This is a bit of a passion project as the film brings back some good memories of my late father.
These are the first three, all flew albeit not very well or far
These are all still WIP
Picat Dubreuil
Passat Ornithopter
Santos Dumont Demoiselle
Love it - the aircraft and the film.
Would buy!
To think some of the machines used in the film are still flying at the Shuttleworth Collection… I do hope you’ll do the full list of machines Tony Hancock flew!
Surely you mean Ingrid, Marlene, Françoise, Yvette, or is it Betty?
Really looking forward to these! Out of interest are you modelling them based on their real world performances or the replicas built for the film?
A bit of both, most of the 3d models are based on the movie replicas which slightly differ from the original aircraft, performance is, well mostly guess work unless the specs are on the web.
These are the planned aircraft from the movie, which one should I do next ? ![]()
Lee-Richards Annular Biplane
Antionette
Avro Triplane
Bristol Boxkite
Blackburn Monoplane
Deperdussin Monoplane
Dixon Nipper
Eardley-Billing-Biplane
Vickers Bleriot 22
Was your father involved in making of the film?
The Dixon Nipper looks to be the most unique of them all. It looks like something out of Dr. Suess.
my choice would be the Blackburn Monoplane and the Bleriot.
I’d say any of the one’s that are still flying in R/L. Would be great if you could get the avaitar pilots to look like the movies stars! and if you could get a scenery developer ‘on board’ and do a reconstruction of the Brookley Motor Racing Track as it was portrayed in the film, including sewage farm!
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I hoping that GotFreinds come up with something that can allow us to edit the avitars a biut more… That would be awsome if a scenery dev could do something ![]()
I was reading about the film and I didnt realize that the motorbike scene was actually a real accident ! but they kept it in the movie.
My favourite lines are Sir Percy saying to Courtney, after sending out a young lady with the French Pilot:
Courtney: Oh, ho, ho - I’ll bet she’s a bit of all right, guv’nor.
Sir Percy Ware-Armitage: You should know - she’s your daughter
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Very excited for these releases, especially the Avro Triplane. Sad I’ll never get to see it fly irl but glad it will live on in the sim. Will be great to fly it around BBD’s Old Warden addon. And the rest will look right at home with the new Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome addon that just came out.
Have to say that I love your passion for these strange obscure aircraft.
Hello, from my perspective, I would love to see all of these aircraft in the simulator over the next few years :-).
I like your aircraft very much, and those unique vehicles are worth flying to honor these brave pioneers.
But I am aware of other projects that are more important to your business. Therefore, here is a rough priority list: