The blockbuster film ‘The King’s Speech’ contains two massive continuity errors, and only really sad geeky people would notice them.<\/p>\n
That would include me.<\/p>\n
Within the first 15 minutes, we see a yellow de Havilland DH 82 Tiger Moth (‘A’ variant) land in the grounds of the royal estate at Sandringham.<\/p>\n
The ICAO country-based registration painted large down the side of the fuselage identifies the aircraft as G-ANFM.<\/p>\n
Straight away I’m knocked off balance because something is very, very wrong here. I remain slightly-off balance for the rest of the film.<\/p>\n
When I get home I check the aviation database to find that G-ANFM rolled off the production line in 1942.<\/p>\n
And yet, at that point of the film, Edward VIII hasn’t even taken the throne, let alone abdicated – his abdication coming, as it did, in 1936.<\/p>\n
So we have a pivotal character flying an aircraft – G-ANFM – before it was made.<\/p>\n
But the continuity errors don’t end there.<\/p>\n
G-ANFM is owned by and registered to three trustees of the Reading Flying Group.<\/p>\n
So you might have thought that the owners of G-ANFM would have known that the country-based aircraft registration scheme, which the aircraft G-ANFM is plainly registered under – didn’t come in to being until Article 20 of the Chicago Convention on International Civil Aviation (which was signed in 1944), was introduced.<\/p>\n
Also, it’s worth pointing out that Article 20 only applied to larger commercial aircraft.<\/p>\n
Under Article 20, a Tiger Moth would have been exempt, at that stage of the legislative maturity.<\/p>\n
It’s such a shame that an otherwise outstanding film suffered because of poor historical detail.<\/p>\n The blockbuster film ‘The King’s Speech’ contains two massive continuity errors, and only really sad geeky people would notice them. That would include me. Within<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}