Chitty Bang Bang (airship) Chitty Bang Bang (airship) Chitty Bang Bang was an airship built for the 1968 film "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang". It was intended to represent the airship of Baron Bomburst of Vulgaria. Although fictional in inspiration, it was a fully functional flying airship. Vulgaria, and the airship, is drawn from Roald Dahl's screenplay for the film, rather than Ian Fleming's original book. The semi-rigid airship, whose appearance was designed by Ken Adam, was an approximate replica of a 1904 Lebaudy airship. The envelope was symmetrical fore-and-aft and short and deep compared to typical rigid airships, with pointed ends above the centre
Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow barony of 1792 according to the special remainder by his nephew Edward, who was the eldest son of the first baron's brother, Right Reverend Thomas Thurlow, Bishop of Durham. Thurlow appears as a character in Alan Bennett's play "The Madness of George III" and the subsequent film adaptation, in which he was played by John Wood. Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow, PC, KC (9 December 173112 September 1806) was a British lawyer and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1765 to 1778 when he was raised to the peerage as Baron