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Anyone remember this from the early eighties?
Just watched it all on YouTube-it’s bloody brilliant.
I can remember it from back in the day but I wasn’t really interested in this sort of thing when I was eight or nine years old lol.
Apparently a a second series was all set up then the creator had the hump with Yorkshire TV so it got binned-such a shame,the last episode took us up to the Berlin airlift.
Extremely good TV for the time,no GGI at all obviously,just some real DC3’s in every episode!!
Just watched it all on YouTube-it’s bloody brilliant.
I can remember it from back in the day but I wasn’t really interested in this sort of thing when I was eight or nine years old lol.
Apparently a a second series was all set up then the creator had the hump with Yorkshire TV so it got binned-such a shame,the last episode took us up to the Berlin airlift.
Extremely good TV for the time,no GGI at all obviously,just some real DC3’s in every episode!!
and31 said:
Anyone remember this from the early eighties?
Just watched it all on YouTube-it’s bloody brilliant.
I can remember it from back in the day but I wasn’t really interested in this sort of thing when I was eight or nine years old lol.
Apparently a a second series was all set up then the creator had the hump with Yorkshire TV so it got binned-such a shame,the last episode took us up to the Berlin airlift.
Extremely good TV for the time,no GGI at all obviously,just some real DC3’s in every episode!!
Yep, I remember it.Just watched it all on YouTube-it’s bloody brilliant.
I can remember it from back in the day but I wasn’t really interested in this sort of thing when I was eight or nine years old lol.
Apparently a a second series was all set up then the creator had the hump with Yorkshire TV so it got binned-such a shame,the last episode took us up to the Berlin airlift.
Extremely good TV for the time,no GGI at all obviously,just some real DC3’s in every episode!!
IIRC, the first Great Warbirds Airshow at West Malling, was about 6 months after the TV series aired, and one of the Aces High C-47's involved was still in Ruskin markings from the filming.
Of the two C-47 used in filming, one is now on static display inside the America Air Museum at IWM Duxford, now painted back into its original wartime USAAF markings.
The other one is still airworthy and owned by Aces High, and could often be seen in the background of many Top Gear episodes parked up at Dunsfold.
We live within half hr or so of Duxford,and always went every summer,and I remember the Ruskin airways DC3 being there.
Watching it back over the last few nights,it reminds me so much of my father and his fledgling road haulage business-always ducking and diving and trying to avoid the ministry!
Watching it back over the last few nights,it reminds me so much of my father and his fledgling road haulage business-always ducking and diving and trying to avoid the ministry!
On the subject of the TV series, it was excellent and very true to the era in which it was set.
Yorkshire TV intended to make a second series in which they wanted the airline to graduate up to a larger aircraft - namely a Lockheed 749 Constellation. The aircraft they had in mind was Connie N7777G which had been in open storage at Dublin Airport since 1974. Yorkshire TV asked Aces High Ltd to assess the aircraft and see about getting it to the UK. Unfortunately. nine years of exposure to Dublin's salty air had corroded the airframe too much and they deduced that it would be impossible to restore the aeroplane to airworthy condition.
As a result, the Connie was dismantled at Dublin and taken by low loader and ferry to Liverpool where it was acquired by the Science Museum. It was subsequently restored to static display status and is now stored at the Science Museum's facility at Wroughton Airfield in Wiltshire.
The aircraft was restored in TWA colours with whom it never operated. It was originally bought new by KLM in the late 1940s.
As it looked at Dublin
It had been used to ferry equipment for a Rolling Stones tour in 1973 -
As she is today -
The C-47 used in the series -
Yorkshire TV intended to make a second series in which they wanted the airline to graduate up to a larger aircraft - namely a Lockheed 749 Constellation. The aircraft they had in mind was Connie N7777G which had been in open storage at Dublin Airport since 1974. Yorkshire TV asked Aces High Ltd to assess the aircraft and see about getting it to the UK. Unfortunately. nine years of exposure to Dublin's salty air had corroded the airframe too much and they deduced that it would be impossible to restore the aeroplane to airworthy condition.
As a result, the Connie was dismantled at Dublin and taken by low loader and ferry to Liverpool where it was acquired by the Science Museum. It was subsequently restored to static display status and is now stored at the Science Museum's facility at Wroughton Airfield in Wiltshire.
The aircraft was restored in TWA colours with whom it never operated. It was originally bought new by KLM in the late 1940s.
As it looked at Dublin
It had been used to ferry equipment for a Rolling Stones tour in 1973 -
As she is today -
The C-47 used in the series -
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