[TheForge] OT: this is driving me crazy...

[Bob Ehrenberger]

Andy,

When I was single I drove an XKE, I noticed that almost every time you saw 
an XKE in a movie it would go off a cliff before the end.  I think that at 
that time you could get them pretty cheep but they looked expensive. Not so 
cheep now, the last one I saw for sale was $50k, maybe because they crashed 
so many in the 60's and 70's.

On the planes, they may have been cheep and plentiful when the movie was 
made in the 60's. Or maybe they were able to take a similar plane and do a 
make over on it to get it to pass for a Spitfire.


Robert Ehrenberger
Shelbyville, Mo.
eforge at centurytel.net

Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2012 11:17:48 -0500
From: Andrew Vida <osan at netlabs.net>
Subject: [TheForge] OT: this is driving me crazy...

...so I will ask you guys because you are all smarter than I am.

The other day I watched "The Battle Of Britain"... 1969, Christopher
Plummer, James Fox, Laurence Olivier, and so forth.  I will use any
excuse to watch or listen to Spitfires.  Yes, I am weak.

Anyhow, there are several scenes where the Luftwaffe are handing the
Brits their heads as they bomb the living snot out of their airfields.

Does anyone know whether all those Spits and Hurricanes that were blow'd
up real good were surplus real-deal aircraft or props?  The thought that
anyone would have destroyed that many real aircraft for the sake of film
makes my head hurt with some non-trivial violence.  I have a similar
reaction any time I see really nice things destroyed in the name of
cinema verit?.  Seeing, for example, a very nice Porsche or Bentley or
Ferrari, etc., being wrecked for the sake of action sets my stomach to
queasiness.