For those of us in the UK who enjoy Top Gear I have a question.
In the background there of their track features there is an aircraft. It clearly started life as a B747 of some type but has an odd engine arrangement where the two inner pylons have something that looks like a B52 engine pod with two engines in each pod and then a tank of some sort on the two outer pods.
What is it?
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It's the plane used in filming 007 Casinò Royale, never flew and never will in that configuration ;)
What Luke said.
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Oh yea, so it is. Thanks guys. :)
btw. Top Gear 4ever! ;) The best car show...
(ps. .. I am not The Stig.. even got a t-shirt to prove it.)
I may be from across the pond in Canada, but TOP GEAR RULES ;)
I don't know if anyone has noticed over the past episodes etc but there has been a DC-3, possibly an old Junkers Ju-something and I saw a couple times a number of cessnas and whatnot. :D seems like they're no strangers to airplanes. ;D
edit: Jeremy also towed it in they're tractor episode. ;)
And don't forget the episode in which they drove cars behind a 747 with full powered engines ;D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bcArT6TaaM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bcArT6TaaM)
Being based on an active airfield does mean they see the odd plane! ;)
And I've spotted the DC-3 now and again. And of course James May is a qualified pilot.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqthC6HVWb0
this is may in his 'plane'