Red Baron movie..........

[Accept2]

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7825040794550760281&q=red+baron+2008&total=5&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0

Its great that it isnt an American movie..........

[fraser]

looks awesome man- america always fekks up good movies- like that flyboys thing, or the gawdawful pearl harbour- you know they wrecked one of the few still flying me109s filming pearl harbour- i remember showing my dad the article, and he said "how in the hell can the fekk up a 109 filming a movie about pearl harbour?" lol- exactly what i thought until i saw the movie. stupid.
but im all for aerial combat in piston engine planes:smile:
looks like they got the plane right even! richtofen favoured the albatross , and rarely flew the triplane hes always pictured flying- hermann goering, who took over the staffel when richtofen died, flew the triplane. then he became a big gay heroin addict in charge of the luftwaffe lol.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7744185304062362114

[allthumbs56]

Trailers look cool - but I somehow suspect that those computer-generated aerobatics would have ripped the wings off the real planes. They seem to be flying more like F16s.

[fraser]

ya they have to make it a bit more exiting for the people watching-
but those ww1 planes where highly manoeverable, youd be really surprised at what they could do- and they were not really moving very fast. the wings would sometimes come off tho-
i did some work on flight modelling ww2 planes for simulators, and i know some guys who work on ww1 types- they are factoring in every aspect of the plane and how it reacts to gravity and g forces- and have been for years-its getting pretty accurate.

[Tarl]

I have been obsessed with WW1 aircraft since I was a kid. Built models ,read books, played games and watched the few movies made (good and bad) about the subject. The dogfights look somewhat over the top but heh, it's a movie. IMO the best WW1 aircraft film to date has to be The Blue Max with George Peppard....anyone remember it? The Howard Hughes film Hell's Angels (1930) actually had real planes and pilots from the war doing the flying.

[fraser]

I have been obsessed with WW1 aircraft since I was a kid. Built models ,read books, played games and watched the few movies made (good and bad) about the subject. The dogfights look somewhat over the top but heh, it's a movie. IMO the best WW1 aircraft film to date has to be The Blue Max with George Peppard....anyone remember it? The Howard Hughes film Hell's Angels (1930) actually had real planes and pilots from the war doing the flying.

yup i agree- the blue max is excellent- ive got both those movies here