New film, “Battle over Britain”
So you don't find it even remotely cringeworthy when a 'crashed' aircraft is 'shown' as some sparkles sort of covering up the (still flying) aircraft as it moves across the landscape?
Heck, I found that annoying when I saw BoB in the theater when it was originally released...
Heck, I found that annoying when I saw BoB in the theater when it was originally released...
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Better get the station commander a bloody razor… the CGI looks as poor as it was in FlyBoys… the dispersal hut looks like a cheap (and very small) B&Q garden shed…
I could go on, but it looks truly dreadful. I think I’ll watch Travolta’s screen version of Forsythe’s “The Shepherd” instead, thanks
I could go on, but it looks truly dreadful. I think I’ll watch Travolta’s screen version of Forsythe’s “The Shepherd” instead, thanks
The movie is worth watching.
My neighbor who was two tours in the F-4 in Viet Nam, and an aggressor pilot towards our forces in the F-5, and a F-15 peacetime puke said that was his favorite movie. Could have been age related, but most definitely combat related, pure. Just ask my father-in-law, a B-17 tail-gunner; or my wife's uncle a B-24 aircraft commander in N. Africa ... you will see them in Heaven if it's your time and place.
The lineage of the courageous and the brave amongst us was true and consistent. Many of us can and did step up for us all to overcome tyranny. I pray that character continues forward for us all.
Roger that, I'm preaching to the choir and right on brothers in arms.
Just watching First Light - really enjoyed the book, I may dig it out again - I presume they used AI instead of QJ so they could use footage from the BoB film.
Came across this about Polish pilots by accident while searching for something else, bit irritated by the reconstructions but interesting all the same
Came across this about Polish pilots by accident while searching for something else, bit irritated by the reconstructions but interesting all the same
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The poor old Hurri never did get its just due for its role in the BOB. It did yeoman's work for sure and took a real load off the Spitfire Squadrons.
Dudley Henriques
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The pre-opening titles sequences (the roll over refugees, and those with Christopher Plummer, Robert Shaw, Ian McShane, Edward Fox etc. are all Hurricanes, they could only get 3 flying examples two Mk IIc's both now with the BoBMF and a Mk XII (sadly later destroyed). They had two taxying examples and a pile of replicas some of which could be taxied.
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Keith Park (Trevor Howard) arrives in a Hurricane in the movie. Actually Park favored Hurricanes in real life as well.
The poor old Hurri never did get its just due for its role in the BOB. It did yeoman's work for sure and took a real load off the Spitfire Squadrons.
Dudley Henriques
The poor old Hurri never did get its just due for its role in the BOB. It did yeoman's work for sure and took a real load off the Spitfire Squadrons.
Dudley Henriques
Indeed he did. Here is a picture of P3854/OK1 with the man himself alongside, which I pinched from this article Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Park – Officially One of The Few! Apparently his name was not included in lists of 'The Few' as his medal card had gone missing even though, having flown two relevant operational flights, he had been awarded the BoB clasp to his 1939-45 Star.
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