Sorry for the quality of the pics, several of which were from old slides..
On 5th August 1966 Frank Sinatra used Brantly G-ASXF to arrive at Blackbushe prior to filming work locally. We were told in advance not to disturb him in the morning but, if filming went OK, he would be happy to chat prior to departure. He was quite chatty and happy for me to take this picture. The Camberley News got to hear and asked for my pic for the front page. By way of "reward" they developed my film!
F-BKUF; picture taken by my beloved wife Ruth on 5th September 1966
G-AGTM 25th June 1966
Below is the "Proctuka", a Proctor (G-AIEY) converted to resemble a Stuka for filming. This pic was of the aircraft refuelling prior to a first flight in late 1966. More information available via Google. The following was provided to me sometime ago by someone nam "Paul"; I do not know his surname:
Here's a snip from a book by Robert Rudhall where Viv Belamy discusses
the Proctukas.
"I bought three complete Proctors, plus a dismantled aiframe for spares
and converted two into Stuka lookalikes. By altering the fuselage,
taking out the four seat cabin and making the glasshouse style cockpit
canopy to fit what we had left, we had a basic Stuka looking fuselage.
I then took the wings off and altered the centre-section of the wing to
resemble the inverted gull-wing configuration, which the Stuka was well
known for.
The un-altered outer wing sections were then bolted back onto the
centre section. We put a larger engine in the airframeand modified the
fin, rudder and tailplane to have that angular look. I thought that
with the bigger engine and the larger control surfaces at the rear of
the aircraft, it should fly pretty well, but in reality it was bloody
awful. The one aircraft, which we actually flew for around five hours
before the project got the chop, wallowed about all the time and we
could not actually carry out the near vertical dives which were the
trademark of the Ju87. In reality we could have carried out the dives,
but the wings would have come off when we pulled up after releasing the
bombs, which was hardly a practical proposition at all. So my scale
Stuka was not used."
G-ATSV Cessna 310C 4th October 1966