may have been posted but a quick reminder, sunday night channel 4 7.30pm. Also, if you missed it, britains greatest pilot is available on the bbc i player, bloody fantastic!
Great stuff but to describe it as the plane that was crashed on Dunkirk beach is a bit of an exaggeration. For all practical purposes it is a new build.
It's a shame channel 4 insist on telling you what you're watching after every ad break. Grand designs etc are exactly the same. I know what I'm watching....... I was only watching it 3 minutes ago! Great to see the level of detail that goes into building one though. Was a bit of a stretch to call it Guy Martins as he only did a couple of things on it and it certainly wasn't the original..... Just a replica with the same numbers and a couple of extra touches..... But enjoyable non the less.
BTW, I may well be wrong and don't shoot me down in flames if I am, but the last shot of the aircraft showed the half black colour scheme, to which I seem to remember that those schemes were allocated to Scottish squadrons? with Duck egg blue being used for the the rest?
Yeah I noticed that too. Wasn't sure of the significance but I didn't think the one they made had black/white wings
I've taped it (how old am I?) recorded it, and I'll have another look, but I suspect that you are correct about their one being in the traditional colour scheme, even down to the brown / green camouflage and large yellow roundels.
Oddly enough I was working around the Duxford area quite recently and came across this. Not only a tribute to the Spitfire but also the thatchers art.
The black and white stripes were known as "invasion stripes" - they were painted on allied aircraft prior to the D-Day landings : mostly for easy identification of friendly aircraft as the American aircraft recognition was so poor, and we all know what their record on "friendly fire" incidents is like...
Quite a decent documentary but would have liked to have seen more of the actual build of the plane. I did find it quite irritating that Guy Martin put me off a bit as he kept repeating part of a sentence as he said it, not noticed that before when he has been speaking
The yellow around the edge of the roundels wasn't always there either........It was introduced to make the roundel show up more on planes that had the camo pattern..... I know this is Wikipedia, but it is fairly accurate Royal Air Force roundels - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
