I had to wait endlessly in hospital this morning and luckiliy the TV was on the History Channel....

They showed a great documentary about P51s in the ETO in WW2 and it featured a restored Mustang Miss Helen....
It was shot with collectors/re-enactors portraying pilots and groundcrews....

Guess who was crew chief of the bird.... Yes, our very own '517th'....

Nice job...!!

Anyone else seen him in action???


Johan

That first sentence seems a bit scary! Hope all is O.K.?

Yes, no problem, I was there for a scheduled check-up...
Thanks for asking...

Hi Johan. Yes, he's a man of many faces...pilot, tanker, airborne....etc. You name it, he's re-enacted it!

Ian

Johan: Hope you enjoyed the documentary, i really enjoyed being a part of it.
Was very lucky to be involved with several documentaries that were done for the History Channel following the Mission Berlin doc. that was mentioned earlier on My Collection post.......517TH

Yes, enjoyed it very much...!

When was it filmed?

I think it was around 1999/2000.......517th

Good job 517th! I'll have to try and have a look

That particular episode on the P-51 was excellent. HC is always a mix up but they really did well on that one.

Funny, my ex-wife used to call it the Hitler Channel partly because of all the WW2 shows.

Where did they do the filming at? And goo show 517th, as my main impression and research is into the ground crews you did a good job.

Scott

Found a P-51 survivors page which contained a article about "Miss Helen"

http://www.mustangsmustangs.net/p-51/survi.../44-72216.shtml

Pretty interesting history behind this bird

Hi Scott: Thanks for comments, i think my backround as a mechanical engineer served me well for the filming.The filming was done in the U.K. at the owners private air strip. If you read the above link it gives the aircrafts history. It shows that in 2000 it was returned to its original color scheme as Miss Helen, it was just after the paint job that the filming was done.........517th