| Quite a few aviation films in recent years,were the result of surplus material that got shot but remained on the cutting room floor,a good example of this was '633 Squadron' which had enough material of Mosquitoe's in film action that it was used to make 'Mosquito Squadron' thankfully there were enough Mossies around back then to make into a squadron but there was a sinister twist to this,one scene required a Mosquito to be crashed into a fuel bowser,after much discussion with the aircrafts owner it was decided to drag one via steel rope across the airfield into the bowser,this way the final film could be speeded up and with a bit of skill made to look realistic,what actually happened was the aircraft was taxied into the tanker and effectively written off in the process.The moral behind this one is never trust a film company to look after your aeroplane.There is another case of a Gipsy Moth that was hired out to make a film on a long distance flight on the understanding that 'x' amount of hours were to be flown on this aircraft,the aircraft was flown silly and came back to the owner in a bit of a mess !
Other offshoot films were 'Aces High' which used aircraft and scenes from the 'Blue Max' and the infamous 'Darlin Lille' which was a box office flop.
Despite this it actually showed some lovely scenes of World war one aeroplanes,out of these I think 'Blue Max' came over with the best dog fight scenes,has anyone done a DVD yet of this I wonder ?
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