WingCommander Cecil Carpenter

Wing Commander Cecil Carpenter is in the pilot seat "as completely at home in his environment as the most contented oyster in its shell in Whitstable Bay" (extract from the novel). He absolutely loves to show his great skill, dearly driving other people nuts from his total, seemingly, non-engagement in the fire he playes with.

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Name Cecil Carpenter
Rank WingCommander
Nationality British
Role description Small role
First appearance 00:02:46 (In the airplane)
Actor Vincent Ball

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Vincent Ball is good as Wing Commander Carpenter, but he doesn't get to show much of Carpenter's "until I'm dead, I'm the best and I will prove it to you"-attitude, only in the scene mentioned below (and if you use your imagination, maybe in the scene with our favorite line). And without it, the picture loses much of the humor of the novel. Maybe that was the reason to cut down on Carpenter's appearances, and in any case it's not Vincent Ball's fault.

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Carpenter steering the plane calmly and methodically, with cracks from bullets visible in the side window, his expression relaxed and whistling.

The plane leaves the Oberhausen airfield. Bullets destroy the left window of the cockpit, Carpenter shys away a little. Starts whisteling, and steers the plane towards London...

Favourite line

Turner sitting with Carpenter, discussing whether they will arrive in time, with Turner looking worried and Carpenter confident.

Colonel Wyatt Turner: 25 minutes. Can we make it?

WingComm, er Cecil Carpenter: We can make it. But I do wonder: can they?

Colonel Wyatt Turner: God knows.

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