Battle of Britain Film
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Battle of Britain Film
is currently on More 4, finishes at 11:00pm . Just in case anyone is missing it. They don't make films like that anymore! 
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Most of the crash scenes, especially those into water looked very real. Were they simply bloody good models and film techniques?
Or did they really destroy a bunch of planes to make the film?
Or did they really destroy a bunch of planes to make the film?
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not sure about the water shots, but didn't they get some of the country's best craftsmen to build full size replica's (without engines of course!) simply to use on the airfield shots and be blown up ??
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"The engine's overheating and so am I. Either we stand down or blow up. Now which do you want? "
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"All I got was a bellyful of English Channel!"
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"We're not easily frightened. Also, we know how hard it is for an army to cross the channel. Last little corporal who tried came a cropper. So don't threaten or dictate to us until you're marching up Whitehall! And even then we won't listen. "
ok, I'm cheating ..... see http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064072/quotes
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"All I got was a bellyful of English Channel!"
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"We're not easily frightened. Also, we know how hard it is for an army to cross the channel. Last little corporal who tried came a cropper. So don't threaten or dictate to us until you're marching up Whitehall! And even then we won't listen. "
ok, I'm cheating ..... see http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064072/quotes
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Crash sequences were all models - as one of our PPRuNe colleagues will attest having flown the real Spitfires and Hurricanes for the cameras.
Don't you yell at me MR Warwick!
Don't you yell at me MR Warwick!
Suspicion breeds confidence
"One of you elite trying to land without wheels again"
"Undercarriage lever a bit sticky was it sir?"
"Well actually yes it was"
"Well I wouldn't tell the CO that sir if I was you"
"Undercarriage lever a bit sticky was it sir?"
"Well actually yes it was"
"Well I wouldn't tell the CO that sir if I was you"
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BoB film
Try the following link and type in Battle of Britain. Lots of useful 'spotter info' !!
http://www.moviemistakes.com/
http://www.moviemistakes.com/
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There is (or was) one of the prop Hurricanes from BoB in the hangar at Hooton Park. Like all props it looks a bit ropey in close-up, but from about twenty feet away the prop makers did a fantastic job as, as far as I could make out, they had cast fibreglass panels from the real thing to fit over the tubular frame.
