Battle of Britain
Wed Feb 14, 2007 12:58 am
Top film!!! - will have to try the Walton score on the DVD.
Wed Feb 14, 2007 7:16 am
those 'Stukas' aka Percival Proctors "Proctukas" - here's one of these ugly contraptions:
Martin
Martin
Thu Feb 15, 2007 1:59 am
There is even film of the 'Proctukas' flying in the World Backgrounds footage!
Steve
Steve
Thu Feb 15, 2007 10:07 am
Why was the footage of these a/c in flight not actually used in the film? Was the performance not convincing?
Also what was their fate post BoB?
Also what was their fate post BoB?
Thu Feb 15, 2007 11:12 am
I think they were scrapped. Only some testflights were made. They were deamed ultra-dangerous to fly, so no-one tried again.
Thu Feb 15, 2007 5:08 pm
Bradleygolding wrote:There is even film of the 'Proctukas' flying in the World Backgrounds footage!
Interesting. I don't think cameras ever rolled on the full size replicas. Are you shure that films not of the models?
Edward Soye wrote:Why was the footage of these a/c in flight not actually used in the film? Was the performance not convincing?
Also what was their fate post BoB?
Fouga's right. See my earlier post. They couldn't dive... And the scared a very experienced film aircraft designer and pilot. Scrapped.
As I said, issue one of Warbird Digest. It's got lots of other great articles too.
Thu Feb 15, 2007 9:27 pm
So far I have found two short sequences in Panavision of a single 'Proctuka' flying low towards the camera over an airfield. I understand that there may well be others.
The remains of one of the 'Proctukas' can be seen in the film 'Adolf Hitler, My Part In His Downfall' where it is burned before our eyes!
Out of interest Mick Charles designed and built a lot if not all of the RC Models for the film. All of the Stuka footage and most of the Hienkel stuff was shot in the UK, but when the weather turned they moved to Malta to get the rest.
The remains of one of the 'Proctukas' can be seen in the film 'Adolf Hitler, My Part In His Downfall' where it is burned before our eyes!
Out of interest Mick Charles designed and built a lot if not all of the RC Models for the film. All of the Stuka footage and most of the Hienkel stuff was shot in the UK, but when the weather turned they moved to Malta to get the rest.