How they made Piece of cake
Maker and role
Robert Eagle, Author
Herbie Knott, Author
Production date
1988
Object detail
Accession number
15-1304
Maker
Description
"Piece of Cake is one of the most ambitious drama productions ever made for television. In this book, Robert Eagle explains how the series was made, the use of real and replica aeroplanes, the recreation of wartime airfields. Aviation writers describe the planes used at the time: Spitfires, Messerschmitts, Heinkels and Rapides and how some of them have survived. Pilots describe what it is like to fly these planes now. There are first hand accounts from pilots who fought in the Battle of France and the Battle of Britain. This book is illustrated with over 1-- outstanding colour and black and white photographs by award-winning photographer Herbie Knott." - back cover.
Firing up: the beginnings of piece of cake / why I wrote piece of cake / tactics, skills and hardware: the lessons learnt in the first year of war / fighting machines: the aircraft they fought in / setting the scene: how the aircraft and locations were found / action! how piece of cake was filmed / flying the messerschmitt me 109 / flying the spitfire / cast / an airman's ecstasy / acknowledgments
Firing up: the beginnings of piece of cake / why I wrote piece of cake / tactics, skills and hardware: the lessons learnt in the first year of war / fighting machines: the aircraft they fought in / setting the scene: how the aircraft and locations were found / action! how piece of cake was filmed / flying the messerschmitt me 109 / flying the spitfire / cast / an airman's ecstasy / acknowledgments
Media/Materials
Physical description
120 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), portraits ; 27 cm
ISBN/ISSN
1852832398
9781852832391
9781852832391
Collection
Credit line
Robert Eagle et al. 1988. How they made Piece of cake, 15-1304. Walsh Memorial Library, The Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT).
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