Spitfire 'to go' [done]...next up Fairey Gannet

[delticbob]

Channel Five, tonight, 8.00pm 'Monster Moves'

Classic aircraft collector buys Spitfire at Duxford & ships it home to Maryland.

Bob

[Garry Russell]

Hi Bob

If that's the one I'm thinking of and was on a few months back, it's well worth watching

Thanks for the HU

[Dev One]

My father took to bits SL721 ( a Mk XVI) at B/bushe, packed it up sent it to Phoenix & rebuilt it there in '78 for Woodson K Woods, so not the first Spit sent that way! Have pictures of using a fork lift truck & bed matresses to instal wings...
SL721 I believe now in Canada.
Keith

[AndyG]

Oh dear, I lasted 10 minutes, and then the inaccuracies got too much for me - I knew it would be a problem when they talked about the "rare World War I Tiger Moth".

[DarrenL]

Narrator is dim, "irreparably damaged" if the wing tip hits the crate...obviously never heard of restoration.

Other than that, the buyer already has a Spitfire, 2 is being greedy.

And I don't believe all the "American hose connection parts don't fit the Spit" rubbish as what do they use on the other Spit parked in the hangar or even the Tiger Moth he has?

[delticbob]

Narrator is dim,

Go on, tell it as it is

Bob

[Garry Russell]

Doesn't sound like the same programme as I saw a while back

[cstorey]

Oh, it was awful . Typical television rubbish , with every small inherent risk ( inherent in any removal ) over-dramatised into world -changing cataclysmic possibilities . Like a previous poster, i turned it off at one point, but then came back to it because there was nothing else to watch!

[DaveB]

Channel 5 are very good at the over-dramatisation bit as anyone who's watched Ice Road Truckers will know. This has even crept into the series on Eddie Stobbart The way the narrator described the job of a fuel tanker driver was almost as if he was carrying a load of sweaty dynamite rather than diesel Pure Pony but often, all that's watchable

ATB
DaveB

[Paul K]

How do you over dramatize Eddie Stobart ? In fact, how do you dramatize Eddie Stobart at all ??