Heads Up - Spitfire Programme BBC

[lensman1945]

Should be worth a watch -

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.

[Robotic Pope]

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

[tanker 21]

On BBC HD , for anyone with it.

[ATAG_Dutch]

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.

[Sternjaeger II]

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?"

[brando]

"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.

[ATAG_Dutch]

Originally Posted by brando

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

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.

[whoarmongar]

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