Castles in the Sky

Castles in the Sky DVD cover.

Movie (2014)

Starring:
Eddie Izzard (Robert Watson-Watt)
Laura Fraser (Margaret Watson-Watt)
Alex Jennings (Henry Tizard)
Tim McInnerny (Winston Churchill)

Eddie Izzard stars in this funny, moving and inspiring factual drama about the pioneering work on radar by a little known team of scientists in the run up to the Second World War.

Unidentified Aircraft

Arado Ar 68 shares a close shape with the Heinkel He 51. Main difference at distance was the tail -here hard to see correctly due to the angle and overprint with red and mathematical formulas-.

Seen at 41 minutes, Chruchill is watching news footage about a Nuremberg Rally with this Swatiska flypast done by biplanes : Arado Ar 68s or less likely Heinkel He 51s ? Same dilemna. Online archive footages don't help to choose.

Junkers Ju 87A Stuka

From a TOP SECRET Intelligence Summary read in 1935 at Whitehall.
The Junkers Ju 87 Stuka made its maiden flight at Fall of 1935 and reach operational units in 1936, so this one camouflaged is slighty anachronistic.

Messerschmitt Bf 109E

Anachronistic : Bf 109E left the drawing board at the end of 1938.

Junkers Ju 90

Assembly line of the Junkers Ju 90, not before 1937.

Heinkel He 111 V4

Registration D-AHAO, W.Nr. 1968. The fourth prototype of the Heinkel He 111, named Dresden flew in September 1935.

Messerschmitt Bf 109 G-2

This is a modern photo of the Messerschmitt Bf 109 on display at Militärhistorisches Museum Flugplatz Berlin-Gatow, with their DFS 230 glider KA+1-52 behind.
Reportedly this was originally a Spanish license-built HA-1109-K1L that was later rebuilt as a Bf 109 G-2. It is painted as one of German ace Gustav Rödel's planes.
Of course not possible in 1935, especially with 30 victories ! The next picture is a bird's-eye view of the workshops producing Junkers Ju 88 fuselages.

Junkers Ju 87 G Stuka

Picture probably from 1944, not 1935.

De Havilland DH.89A Dragon Rapide

Reg. G-AKIF De Havilland DH.89A Dragon Rapide c/n 6838 built in 1944.
This aircraft is now full blue with two thin white stripes. The full registration is always visible on the lower surface and a RAF roundel has just being applied over -AK to resemble a requisitioned aircraft.
Former registrations were LN-BEZ and NR750. Same aircraft in other works at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft (Civil Fixed-Wing).

Messerschmitt Bf 109

Messerschmitt Bf 109 B.

Messerschmitt Bf 109 C.

Same footage at Frequently Seen Aircraft (Military Fixed-Wing). Here seen at the time of Nuremberg rallies (1933 through 1938).

Junkers Ju 52/3m

Famous footage of a Junkers Ju 52/3m landing at Fornebu airport (Olso, Noway) on 9 April 1940. Anachronistic as at this stage of the story, the scenario is a long way from that date.
Same aircraft in other movies at Frequently Seen Aircraft (Military Fixed-Wing).

Focke-Wulf Fw 56 Stösser

Heinkel He 111 (H or P)

Unidentified Aircraft

Caproni Ca.133 ?

Heinkel He 111 ?

Junkers Ju 87 B Stuka

Same footage at Frequently Seen Aircraft (Military Fixed-Wing).

Avro Anson Mk I

Registration ZK-RRA, c/n MH-120 built in 1943. Painted with RAF Coastal Command camouflage as K6183, code VX-B. Kept airworthy by R&R Aviation in New Zealand.

de Havilland DH98 Mosquito FB Mk 26

Despite put among the Avro Anson Mk I footage, the (light) grey spinner and one-piece windshield are from a Mosquito FB Mk 26 serial KA114. Read the Discussion Tab for evidence !