Types of fighter airplanes
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Mrs. Miniver
mr-chris-newman — 16 years ago(December 07, 2009 02:33 AM)
They don't sound like Spitfires and I doubt the UK Government would have too many spares to lend Hollywood so I guess their American ones with English marking added. Anyone have any more info about this?
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Piafredux — 16 years ago(December 19, 2009 08:20 PM)
All of the British fighters in 'Mrs. Miniver' are Supermarine Spitfires, shown in one actual newsreel takeoff shot and in other instances by miniature models and one full-size prop mock-up. The only exception may be in the single, brief combat scene in which two models on wires criss-cross the screen - one of these mdoels may have been of a Hurricane (I just watched the film on TV and this combat shot was so brief that I hadn't time to fix recognition of either one, or the other, of the two aircraft models).
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grantss — 11 years ago(April 23, 2014 04:18 AM)
Yep, the shot of fighters taking off looked like Spitfires to me.
The plane that crashed near the car Greer Garson and Teresa Wright were in looked like a Messerschmitt Bf 110.
I was surprised when Teresa Wright said that she thought that was Vin's plane, as it was clearly a 2-engine plane and he would be flying a Spitfire or Hurricane, single-engine fighters. She didn't know much about what he flew, I guess, which is understandable.
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