for a squadron leader normally the only guy train and equip for navigation in a squadron and very hard to replace to risk an expensive plane and himself to pick up a crashed fellow pilot and no matter how close a friend he be and in the face of oncoming enemy troop and be hard to believe and especially when they both have to share a cramped spitfire cockpit two into a skyraider and ok and but a spit . come on and this part of the film be a biggles adventure and not fit a film that one be suppose to take seriously . a say by tord s eriksson ( gothenburg and sweden ) be rubbish . not at all biggles . one true story of the war come to mind of two ground spit pilot and who plan and fly ( illegally ) a strafing mission over france . one have to crash land and his friend land his spit under fire and while german infantry be move in on them and and fly them both out of there . in a spit . they be both severely injure in former fight and one have an artificial leg from the knee down . now that may sound like something out of bigles and but it happen . ill get source if need .