The Spitfire Blog
Machine Gun shooting at Castle Street Salisbury
During WW2 two German Focke Wulf 190 aeroplanes attacked Salisbury city centre. Approaching the city, they split into two directions where one of them flew over the top of the market square and went into Castle Street, flying between the...
How did the Spitfire Fairy come about?
This incredible story started with the discovery of a 90 year old gentleman called Norman Parker. For many years, Norman had been giving various talks and writing articles on the manufacture of Spitfire aeroplanes in Salisbury during World War II. Having lived in...
News of Secret Factory Barn via Panama!
A long time resident of Salisbury David Dell sent news from Panama where he now lives, that a barn hidden amongst farm cottages on the Netherhampton Road was once a Secret Spitfire factory. The barn tucked away off the main road behind farm cottages used to be part of...
Spirit of Spitfire
Talking to many experts, veteran pilots and modern RAF pilots revealed that the Focke-Wulf Fw 190 was in fact a superior warplane to the Spitfire. This revelation was a bit of a shock as well as a surprise, especially when the Spitfires...
John Glen MP’s granny was at the gasworks when attacked
Our Salisbury member of parliament John Glen MP has been a great supporter of our project from the outset. He has contributed with help, information and an interview to the film as well as put us in touch with his granny Hilda. She was a...
RAF BBMF Coningsby
Battle of Britain Memorial Flight Centre at RAF Coningsby is a special place for us as they were one of the very first to support our project of Secret Spitfires. We were pointed in their direction by Wing Commander Ryles who told us that...
Dame Vera Lynn reads the poem High Flight
Pilot Officer John Gillespie Magee Jnr. RCAF June 9, 1922 – December 11, 1941 Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth, And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth Of sun-split clouds, --and done a hundred...
Girl knows how to rivet Spitfires if her dungarees fit!
We all know that war is a terrible thing and awful things happen during major conflicts. They don't really come much bigger than World War II and what our grandparents, mums and dads had to go through to endure it. But we humans have an...
The Filmmakers
Karl Howman & Ethem Cetintas go back a long way as a production team. They have worked on numerous projects ranging from national TV advertising campaigns to corporate films and dramas. Their differing backgrounds in the industry has created a perfect,...
How to fly like a banana
Today the Spitfire seems like a simple aeroplane but even by today’s standards, it was a complicated and sophisticated killing machine, one of the most advanced planes in its day. We went to a present day factory which build, maintain and...
Norman explains Spitfire wing construction
Norman was a young assembly engineer who worked on Spitfires at High Post where the final assemblies were done along with development of the Spitfire. Here he shows us in a modern day factory how important the wing structure of the...
The production company
EthemMedia is a multimedia company which specialises in TV Adverts, Documentaries, Dramas, Corporate Promos and Digital Media. The company is owned by Ethem Cetintas, a filmmaker with over 40 years of experience in the industry. Ethem and his team of media...
They dropped a bomb on me grandad
Salisbury was attacked by Luftwaffe on numerous occasions in various ways. One such attack involved two Focke Wulf Fw 190’s where the leading one went straight to the centre of the town, terrifying the locals by flying down one of the main...
Filming at BBMF Coningsby
“We’re going to RAF Coningsby for 3 days’ filming with the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight?” Was I dreaming?” No I wasn’t, and what a life enhancing experience it was. Just approaching that famous RAF base with all its wartime...
Today’s Spitfire; the Typhoon
During WW2, the technology race between England and Germany was fierce. Germany had endless resources made available by Hitler which overwhelmed the many European nations. Luftwaffe became the vastly superior force in the air, simply; it...