Just found out they're gonna use B17s.
Oh, and the dog is going to be a Collie, like Lassie, or a German Shepherd like the Littlest Hobo, or Rin Tin Tin!
And it's not in Germany, it's going to be N. Korea, or China (Three Gorges Dam would be a good one!).
And it's not going to be dams, it's going to be nuclear 'powerplants'
.
And it's not going to be at night, as it's too dark for the pilots.
So, a daylight raid to N. Korea in B17s piloted by dogs to destroy nuclear 'powerplants' *
coughs - weapons facility*, called The Dambusters. The lead dog is going to write a book called
Enemy Cats Ahead, but will be heavily censored for 60 years
@joea - I agree that the original didn't always use real a/c, and on occasion the models didn't look too realistic, but there is a certain charm about models that CGI just can't replace. I, for instance, much prefer the wonderful stop-motion of Jason and the Argonauts, or The Golden Voyage of Sinbad to much (not all) of the current crop of CGI'd films.
Much better than -
I was also about to rant that if I had a budget of some £26m (us$42m) I would probably invest in building some real a/c, but then I came across this site
http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment...for-Dambusters and found he's had ten replicas manufactured in China (so that's it then, N. Korea will be the target
). Still, to manufacture a flying replica would have been better.