Interesting barn find

[Lost soul]

Just seen this on FB

http://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/stop-...

[dudleybloke]

nice!

[kooky guy]

They're stupid Buchons not BF109-Gs.

[baldy1926]

Not searched yet but certain there is a thread about these. I believe they were used in the Battle of Britain film

[ecsrobin]

baldy1926 said:

Not searched yet but certain there is a thread about these. I believe they were used in the Battle of Britain film

Yep there's a thread on here somewhere. They are buchons from the Battle of Britain film.

[Ginetta G15 Girl]

kooky guy said:

They're stupid Buchons not BF109-Gs.

I'm not sure an a/c can be 'stupid'.

While that was poor reporting, and they are indeed Hispano Buchons, the Buchon was a licensed built version of the Messerschmitt Bf109G. The fact that they have Merlins does not hide the fact that they are the same airframe.

[Dr Jekyll]

ecsrobin said:

Yep there's a thread on here somewhere. They are buchons from the Battle of Britain film.

To be more precise they are from the Spanish air force and were used in the Battle of Britain film.

[aeropilot]

Blimey this story is almost 6 months old now......

As as mentioned before, hardly a barn find anyway, it's been common knowledge among the vintage aviation world for the past 40 years that they were there.

[IanMorewood]

Yep the guy who's selling took them in part payment for his work in the battle of Britain movie, was going to leave them to his son but he predeceased etc.....

[aeropilot]

IanMorewood said:

Yep the guy who's selling took them in part payment for his work in the battle of Britain movie, was going to leave them to his son but he predeceased etc.....

Connie Edwards was one of four Confederate Airforce pilots that bought a batch of aircraft from the Spanish AF and then loaned them to the film company on condition they could fly in the film. The other pilots were Lloyd Nolan, Gerald Martin and Lefty Gardner.
I believe the Spitfire that Connie owned that was for sale with all the Buchon's was his payment for the film work....??

Here's the man himself in a recent photo with the two seat Buchon behind (which had been flown during filming by Luftwaffe legend Adolf Galland)



And here's Connie back in July 1968 during the filming after he had to make an emergency belly landing in one of the two-seat Spitfires after the engine seized in flight.

[Elroy Blue]

Great film about the sale. He seems to be real, no nonsense character.

http://player.ooyala.com/iframe.html#ec=lwZjZxbjrz...

(c/o the Flypast forum)