Nik Coleman

One day I'll tell the back story to some of the filming with Peter Bruggemann. Talented, clever and unintentional funny.

You see, no one ever expects the Director of the series to turn up in the discussion thread do they. Do you know how much licensing archive costs lol, it would be much cheaper to use all new footage I can assure you!, but we have to make these programmes for broadcasters who have a broad market audience, so they have material in there for context, not for padding. I hope you'll like series 2, it's mostly filmed in the USA and does indeed have a bunch of cockpit footage, oh and a P51C / F16 two ship. And a B17, B24, B25, B29 and a Lanc...

Hi Folks, the whole series can be had FREE for a month! Watch Plane Resurrection: P-51 Mustang at CuriosityStream. Please spread then link far and wide! Cheers Nik

Not as disappointed as he is David! - he’s still building it lol. Caught us out tbh, did you mean you watched the actual transmission version? - or one of the download links. I guess you mean the transmission version. The private download version shows him ‘flying’ his plane - it was all set up (but we used the visuals of the other aircraft) while we awaited his build to finish. Fair play, he is (spoiler warning) a surgeon and the Health Service has been under pressure so he has put work first. We went to the airfield for a late September shoot - walked in the hangar, saw it had no wings and went ‘oh oh…..’ Desperate scramble then to write a different ending to the episode. Kind of funny now…. but not then as we’d just had to scrap the 109 episode because the owners were in dispute with each other…. Did he come over as slightly bonkers, the irony of the German building the plane in England? He's just a lovely bloke and the plane is brilliant. Cheers Nik

Blush. Thank you. It's only a six part, I think Triplane has just transmitted with you last night - rather eccentric I'd love feedback - a German building a dreidecker in the UK! We've been making it for two years and we are thrilled that History Channel took it. We are desperate to keep it honest and original - not 'reality' with silly false drama, and we are part of the warbird community here so we do our very best to keep it spot on. Hurricane - next weeks episode - was a delight. When we filmed the end sequence of Ep1 with my long time friend Maurice Hammond, plus Rob Davies, they bothe came down, did a 300mph 50ft pass on the runway, and my cameraman remarked ' my god, we get paid for this too!' All you Australians will enjoy I hope Ep6, with the Edgar percival story - and SPOILER ALERT - his part in helping DeGaulle escape the Nazis!

I am that man. It's my series, I hope everyone enjoys it - especially episode six, all about, or at least partially about, Edgar Percival. Happy to answer any questions, or find me on Facebook.