"Stephen C. Woods" <scw@ollie.SEAS.UCLA.EDU> (10/30/90)
From: "Stephen C. Woods" <scw@ollie.SEAS.UCLA.EDU> In article <1990Oct22.040454.19150@cbnews.att.com> Adrian Hurt writes: >From: Adrian Hurt <adrian@cs.heriot-watt.ac.uk> >In article <1990Oct15.033615.12299@cbnews.att.com> ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Nur Iskandar Taib) writes: >>I still [...] fjord. I expect most were models, but.. 'es not dead, 'es pinin' for the fijords. >That's "633 Squadron". 603 Squadron was a real live squadron of Spitfires; >I think it's safe to assume that all the Mosquitos seen in combat scenes >in "633 Squadron" were models, especially the ones that were damaged or >destroyed! [... Well unfortunatly the producers of ^633 squadron saw fit to destroy one of the 5 (2 ground runners, 3 flying) Mossies that they had available. The scene where the landing aircraft is shotup and taxies into a petrol bowser used a real (non flyable) aricraft. According to the aero modeling magazine (the name escapes me ) the owners were, to say the least, livid. <scw> ----- Stephen C. Woods; UCLA SEASNET; 2567 BH;LA CA 90024; (213)-825-8614 UUCP: ...!{ibmsupt,hao!cepu}!ollie}!scw Internet:scw@SEAS.UCLA.EDU