Christmas Ghost Plane Film

[ian_]

Festive new film, true 8th AF story.

View: https://youtu.be/koeoCmePQx0?feature=shared

 

[Airframes]

Watched that via e-mail newsletter from Wingleader - interesting and well produced.

 

[ian_]

Watched that via e-mail newsletter from Wingleader - interesting and well produced.

Thanks! There may well be follow up with a bit more detail.

 

[BC1]

Wonderful CGI in this one, and unlike some YT posts this sticks pretty much to the facts. Pity they didn't show the dead cows the B-24 killed as it crash-landed, but hey - got to consider how that might traumatise YT viewers and animal loving vegans. Also Ivor described how two of the engines bounced some distance from the crash site. Crash site was at Vowchurch, Herefordshire, England. One publication says "reposing in a Welsh marsh intact" and the best one was the Squadron Diary entry which says "...continued flying on auto-pilot until it ran out of gas and crashed in Wales, England."

 

[Gnomey]

Good one!

 

[ian_]

Wonderful CGI in this one, and unlike some YT posts this sticks pretty much to the facts. Pity they didn't show the dead cows the B-24 killed as it crash-landed, but hey - got to consider how that might traumatise YT viewers and animal loving vegans. Also Ivor described how two of the engines bounced some distance from the crash site. Crash site was at Vowchurch, Herefordshire, England. One publication says "reposing in a Welsh marsh intact" and the best one was the Squadron Diary entry which says "...continued flying on auto-pilot until it ran out of gas and crashed in Wales, England."

The engines were a bit more broken! Cylinder head dug up by Ivor when he was replacing fence posts.