Aden, on Netflix, vc10, Vulcan Lightning ..
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In the first few minutes there is VC10 action, a squadron of Lightnings, and, and, a Vulcan ... (in Aden? hmmm).
I said to Mrs A I said, that’s all very well, but will there be wooden-furnitured SLRs? - she had no idea what I was muttering about - and, and, next minute - a wooden furnitured SLR!
So for a fix of 1960s British military goodness it is pretty good.
In planes thread not TV thread as it is about the planes. And rifles. And land rovers.
I said to Mrs A I said, that’s all very well, but will there be wooden-furnitured SLRs? - she had no idea what I was muttering about - and, and, next minute - a wooden furnitured SLR!
So for a fix of 1960s British military goodness it is pretty good.
In planes thread not TV thread as it is about the planes. And rifles. And land rovers.
I was wondering what the thread was about. I was thinking it might be referring to a documentary or something factual.
When "The Last Post" was first shown on BBC a few years ago, there were some comments on PH back then on the various inaccuracies. I seem to remember some comment about a rather slopilly CGI'd BOAC VC-10.
I never watched the series myself.
When "The Last Post" was first shown on BBC a few years ago, there were some comments on PH back then on the various inaccuracies. I seem to remember some comment about a rather slopilly CGI'd BOAC VC-10.
I never watched the series myself.
Ayahuasca said:
Hard-Drive said:
Sounds good, is the programme “The Last Post”?
Yes, it is. I didn't see it, but I know they did a lot of filming at Duxford where they used the VC10, and its possible that other Duxford exhibits Lightning, Vulcan, Victor etc) were in the background??
aeropilot said:
Ayahuasca said:
Hard-Drive said:
Sounds good, is the programme “The Last Post”?
Yes, it is. I didn't see it, but I know they did a lot of filming at Duxford where they used the VC10, and its possible that other Duxford exhibits Lightning, Vulcan, Victor etc) were in the background??
The Lightnings were lined up.
The VC10 looked pretty good to me.
The background is blazing sunshine and apparently filmed in South Africa.
Eric Mc said:
Did BOAC even carry out trooping flights into places like Aden in the mid 1960s?
Pretty sure they didn't.But then, TV/film makers are not interested in accuracy, as they don't believe the vast majority of the people that watch are either.
As you say, it would RAF Transport Command or possibly charter airlines, but in those days Transport Command was big enough to move the size of the forces that were deployed at the time, that didn't go by troopship/RN.
velocemitch said:
Recently read an autobiography of an SAS man, he fought in Aden and I’m pretty sure he mentioned travelling on a VC10. Could be mixing it up with other deployments though.
That's slightly different though.Back then in the days before high security at airports, the SAS teams would deploy on scheduled airlines, in civvies and carrying their kit and weapons in their luggage so as not to be seen arriving via RAF.
I've got a write up somewhere with colour photos, of a team deployment to the Radfan in the early days of the problems in that area, and it mentions them doing exactly that. That's why the armoury at Hereford contained a large store of WW2 German MP40 machine-pistols right into the early 70's, as with the folding stock they easily fitted into a suitcase. One of the photo's showed a SAS trooper sitting in part kit/part civvies on a hilltop cradling his MP40.
Ayahuasca said:
Grrrrrrrrrr...........absolute pet hate time, when any MP38 or MP40 is referred to as a 'Schmeisser'...........
Hugo Schmeisser had absolutely nothing to do with the design, and his company wasn't even one of the contracted manufacturers of them.
The only connection was the magazine being a left over design from the WW1 era MP18 that he did design, and thus was the only 'name' the allies knew as a 'designer' of German SMG's.
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