King & Country
1st Lieutenant
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- May 23, 2005
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Hi Guys,
2018 marks the 50th Anniversary of the making of one of my favourite war movies... “THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN”.
Released in 1969 the film was a true epic of the time before ‘CGI’ (Computer Generated Imagery). Virtually all the aircraft seen in the air were the ‘real thing’ apart from some radio-controlled models used for crash scenes.
It’s fair to say that the production of this movie ‘kick-started’ the WARBIRD movement in the U.K. which continues to thrive and grow to this day.
At the time, 1968, the producers managed to locate 27 x Spitfires in the U.K. of which 12 were available for filming aerial scenes. Just 3 flyable Hurricanes in the entire world were able to take part.
Thanks to the Spanish Air Force, 32 x CASA 2 III’s (the locally-built version of He. III) were made use of as well as 27x Hispano Aviacon ‘Buchons’ (again Spanish versions of the Me.109).
To remember the movie K&C are releasing one of the aircraft portrayed in the film... Squadron Leader ‘Skipper’s’ Spitfire coded ‘AIA’ and sporting 9 x ‘kills’ alongside the Squadron Leader pennant on the fuselage of the aircraft.
In the movie the late Robert Shaw played ‘Skipper’.
Here are a couple of pix showing the ‘movie Spitfire’ alongside 3 previous Battle of Britain Spitfires produced by K&C.
Best wishes and ... happy flying!
Andy
P.S. ‘Spitfire Quartet’ also shows one of our very early solid canopy Spits.
2018 marks the 50th Anniversary of the making of one of my favourite war movies... “THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN”.
Released in 1969 the film was a true epic of the time before ‘CGI’ (Computer Generated Imagery). Virtually all the aircraft seen in the air were the ‘real thing’ apart from some radio-controlled models used for crash scenes.
It’s fair to say that the production of this movie ‘kick-started’ the WARBIRD movement in the U.K. which continues to thrive and grow to this day.
At the time, 1968, the producers managed to locate 27 x Spitfires in the U.K. of which 12 were available for filming aerial scenes. Just 3 flyable Hurricanes in the entire world were able to take part.
Thanks to the Spanish Air Force, 32 x CASA 2 III’s (the locally-built version of He. III) were made use of as well as 27x Hispano Aviacon ‘Buchons’ (again Spanish versions of the Me.109).
To remember the movie K&C are releasing one of the aircraft portrayed in the film... Squadron Leader ‘Skipper’s’ Spitfire coded ‘AIA’ and sporting 9 x ‘kills’ alongside the Squadron Leader pennant on the fuselage of the aircraft.
In the movie the late Robert Shaw played ‘Skipper’.
Here are a couple of pix showing the ‘movie Spitfire’ alongside 3 previous Battle of Britain Spitfires produced by K&C.
Best wishes and ... happy flying!
Andy
P.S. ‘Spitfire Quartet’ also shows one of our very early solid canopy Spits.
Of course, the TRULY GREAT draw of the KC Spitfire is it's scale compatibility with the manufacturer's pilots, crew, vehicles and scenics. As I suspect is true of many of our members, I'm particularly enamored of the BoB sets.
