Warbird Information Exchange

Isn't that 'Pudsey', the emblem of the BBC's "Children in Need" charity?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_in_Need

Randy,

It's the 'Sally B' Teddy Bear emblem, in memory of the late Ted White. He recovered the B-17 from France and brought it to the UK in 1975, and was later killed in a T-6 in Malta in around 1980.

Peter-

Any chance you have some better photo's of the camera ship.... N1042B? In one of them taken from a B-17 you can see it in he distance.

gunny

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Scott 'Gunny' Perdue
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Terrific photos... incidentally, if you have a slide scanner with Digital GEM it will remove the fading from the Kodachrome images. I've tried it myself on my scanner, and it works a treat.

Thanks for sharing.

Cheers,
Richard

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Richard Mallory Allnutt - Photography - http://www.rmallnutt.com

Which ship did they lose during the filming?

Was it a total loss?

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S.

The French Fortress that was still earning it's keep with the Geographical Institute. Total loss except tail which I believe, most of is the property of actor Billy Zane.
Jerry

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"Always remember that, when you enter the ocean or the forest, you are no longer at the top of the food chain."

Great photos Peter, many thanks for sharing, I've seen alot before but these are new to me.

As I understand (please feel free to correct me if any of this is incorrect):

F-BEEA was the 17 lost, very sad, the brakes locked and it swung on landing ending up off the side of the runway in the grass/hay catching fire and being totally destroyed. No one was hurt thankfully. Ironically the wreckage looked almost identical to that of a mock up constructed for the film for the scene at the beginning when the fort explodes.

Rumor is indeed that Billy Zane had the tail (pretty much the only recognisable part left) and that he had it hung on his wall...

The rear entry door was also supposed to have survived but cannot recall what became of that (someone else may be able to correct/ advise on this).

So a heavy price was paid for making the movie - the loss of one B-17 that would be here today otherwise!

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"A B-24 was the box a B-17 came in!" - One crew teasing another circa 1944!

Assuming it wouldn't have just happened anyhow somewhere else, right? Or was there something about the filming itself that caused this accident?

Indeed. The filming was not related as far as I am aware, it happened during the landing role after a shoot... just an unlucky turn of events.

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"A B-24 was the box a B-17 came in!" - One crew teasing another circa 1944!

Warner Bros still.

PeterA

A shot of the B-17's at Duxford, gathering prior to filming. (Now known to be incorrect and actually June 1987c)

PeterA

I have the original movie poster signed by Robert Morgan. A prized possesion for sure!

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Ain't no sunshine when she's gone!

PeterA ~ that is a wonderfully composed shot !

Do you have some more to share like this ?

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Blue Skies .....

Peter

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Ooh, those shots of the Mustangs all lined up and in the same scheme... just had the warm fuzzies run through my stomach.

The B-17 was lost in the take off accident, not a landing accident. I was looking for the report, but did not have any luck. I believe they lost a turbo on takeoff and swung off the runway

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