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By: - 6th June 2005 at 10:43 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
but they did this also for real (not only for movies) - see a pick-up manouvre in the desert....
Martin
By: - 6th June 2005 at 10:46 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Wasn't the "Thunderball" pick-up from the sea?
By: - 6th June 2005 at 10:49 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
nope - "Thunderball" used the "Skyhook" system with a bracket on the B-17's nose, and the cast was rescued from a dinghy.
Here we see a different installation, with a wire being dragged under the tail to snatch the other wire between the two vehicles.
Martin
By: - 6th June 2005 at 10:52 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
This was a pretty low pass by the Spitfire last year espescially in this day and age!
By: - 6th June 2005 at 12:34 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Discussed once or twice before - Gerry Billings in Spitfire MK923:
http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/attachment.php?attachmentid=33336
By: - 6th June 2005 at 14:09 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Interesting and disturbing all in one
Thank's guy's :) ,
So it was not just a random nut job then :rolleyes: .
This was a nut job, who got paid to do it!! :eek: .
That's a very fine line :D .
By: - 8th June 2005 at 01:40 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
I have a video clip of Jerry Billing doing a simular pass at his grass strip in Essex Ontario
www.ontario-warbirds.ca
Dave C
By: - 8th June 2005 at 08:24 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
I'll give that a look! ;)
By: - 8th June 2005 at 16:28 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Not bad Dave, thank's for the link mate.
ahhh Daz, That shot became my first desk top photo, when I first got on line.
I had asked the big G the E, from C.W.D. was it a real shot, not computer gen stuff.
At first he thought it one of the Hanna's fooling around in N.Z., When I got on here, you guy's told me what it really was, and I passed that back on to Graham.
Like someone say's on here, If you Don't ask!!!
Great Flying!!!!!
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By: STORMBIRD262 - 6th June 2005 at 10:20
Here's a shot of a B-17 on the deck :eek: , maybe you had seen it, but I had not.(from Axls Plane Gallery)
Probably another of those highly excited boy pilot's :rolleyes: .
I have heard the remark a few time's now, around the net.
That WW2 was fought mostly by children, on all side's :rolleyes: .
I now day's think this is a pretty fair statment to make :) .
War is a sad business