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Re: 633 re-make?
Posted by Steve again on Wed May 01, 2002 08:37:27 PM
In reply top Re: 633 re-make? posted by Ron Henry on Wed May 01, 2002 02:38:40 PM
: I tend to agree with your 'digital' thoughts. Does anyone
: know just how many airframes truly were destroyed in 633 S
: qn ?
:
Not sure; there seem to have been at least two though--I've seen stills of blazing Mossies in two different poses, one on its belly and the other nosed-over. The latter has appeared in print, rather wrenchingly, both as an intact but alight airframe and as a burning wing and engines with the fuselage completely consumed...the wing-only shot appears, without comment, in a 633 Sqn promo article in one of the earliest issues (Vol 1 #2) of Air Classics magazine, dating to 1963. Such a pic now would provoke howls of outrage in any vintage-air mag...times certainly change!
One of the surviving ex-633 Mossies has also been referred to as having sustained fire damage during filming, so it seems Mirisch really went to town on what were, after all, just time-expired old RAF aircraft at the time...
Cheers
S.