Little Nellie 007
Little Nellie 007 is a book by Bruce Barrymore Halpenny about the James Bond autogyro, Little Nellie as featured in the film You Only Live Twice and her "father", Wing Commander Retd. Ken Wallis.
The book known to James Bond fans, and also used as a reference book for other Bond books gives a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the film as well as providing all the location shoots for the film and also a brief history of aviation legend, Ken Wallis himself. Halpenny and Wallis are friends and both ex-Royal Air Force.
The book briefly delves into Ken Wallis’s early family connections with aviation, then onto his own World War II exploits first as an operational pilot in the Army Co-operation Command flying Lysanders and then as an operational captain of Wellington bombers. Finally the reader is brought to Wallis’s post war activities and early stunt filming in Brazil, and Italy.
The book then gives the behind the scenes information about Little Nellie herself, a Wallis WA-116 Agile, and the filming.
