the then owner wanted a flight..it ran out of fuel and went into a recently harvested field hence the creases.
Unfortunately my mate didnt have the balls to fly it himself..ex swiss fighters, Swissair and executive jets so I never got a ride although I would have given it my best shot.
He had turned down flying hunters for thundercity even though he had 10 years experience.
Last I heard is that it was repositioned to Paris area but that was more than a decade ago.
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Old 19th Oct 2019, 14:08
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Originally Posted by cyflyer
BBCapt, sorry for delay, but as I like keeping my promises, at last I found it ! Its not blueray quality, its a 40 year old TV program that was on vhs then transfered to dvd, but it is ok. It even has the commercial break ads on it. PM me a postal address and I'll send you a dvd copy with my compliments.

If others do have desire to see it, I may upload it to youtube, let me know.
Certainly do, yes please!
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Please do not upload this film to Youtube as I currently hold the copyright for this programme. I have previously had an illegal posting removed under copyright infringement. A legitimate DVD released last month is available.
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Did you know that one of the B25s used in Hanover Street is under restoration in Belgium? Tthe fuselage was, in fact, loaned to the film makers of the recent TV adaptation of Catch 22 broadcast in the UK earlier this year.
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Originally Posted by shadowrichards
Please do not upload this film to Youtube as I currently hold the copyright for this programme. I have previously had an illegal posting removed under copyright infringement. A legitimate DVD released last month is available.
Where from please, (by PM if preferred ) my VHS copy is just about timex and my Betamax is unplayable due to lack of equipment.
Be lucky
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Old 3rd Nov 2019, 12:49
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Look at posting #31 above.
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Old 3rd Nov 2019, 17:50
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Originally Posted by shadowrichards
Look at posting #31 above.
Got it now. Sorry missed that first time round.
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Old 6th Nov 2019, 18:25
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Last year, when I was researching for my articles in Aeroplane magazine (July and August) in respect of the five B-25 Mitchells for the film Hanover Street, I couldn't get to the bottom of Aztec N9990Q which appeared to be integral to the party! The aircraft was present at both Bovingdon and Little Rissington. I suspect that subsequently it was connected to Lester Addy who was one of the ferry pilots on the Mitchell known as Always Dangerous (N9115Z). Does anyone know the Aztec's significance? We should not be confused with another Aztec (G-BJDH) which was a cameraship also at Little Rissington. Interestingly, as far as I recall, there were no air-to-air sequences in the final cut of Hanover Street.
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Old 16th May 2021, 11:18
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Smile B25 Do Fly IMC - DVD

Just purchased a new DVD copy with info book through Amazon @ £16.95 - original tape had to be unstuck so one or two marks but otherwise absolutely fantastic, after searching for many years and seeing a brief glimpse on YouTube which then disappeared...
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