Flyboys

[Mush Martin]

Originally Posted by Platapus

Wings and Hell's Angels are two excellent WWI fighter movies.

I liked the movie Flyboys. The structural strength of the Dr.1 was overstated. It was a very maneuverable plane but only at low speeds. Diving at high speeds and then pulling up would result in transforming the Triplane into a Biplane with the resulting increase in vertical velosity.

And of course how the movie ended (the last battle) was hard to take. That would have been an almost impossible single shot, but made for a nice movie.

It is good to see movies about WWI. It is soon to be a totally forgotten war


Many of the warplanes in WWI had specalized moves that gave then an advantage. The key to survival was to knowing what your plane could do better than the other plane and prevent the other plane from doing what it does best.

I did like the explaination of why they wore silk scarves. That was nice.

Has anyone seen the film "the kid who could not miss"? It is about Billy Bishop and I sure would like to get a copy of it.

I for one would Love to see someone put the time and money
into either Coronel and The Falklands or more importantly
Jutland which would really really make good film lots o steel
lots O Big Big Badabooms and some witty dialogue to boot.
MM