He's easily the best Bond since Sean Connery, and perhaps even - well, let's not get carried away. He has effortless presence and lethal danger he brings a serious actor's ability to a fundamentally unserious part he brings out the playfulness and the absurdity, yet never sends it up. Daniel Craig is a fantastic Bond, and all those whingers and nay-sayers out there in the blogosphere should hang their heads in shame.Ĭraig was inspired casting.

Now he has taken on the mantle of 007, and the result is a death-defying, sportscar-driving, female-back-fondling, cocktail-recipe-specifying triumph. But that's enough about his performance as Ted Hughes. In 2008 it featured in an episode of Scrapheap Challenge in which contestants created machines to tow the aircraft.The airfield also found use when filming several scenes inside a plane for Come Fly with Me, starring Matt Lucas and David Walliams.On the big screen, Daniel Craig has shown himself fully capable of taking on a British icon: a man of cool, cruel determination, mesmerising sex appeal and a fatally destructive way with women. It was also towed by a Volkswagen Touareg in a 2006 Top Gear episode, the same year that the modified aircraft and Dunsfold Airfield were featured in a television advertisement filmed for the Volkswagen Touareg, demonstrating the vehicle’s towing ability. The aircraft is not flyable at the present moment.The aircraft has also appeared in the background of numerous Science in Action and Top Gear episodes and directly in an episode where it is towed by a JCB Fastrac tractor. Dummy drop tanks have been fitted where the outer engines would normally be fitted. Some of the scenes set at Miami International Airport were filmed at Dunsfold.Modifications to the aircraft include the removal of the normal Rolls Royce engines in separate nacelles and replacement with a single nacelle on each wing with two engines, similar to those fitted to aircraft such as the B-52 Stratofortress. It was modified and used for filming for the 2006 James Bond film Casino Royale. Good Afternoon all! This is an old report that I have never posted but I am slowly going through all my pictures and seeing what ones I haven't done and now posting them! Hope you enjoy the pictures!Ī Boeing 747-200 which served with British Airways until 2002 as City of Birmingham, G-BDXJ, was purchased by a Film Company specialising in supplying aircraft for television and film work, and transferred to Dunsfold.

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