633 Squadron Mosquitos

"Steve Hix" wrote in message
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"Richard Brooks" wrote:

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"Alan Dicey" wrote

Bf 108's (as "Bf 109's"), models.

Since they were building models anyway, why didn't they build models
of
the
correct aircraft type?


They did that for the Mossies! That's why they waggeled side to side
before
the props andspiiners shot out the front when hit.

The Bf108 trainers were also used for that bloody film I now forget
where
the train is stuck in the mountains and ole Blue Eyes almost makes it
but
gets shot in the back and lies dying on the tracks. Ahhhh Von Ryan's
Express methinks!

Pity, given that they used a real P-38 for some of the aerial shots.

Didn't the pair of 108s (painted in, IIRC some kind of spurious
desert/northern European camouflage) also fire rockets ?



Frank Tallman* flew it, and I was in high school at Newbury Park, a
couple-three miles from were he was staging out from the old strip
at Rancho Conejo airport.

I heard it flying overhead, and hotfooted it to the airport, where
I would have been on weekends anyway, and got to see it land and
take off, refueling between shooting sessions.

He let me climb up the ladder at the back of the cockpit to look
in a marvel at the front office...

If I ever had a chance to escape from a lifetime of chasing planes,
it was extinguished pretty much that afternoon.

* I'm pretty sure it was Mr. Tallman, the plane was one from the
TallMantz collection. I didn't ask at the time, just jumped for
the greasy ladder when he said "Hey kid, come on over for a minute..."
I think he was showing pity, I doubt that the drooling and small
whimpers were all that attractive. :}

Heh! In my day it was the obligatory dragging up to the front to say "Hi!"
to the steam engine driver.


Richard.