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

[Charles]

I will bet they were built by the prop shop.   Here is an interesting memoir on 
the filming...

http://www.aeroreg.co.uk/html/BoB_1968.htm

However a vast number of the aerial veterans were reduced to scrap.  A film that 
will depress you is "Best Years of our Lives".  One of the pilots gets a job 
after the war destroying literally acres of B17s to be scrapped and turned into 
mobile homes.  



Charles




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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?