Heads Up - Spitfire Programme BBC
 

Should be worth a watch - :grin:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0153yb6

Passionate flying enthusiast and broadcaster John Sergeant celebrates the 75th anniversary of the Spitfire with a TV love letter to this most British triumph of design and endeavour. The film follows the story of a Spitfire from birth to retirement and tells the stories of ordinary people with extraordinary tales.

Bump, This programme is just about to start, so stick it on BBC2 NOW!

On BBC HD , for anyone with it.

So now it's been shown, what did everyone think?

Don't get me wrong, I love any programme dedicated to Spits but;

The loveable ATA pilot got things a bit wrong about Hitler's chat with Goering, when it was (allegedly) Goering and Galland didn't she? I'm surprised they didn't shout 'cut', correct her then re-shoot.

I enjoyed it thoroughly, but some bits were a bit 'Huzzah!', if you know what I mean.;)

yaaayyy! Another "documentary" about the Spitfire! ;)

It was ok, a bit random here and there and yes, I noticed the Goering thing too lol

but still better than watching "strictly come dancing" or manure of similar quality.. good ol' aviation porn* ;)


SJ

*Aviation-porn: term introduced by the missus the X time she caught me on a warbirds website "Ah, still on your aviation porn uh?" ;)

"The loveable ATA pilot got things a bit wrong about Hitler's chat with Goering, when it was (allegedly) Goering and Galland didn't she? I'm surprised they didn't shout 'cut', correct her then re-shoot."

Well that's what happens to jokes and rumours isn't it? Someone recently posted me a joke about a wife getting home late from a girls' night out and imitating a cuckoo clock to fool the old man. It's a funny joke but I remember hearing it before, about 40 years ago, when it was the man who was getting home late.
The joke/rumour here is about one German asking a senior German for a squadron of Spitfires. Who or when isn't too important.

John Sergeant did do some jingo didn't he? Then again, he was born in 1944 so I guess he's entitled to.. I'm only five years younger than him and I have clear memories of the bombed-out buildings that were still around in the late Fifties. The attitudes of the adults were basically still very anti-German for obvious reasons and we learnt that at the parental knee. Dunkirk was a defeat turned into a victory and the Spitfire and Winston Churchill won the war - as did my dad :) I think the enthusiasm was about the iconic status of the Spit for the wartime population.

I liked that JS had been Flight-Sergeant Sergeant when he flew - it reminded me of Major Major from Catch-22.

:grin: Yep, and precisely what I said to the missus at the time.

And of course they deliberately promoted him to that rank and kept him there.;)

I dont believe John Sergeant really exists. Its just Jo Brand without the lippy.