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About LinkBacksThis is apparantly a real shot taken for a TV show called 'Piece of Cake'.
This is apparantly a real shot taken for a TV show called 'Piece of Cake'.
'Make mine a Spitfire, Landlord!'
Yep - that was a great series, although I felt the competitiveness of the pilots was a little extreme though, some of the RAF pilots you disliked more than the 109s which often appeared behind them
- that picture above was in an episode where the pilots were daring each other to fly under the bridge, one guy makes it, the other doesn't ....
... twangs of "The Blue Max" for an episode idea?
I had PofC on VHS, lost it years ago tho, anyone got it?
Was this based on the Derek Robinson books perchance? If anyone hasn't read them, then read them, read them now.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/...157584-9535867
Saw the series when it was on telly... it was a bit soap opera ish though it had some great flying sequences. iirc, the guy who did the stunt wasn't flying an actual Spit but a 3/4 replica or something? Can't remember what it was, but there was some sort of trickery involved along those lines.... I think....
Originally Posted by Dareos
That looks fun
I actually live quite close to the bridge where that Blue Max scene was filmed in Fermoy. Ive never actually seen the bridge in real life though
It was a real spitfire MH434 flown by Mark Hannah. The bridge is the 100 foot semi circular Winston Bridge in County Durham. He went through it at 200mph. There is some conflicting information on the net as to if it was Ray or Mark Hannah but the OFMC website says it was Mark
Ahh, was that it... the bridge depicted in the series wasn't the actual bridge he flew under for the shot.... as in where they were based was nowhere near where the bridge he flew under was... or something like that...
If it follows the book they're based in France, and it was a bridge on the Moselle at Thionville where Dicky Starr buys it. They were also flying Hurries in the book mind.
Looks segmental to me. Nice bridge though.
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