Everyone Held Their Breath.... by debbielove

Photography • Aviation • posted on Jul 04, 2016

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Military Pageant, Shuttleworth... Finally, the weather behaved.. This machine was built by the Hampshire Aeroplane Club at Eastleigh, Southampton for the film, Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines (1965). In the film the aircraft comes to grief in a railway tunnel in France. In reality this sequence was filmed close to Old Warden! It is powered by an upright 4 cylinder inline Cirrus Hermes engine which is of a similar configuration to the original’s 35hp Green. The Shuttleworth Collection was closely involved with the making of the film and as this reproduction is largely true to the original, of considerable technical interest and an impressive flyer, the Trustees decided in 1966 that it was worth acquiring. Like other Collection aircraft of its era it is flown sedately and only in calm weather. There is an original, earlier type, Roe Triplane in the Science Museum.) A thing of clattering beauty (I think) lol More if you wish folks? Rob

Comments (9)

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giulband

7:35AM | Mon, 04 July 2016

WOW !!! Wonderful shot and vehicle !!!!

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radioham Online Now!

9:06AM | Mon, 04 July 2016

He dose not have a lot of rain cover he could get wet

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Faemike55

9:09AM | Mon, 04 July 2016

that would be a blast to fly in! cool capture

Tamarrion

1:06PM | Mon, 04 July 2016

Great shot! Shuttleworth is rather high on my "bucket list".

Interesting how things change. Back then, they were "Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines". Today they'd be called "Those Crazy Fools in their Flying Death Traps"... and wouldn't be allowed to fly at all.

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T.Rex

2:36PM | Mon, 04 July 2016

Thanks for the photo and the remarks about the film. I recall seeing the film in Lausanne, Switzerland (spent a year there) and wondering what really happened to the real plane. I so enjoyed Sir Percival "cheat" comment on seeing his de-winged plane - "Oooh, BLAST!" I can imagine today's authorities stopping anything. But please ignore them (remember, BREXIT, EU has no more say in the matter) and post more of these fantastic flying machines. :-)

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