UK GA aircraft in TV dramas

[greggj]

What was the outcome ? (apart from dead passenger of course). Anyone knows what happened to the pilot ?

[flybymike]

For God's sake someone kill that apostrophe...

YWIMC

[ROG]

Appears Hume hired an Auster from the united services flying club at elstree ---taking off with the parcels. Whren he landed at southend the parcels had gone,unfortunately for hume the parcels were washed up --probably at gravesend.
Does this flying club still exist ??

[Jonzarno]

The episode ended in the meat packing factory.

Was it a spam canning factory?

[t8caa]

Again some years ago now the trusty C172 of Staverton Flying School, G-BEZO, was one of the stars of " Some mothers do have them" when Michael Crawford AKA Frank Spencer had a flying lesson with the expected results. Believe the flying sequences were shot in the back of BEZO with the 2 actors on fake controls.

[Hotelfox]

Haha, body to dump from C152. hahaha.
Whoever wrote the scenario, should have tried flight in C152 first, or even 172 for that matter. Oh dear... good, good.

There was this one. Does not sound like that it was dumped though.

http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j& ... LrriqDDGZQ

I remember that one as I'd been talking to it a few minutes earlier (Farnborough LARS) No indication of any problem on Farnborough frequency.

The other one I remember circa 1979 time. Beechcraft 200 (from memory) flying over London when the pilot noticed the door light illuminate followed by the swift exit of a female passenger.

I cannot find it on the AAIB site now.

"Personal tragedy struck in 1979 when, after 19 years of marriage, Mr Ritblat's first wife, Isabel died after falling out of a plane. He cut down his work hours after ..."

[Hotelfox]

Again some years ago now the trusty C172 of Staverton Flying School, G-BEZO, was one of the stars of " Some mothers do have them" when Michael Crawford AKA Frank Spencer had a flying lesson with the expected results. Believe the flying sequences were shot in the back of BEZO with the 2 actors on fake controls.

That one was a classic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqGpkWKCZiE

[Old Pilot]

Back in the 1980's I was a BBC producer and presenter in Wales.

One of my tasks was liaising with record companies.

I got a call one day from Polydor asking if I or one of my mates would do some flying for a promo video featuring Shakatak for an album titled Out Of This World. I enlisted a couple of friends, the late John McLean and Marcus Edwards, who ran an aerobatic display team Vixen Two. (Can you spot where it was filmed?)
The result was this;
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=out ... FORM=VIRE4

And here without the adverts
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1196n ... orld_music

[aerofurb]

Again some years ago now the trusty C172 of Staverton Flying School, G-BEZO, was one of the stars of " Some mothers do have them" when Michael Crawford AKA Frank Spencer had a flying lesson with the expected results. Believe the flying sequences were shot in the back of BEZO with the 2 actors on fake controls.

That one was a classic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqGpkWKCZiE

Also starring the Cessna FA152, G-BFRV. One of the actors (Michael Crawford or the 'instructor') obviously flew as at times only the two of them are in the Aerobat during air to air shots. Neat filming in the 172 though!

[Old Pilot]

Looks likes it's a long time Shoreham workhorse.

[Lefty]

A film rather than TV, but one of my friends at Waltham flew Tiger Moth G ANFM for some scenes in the "The Kings Speech".

[Old Pilot]

A film rather than TV, but one of my friends at Waltham flew Tiger Moth G ANFM for some scenes in the "The Kings Speech".

A little googling proves you are spot on Lefty.

The Air Britain site makes the following point;

Often photographed Tiger Moth, but this shot was taken in late September 1973 in the colours she still wears today. FM is now a “film star” having appeared in the King's Speech, although using a 1941 built aeroplane with a 1953 registration in a scene from 1936 makes one wonder about the production skills!

[aerofurb]

I enlisted a couple of friends, the late John McLean and Marcus Edwards, who ran an aerobatic display team Vixen Two.

Slight thread drift.... Vixen Two were of course ex-Rothmans Aerobatic Team aircraft and my RV-6 engine had been in various RAT Pitts' in its life (included a prop strike in 'E Malaysia' in the mid-70s IIRC) before ending up in Mr Lecomber's G-BOOK which was lost in a fire (some time after he had sold it) and thence it went into the RV. Vixen Two sadly had a mid-air....

[Paul_Sengupta]

A film rather than TV, but one of my friends at Waltham flew Tiger Moth G ANFM for some scenes in the "The Kings Speech".

Also known as Thunderbird 6!

(mentioned in another thread)

[Lefty]

A film rather than TV, but one of my friends at Waltham flew Tiger Moth G ANFM for some scenes in the "The Kings Speech".

A little googling proves you are spot on Lefty.

You seem quite surprised ! I'm quite wounded

I even got to replicate the film flight myself by doing the takeoff in G ANFM from the same strip that the filmed the Kings speech scene (in between the trees at Hatfield House).

He told me that the scene was filmed on a freezing February morning with low lying mist which made it quite difficult to find and land on the Hatfield strip. Although once they turned on the film lights, the fog burned off very quickly.