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by **HHA Eng** » Sun May 15, 2011 11:12 pm

A few snaps of the filming for the BBC for the Wonders of the Universe with HHA Hunter T8B XF995

by **Dan4th** » Sun May 15, 2011 11:26 pm

HHA::::::::::::

Is there a Story which goes with those???????

If you're an insider, we'd like to Know!

Danf.

by **HHA Eng** » Sun May 15, 2011 11:50 pm

Well thats me in the last pic with Prof Cox after his flight,as Chief Eng of HHA you could say I am an insider. What do you want to know?
I posted to give a heads up just before the programme was shown in March. The story speaks for itself I think. HHA were asked to fly the Prof for the show which was flown by Dave Southward. The idea behind the flight was to take the Prof supersonic to demonstrate that the speed of sound was a barrier conquered by man relatively easily in comparison to the speed of light which is a completely different set of physics. It was a couple of long days for the filming and fitting of the six cameras and recorders. The clip on the programme was relatively short in comparison to the time taken to do the filming.

by **Xplumberlives** » Sun May 15, 2011 11:51 pm

HHA Eng wrote:Well thats me in the last pic with Prof Cox after his flight,as Chief Eng of HHA you could say I am an insider. What do you want to know?
I posted to give a heads up just before the programme was shown in March. The story speaks for itself I think. HHA were asked to fly the Prof for the show which was flown by Dave Southward. The idea behind the flight was to take the Prof supersonic to demonstrate that the speed of sound was a barrier conquered by man relatively easily in comparison to the speed of light which is a completely different set of physics. It was a couple of long days for the filming and fitting of the six cameras and recorders. The clip on the programme was relatively short in comparison to the time taken to do the filming.

Mick

That must have been when Danforth was having his sabatical!

by **Dan4th** » Mon May 16, 2011 12:36 am

Well, I think you had a great time!

I think all of us are clueless at some point,
and I had no idea about this.

I also haven't seen the program(me), being
the Slimey Murkin that I am.

I just thought it might be nice for you to
perhaps tell us a few stories about the process
and how things went.

And I hope you will........

Dan4th