B25 Mitchells Do fly in IMC
 

An heartfelt appeal, my copy of this breath-taking film has got corrupted. PLEASE does anyone have a DVD rip or any other sort of copy? I was bereft!
Thanks in advance Guys, if ANYONE has it, it will be a Ppruner I recon!

It's ironic that the entire exercise was for a few minutes of screen time in a film far less remembered than the film about the flights.

Thanks SLB & wub, sadly those links are just data or dead. I think I might be on the trail however, thanks fo another kind Ppruner.

I am not allowed to post URLs yet but if you goto airlinetv dot net and search for B25 the film comes up in 5 parts.

You recon right ! I have it from way back then, was on videotape, I transfered it to dvd more years ago than I care to remember. However, I have to find it, I do have it, its in one of my storage boxes and I will dig for it when next in the storage. Watch this space for updates.

I don't know, anything with Harrison Ford can't be all that bad.

Cheers Mes Amis! As usual Pprune to the rescue!

This was actually on YouTube until around a month ago, a guy called David Navone had it on his uploads.
I watched it November sometime and thought 'I must download that while it's online just in case', low and behold it was taken down and now there isn't a copy anywhere.

If you do find it please let me know, it was an awesome watch.

Brenda's Boys, N86427 - Museo del Aire, Cuatro Vientos AB, Madrid
Marvellous Miriam, N9115Z - RAF Museum, Hendon
Big Bad Bonnie, N9455Z - Latshaw Drilling & Exploration Co, Tulsa OK (airworthy?)
Gorgeous George-Anne, N9494Z - Brussels Air Museum Foundation, Belgium
Amazing Andrea, N7681C - Musee de l'Air, Paris, destroyed in hangar fire at Dugny, 1990.

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.

Edit: you beat me to it! ;)

David Navone still has it on there but its blocked in some countries for reasons of copyright. Maybe contact him via Youtube?

B-25_Hendon_March2016 by https://www.flickr.com/photos/102686263@N02/, on Flickr
This is the only one of those five that's still in the UK.

I had contacted him via YT but had no reply.
Your reply made me wonder if it wasn't blocked in other countries, I found a site that tells you where videos are blocked. It turns out Kosovo and Somalia it was unblocked.
I proxied to an address in Kosovo and hey presto it worked.
I then downloaded it, it's poor quality at 270p but it's better than not having it at all. It look as though it was transferred form VHS by the hiss on the audio.

I've removed the background static/hissing, recoloured it all to and exported it at 720p. I've also cropped in to make a widescreen version.
This is just an infill until Cyflyer finds his copy as no doubt it will be of better quality.

I can't post the links as I have less than 10 posts on here, they're in my Google Drive so DM me if you're after them I guess?

Just to reassure our friend, that I do have it, and will update as soon as I find it. You got me wanting to see those B25's flying to the sounds of 'Albatros' again, sheer magic !

PS, so what was the story of the loss of Jeff Hawke after his body found at the bottom of the Adriatic ?

He was thought to have possibly been gun running into one of the former Yugoslavian states. I recall an article at the time his body was recovered with the wreckage of G-OESX saying something like he'd told somebody "this is the big one"....

AAIB report...

Dave Tallichet is no longer with us.
It is possible that the plane is owned by his son or his corporation.

See post #11 above.

a/c sold from Tallichet ownership in 2002, and since 2014 in the ownership of Trent Latshaw in Tulsa, and yes its currently airworthy (and in its Big Bad Bonnie nose art)

Apologies, the list I used was outdated. Treadigraph got it right in post #11.

To add:
108-32782 (44-32782) N320SQ / PH-XXV Royal Netherlands Air Force Historical Flight
44-86893 A N6123C Red Bull Salzburg

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...;)

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.

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.

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.

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

Go forth and filleth ye boots!

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.

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?

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 .

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.

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.

Certainly do, yes please!

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.

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.

Look at posting #31 above.

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.

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...