@ejlister The British flew modified Belgian S4B "Stampes". The German flew a Fokker E-1 "Eindekker" copy and a Finnish Valmet "Viima". In some scenes even a De Havilland "Tiger Moth" and a Bücker "Jungmann" can be seen. All but the Fokker were from the 30's. Many scenes are borrowed from "The Blue Max". Also models are used in some scenes.
all that killing just because some bastards as the Illuminati said go kill each other who also blew up the world trade centers & blamed It on Muslims
@darkmossie633 As far as I know Muslims had Nothing to do with 1914-1918 war, It had to do with fools that worshipped kings (see My video the king Song what a king worshipper Is) Instead of Yahweh called God. Also science proves September 11 2001 was cause by controlled demolition Google 911 Blueprint for truth.
Bücker Jungmeisters "dressed up" as SE5as, an in-between wars twin-seater German trainer (which name I just can´t recall right now), a DH.82 Tiger Moth and another Jungmeiter playing random German WWI fighters, images taken from the movie "Brown-vs-Richtoffen", pilots wearing cotton gloves (not visible here, but I remember that there were)... Certainly not my favourite WWI movie, I´m afraid...
Great fight scene. I see that 1983's High Road To China borrowed some footage from this film. Speaking of.. The S.E.5's look like a Stampe in disguise. Sound like them too. The Stampe is sweat looking plane, but definantly not WWI era. This still beats FlyBoys. That film (along with Pearl Harbor) relied too heavily on revisionist history, CGI, and were peppered too much with political correctness.
i remember a dogfight in a movie like this when suddenly one of the planes guns jams and he tried with a hammer to unjammed it and the other pilot salute him knowing he cannot fire anymore...anyone who nows the movie name?
@majoroadw0rks Much Better Than This Sick Movie No Gun Firing Smoke A Little Fire When The Gun Attack The Airplane Engine Sound Like Video Game And The Gun Sound Like A Toy Gun ._. And Bad Flying Tactic The PILOT DONT EVEN REACT WHEN Gun Attack Them !
@xazoulini1 Not sure of the movie but Robert Redford's character tells a similar story in The Great Waldo Pepper. Great movie by the way if you haven't seen it.
I would rather be in a S.E.5a ,a Bristol Fighter or the harder to control Sopwith Camel. since unlike some of the German aircraft they did not break up in a dive and where slightly faster.
@JRussoBuffaloNY the Lewis gun is on the top wing while the Vickers is the one mounted in front of the pilot. The Lewis could be brought down in front of the pilot to be re-loaded or to shoot from under neath an enemy aircraft.
@oddball24sco ok ok,I would certainly not enjoy re-loading the pos lewis gun upon my upper wing on the track mount. I would rather be in an early Albatros,Dr.1 or DVII. or maybe even an Eindecker with 3 MG14's.danke
@JRussoBuffaloNY The twin guns on the deck of the German designs were more efficient. It would seem the gun configuration of the SE5a was a glaring WTF. At that point, aircraft designers didn't know how their aircraft would be used.
@ahz123 I see, I understand how the lewis would be beneficial firing from below an opponent. As you know some pilots had their own preferences incorporated into their personal aeroplanes, I would have had 2 forward firing vickers, I think it would be difficult to direct a craft & then direct & guide a second object. with traverse,elevation turbulence etc, to be considered.
This movie is called "Aces High" and is just fantastic. It is very hard to come by these days. In my humble opinion (combined with "Hells Angels") this is the greatest WW I movie ever made. The silly American attempt at "FlyBoys" (mixture of Soap and Re-eductional Political Pseudo History) and the German "Red Barron" ("Soap Drama" focusing on the heroe's mental struggles, romance, dreaming etc.) pale in comparison. Excuse the poor 1970ties trick photography, planes etc. They did what they could
@Hundedox I'd actually prefer the Soap Drama over Aces high still. Plus the few air battles on The Red Baron were quite nice, if not a few wtf scenes in aircraft performance, it showed the air war in a scale not seen since Howard Hughes Hell's Angels. I give The Red Baron a lot of credit for that. Plus the mental struggle is the most important part when it comes to an air war in my opinion, life as a pilot was an emotional rollicoaster.
I've heard this is a very good movie, but the continuity with the editing is really bad. Most of the planes are definitely post WW1- and there are scenes where the cockpit shots don't match the external view of the plane. I could also see some scenes plucked out of "The Blue Max". "It takes 20 years to make a man, it takes 20 seconds to destroy him".
Thank for this dog fights! i love them! ;] it's movie of my childhood :D i'm also so glad that i could see full scene of burning pilot. THANK A LOT. Salut from poland ;]
Do Vickers machine guns really sound like teletype machines... at least they used real planes here. I wonder if anyone will ever make a realistic WW1 dogfight movie, because everything I see... is just.. no.. fail.
Well, I have photographs of both Stieglitzes and Viimas as well as a copy of the movie. I also have an aviation magazine with an article written by the late stunt pilot Neil Williams, where he clearly states that the red "German" biplane was a Viima, and one of the planes he flew for the movie.
Fair enough, I'm probably thinking back to a discussion I had with someone a long time back, and we DID think it was a Stieglitz then.
However, I'm right on the rest of the planes. I've personally seen the Eindekker and one of the Stampes used (the Stampe also turned up in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade).
OK. I must admit that the Stieglitz and the Viima are very like. In the article I mentioned Neil Williams told that the Eindekker was so dangerous to fly that they only used it in a few scenes. It is anyhow unlikely that the Eindekker and the SE5a ever met in a fight in real life. Many scenes in the movie were also borrowed from "The Blue Max".
The Eindekker was built using Tiger Moth wings and a new-build fuselage, along with a Continental C90 engine. I've never seen it fly, though.
Some of the scenes in the film were also taken from the film "Von Richthofen and Brown", which itself used some of the Fokker and SE5a replicas from "The Blue Max".
Thanks! Interesting about the Eindekker, I didn't know that. It's correct that "Von Richthofen and Brown" used German planes from "The Blu Max", but the SE5a's in that movie were built for "Darling Lili". "The Blue Max" had only two, fullscale SE5a's, while "Darling Lli" and "Von Richthofen..." had six about 80% scale SE's based on the "Currie Wot". Those were also used in "Zeppelin".
A guy I know on one of the aviation forums, his father was killed in a flying accident while filming one of those films. There was a well-documented flying accident while filming "Zeppelin" in which one of the SE5as collided with a helicopter.
I've never seen the likes of "Von Richthofen and Brown" or "Darling Lili", but I've heard from those who have that neither film is all that good.
"Aces High" is definitely my favourite. Infinitely better than "The Blue Max" or "Hell's Angels". It's a shame the 1938 version of "The Dawn Patrol" isn't available on DVD.
I agree with You. "Aces High" was a much better movie than "The Blue Max". The latter is watchable mostly for the aircraft and flying scenes, as are "...Lili" and "Richthofen...". The newest WW1 flying movies are worthless because they use CGI instead of real aircraft.
"Flyboys" would have been better if it hadn't been such a gung-ho war film. And yeah, much less CGI (WW1 biplanes don't fly like that!!!).
"The Red Baron" wasn't much better, although some of the CGI was quite impressive. They did go out of their way to at least depict the aircraft accurately (not many times I've seen an Albatross D.III on film!)
And "Flyboys" tried too hard to be "political correct". No afro-americans were in the Lafayette Escadrille in real life, for example. Sorry to say, that was unthinkable in those days.
Interesting! I have seen a picture of the pilots in Lafayette Escadrille, and they were all caucasians. But there may have been changes. I also just read an article about black pilots in USA. Most flying schools didn't accept them as late as in the thirties, so a couple of them started a school for black flyers. It was first with the Tuskagee Airmen in WW2 that blacks were really accepted as military pilots. But not in mixed squadrons. Shamefull...
what was the red German aircraft sopposed to be, i mean the Stampe Sv4 didnt have a radial and niether did the tiger moth, can anybody help with the red aircraft?
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Typical Hollywood embellishment. Those planes didn't blow up with that kind of violence when they hit the ground. They weren't packed with Nitroglycerin.
The war was brutal enough without adding to the Violence "It blowed up good, real good" Quotient for the Silver Screen.
Thanks for posting, this was a truly brilliant film. I remember on first seeing it, i was devastated by the shocking ending, which meant it worked. No happy endings in war, certainly not WW1.
When casualties in fighter squadrons start climb in alarming rate RAF command actually ordered pilots to having parachutes but they usually ignored that order because of too tight cockpit.
In apex of WW I air combat middle time of pilot life tap on the both sides was estimated at 10 days, but when new classes of planes start to arriving that count start to grow up on Alies side.
@limegr33nlime Perhaps based upon a real event. A renowned French pilot said he'd jump before he burned. True to his word, when his plane was hit and a flame was seen, he jumped to his death.
Something tells me the sound is nowhere near what those old rotary engines produced, sounds more like WWII prop planes or modern biplanes to me, they were more like lawn mower engines, look at the horsepower.
Yeah, real WWI plane engines sounded nothing like these...
As a matter of a fact, these aren't even aircraft from WWI. They're trainer planes the British used, and it seems the film makers tried to pass them off as Se5s.
Sorry that I have to correct you but that`s no real footage. It's "only" a stuntman with fire-resistant cloth in the first part and a burning doll thrown out of a plane in the second. However it is a very very realistic scene.
Well now, I wouldn't say that. There's a photo I have from 1915 that shows German Taubes and British Fe2bs fighting over the Somme. If you look closely in one of the pictures, you can see a Fe2b flipping over, and there's an object that, if you look closely enough at, you can tell is a man jumping from it.
The German air service began issuing parachutes to its pilots in mid 1918. The Entente refused to do so because they were afraid it would cause their pilots to abandon a perfectly good aircraft...
This unfortunately cost the lives of many good pilots.
German Henke parachutes were very simple, however. They were little more than bits of silk that were attached to the pilot by a strap around the shoulders. You threw it out of the cockpit, jumped, and hoped to god it would open.
Despite of that: Turkey was fighting on German Side in WW I. Remember their victory in the battle of the dardarnelles 1915 against the british fleet.
ursel09 1 month ago
And absolutely funny is the totally old-fashioned Fokker Eindecker, which would have no chance against those FE.5A´s.
ursel09 1 month ago
huhu
serva1976 3 months ago
Funny how all the planes look like slightly modified Tigermoths :)
ejlister 4 months ago
@ejlister The British flew modified Belgian S4B "Stampes". The German flew a Fokker E-1 "Eindekker" copy and a Finnish Valmet "Viima". In some scenes even a De Havilland "Tiger Moth" and a Bücker "Jungmann" can be seen. All but the Fokker were from the 30's. Many scenes are borrowed from "The Blue Max". Also models are used in some scenes.
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I saw this movie in yesterday ! :D And i love it
Mupperik94 4 months ago
Retards, it had nothing to do with any monarchy or religion :P It was a domino-esque event that had to do with old alliances
DemonicTable 4 months ago
shut the fuck up if you think all Muslims are bad you don't no shit i no that because i am a Muslim
5000mahmud 7 months ago
and if Germany had won 2nd world war and achieved world domination, Hitler would have eventually "culled " all
Muslims too
-be grateful you idiot
darkmossie633 10 months ago
My younger brother once asked me "Were all German planes in the First World War red?"
Cool2BCeltic 1 year ago
all that killing just because some bastards as the Illuminati said go kill each other who also blew up the world trade centers & blamed It on Muslims
ortafunk 1 year ago
@ortafunk Are you some sort of nut? or just stupid? or both?
7777Scion 11 months ago
@7777Scion both you mother fucker
ortafunk 11 months ago
@ortafunk what have MUSLIMS got to do with 1914-1918 war?
darkmossie633 10 months ago
@darkmossie633 As far as I know Muslims had Nothing to do with 1914-1918 war, It had to do with fools that worshipped kings (see My video the king Song what a king worshipper Is) Instead of Yahweh called God. Also science proves September 11 2001 was cause by controlled demolition Google 911 Blueprint for truth.
ortafunk 10 months ago
@ortafunk You amaze me with your ability to believe shuch utter bullshit.
uptheproverbialcreek 10 months ago
@uptheproverbialcreek I Am amazed that you believe your own bullshit
ortafunk 10 months ago
Did anyone notice the Immelmann's Turn at 1:47 ??
akshaybabug 1 year ago
@akshaybabug yes :D
ojosdelcielo100 1 year ago
@akshaybabug yes, nice one
darkmossie633 10 months ago
Bücker Jungmeisters "dressed up" as SE5as, an in-between wars twin-seater German trainer (which name I just can´t recall right now), a DH.82 Tiger Moth and another Jungmeiter playing random German WWI fighters, images taken from the movie "Brown-vs-Richtoffen", pilots wearing cotton gloves (not visible here, but I remember that there were)... Certainly not my favourite WWI movie, I´m afraid...
AlanMartinNala 1 year ago
@AlanMartinNala
Stampe SV4s playing SE-5As, I think you'll find. The "German trainer" is a plane called a Viima (and not German).
DazDaMan 10 months ago
Great fight scene. I see that 1983's High Road To China borrowed some footage from this film. Speaking of.. The S.E.5's look like a Stampe in disguise. Sound like them too. The Stampe is sweat looking plane, but definantly not WWI era. This still beats FlyBoys. That film (along with Pearl Harbor) relied too heavily on revisionist history, CGI, and were peppered too much with political correctness.
TheSparrow1000 1 year ago
man i have to rent this movie..It looks awesome
itshammer 1 year ago
Beware of the Hun in the sun, the bastards!
ThePhantomMajor 1 year ago
R.I.P to thoso who fall in "Great War"!
Good part i like it...
APK190 1 year ago
they are so many like flies:)
xazoulini1 1 year ago
i remember a dogfight in a movie like this when suddenly one of the planes guns jams and he tried with a hammer to unjammed it and the other pilot salute him knowing he cannot fire anymore...anyone who nows the movie name?
xazoulini1 1 year ago
@xazoulini1 flyboys, terrible movie.....
majoroadw0rks 1 year ago
@majoroadw0rks Much Better Than This Sick Movie No Gun Firing Smoke A Little Fire When The Gun Attack The Airplane Engine Sound Like Video Game And The Gun Sound Like A Toy Gun ._. And Bad Flying Tactic The PILOT DONT EVEN REACT WHEN Gun Attack Them !
PlushGallade 1 year ago
@xazoulini1 Not sure of the movie but Robert Redford's character tells a similar story in The Great Waldo Pepper. Great movie by the way if you haven't seen it.
Zebred2001 1 year ago
I like the part when they're fighting within visual range.
speedstriker 1 year ago
Great aerial sequences and lovely maneuvers
ferahgo90 1 year ago 2
lol a fokker EIII fight against a SE5a :D really bad editing but great movie. in german the movie has the name: "Duell in den Wolken"
maxwolf20594 1 year ago
@maxwolf20594 actually, the german name of the film is "schlacht in den wolken" ;-)
gruen4321 1 year ago
@gruen4321 i know^^ i have this movie in german at home :) Because I´m german =D
maxwolf20594 1 year ago
@maxwolf20594 I thought it was amusing. I bet no EIII's were airworthy at that point, and would have been suicide in any event.
ahz123 1 year ago
Fokker EIII 2:38 *laughs* That shouldn't be there it fell out of front line service by the end of 1916.
Luminahawke 1 year ago
I would rather be in a S.E.5a ,a Bristol Fighter or the harder to control Sopwith Camel. since unlike some of the German aircraft they did not break up in a dive and where slightly faster.
oddball24sco 1 year ago
@oddball24sco to each his own decision, it is wondeful we have the ability to express our liberties & choose as we wish.
JRussoBuffaloNY 1 year ago
I would not enjoy reloading that fucking p.o.s. vickers on my SE5a, I would rather be in an Albatros or Dr1.
JRussoBuffaloNY 1 year ago
@JRussoBuffaloNY the Lewis gun is on the top wing while the Vickers is the one mounted in front of the pilot. The Lewis could be brought down in front of the pilot to be re-loaded or to shoot from under neath an enemy aircraft.
oddball24sco 1 year ago
@oddball24sco ok ok,I would certainly not enjoy re-loading the pos lewis gun upon my upper wing on the track mount. I would rather be in an early Albatros,Dr.1 or DVII. or maybe even an Eindecker with 3 MG14's.danke
JRussoBuffaloNY 1 year ago
@JRussoBuffaloNY The twin guns on the deck of the German designs were more efficient. It would seem the gun configuration of the SE5a was a glaring WTF. At that point, aircraft designers didn't know how their aircraft would be used.
ahz123 1 year ago
@ahz123 I see, I understand how the lewis would be beneficial firing from below an opponent. As you know some pilots had their own preferences incorporated into their personal aeroplanes, I would have had 2 forward firing vickers, I think it would be difficult to direct a craft & then direct & guide a second object. with traverse,elevation turbulence etc, to be considered.
JRussoBuffaloNY 1 year ago
This movie is called "Aces High" and is just fantastic. It is very hard to come by these days. In my humble opinion (combined with "Hells Angels") this is the greatest WW I movie ever made. The silly American attempt at "FlyBoys" (mixture of Soap and Re-eductional Political Pseudo History) and the German "Red Barron" ("Soap Drama" focusing on the heroe's mental struggles, romance, dreaming etc.) pale in comparison. Excuse the poor 1970ties trick photography, planes etc. They did what they could
Hundedox 1 year ago
@Hundedox I'd actually prefer the Soap Drama over Aces high still. Plus the few air battles on The Red Baron were quite nice, if not a few wtf scenes in aircraft performance, it showed the air war in a scale not seen since Howard Hughes Hell's Angels. I give The Red Baron a lot of credit for that. Plus the mental struggle is the most important part when it comes to an air war in my opinion, life as a pilot was an emotional rollicoaster.
Luminahawke 1 year ago
wow what a film.
ryan3571 1 year ago
I've heard this is a very good movie, but the continuity with the editing is really bad. Most of the planes are definitely post WW1- and there are scenes where the cockpit shots don't match the external view of the plane. I could also see some scenes plucked out of "The Blue Max". "It takes 20 years to make a man, it takes 20 seconds to destroy him".
Hendo56 1 year ago
Wow, that shot down plane is clearly not anything from WW1 era, they didnt even try. Its about 1930s mid.
rotagen5 1 year ago
Thank for this dog fights! i love them! ;] it's movie of my childhood :D i'm also so glad that i could see full scene of burning pilot. THANK A LOT. Salut from poland ;]
macio1990 1 year ago
Do Vickers machine guns really sound like teletype machines... at least they used real planes here. I wonder if anyone will ever make a realistic WW1 dogfight movie, because everything I see... is just.. no.. fail.
cobrachoppergirl 1 year ago
The S.E. 5a came out relatively late in 1917 and I doubt it had ever met the Fokker Eindekker in the air.
Acme633 1 year ago
One of Malcom McDowell's better movies.
hasablad69 2 years ago
@hasablad69 : Is the movie still available?
ljackso 2 years ago
No, it's not readily available. It's a rarity.
hasablad69 2 years ago
Thanks for your reply. It is too bad as I would love to see the entire movie. God bless.
ljackso 2 years ago
@hasablad69 what do yu mean "one of his better movies2/
McDowell, or film should have had an OSCAR ,
but for American bias for their OWN
oscars should be stopped -they are a farce
darkmossie633 2 years ago
ahh yeah thanks passie122
lol i know what it is now
Ezza190 2 years ago
yes its the finnish bi-plane
passie122 2 years ago
@passie122 Thats an albatross.
basetarded 2 years ago
It's a Finnish Valmet Viima. The prototype first flew in 1935
YDDES 2 years ago
@YDDES
It's not, it's a Focke Wulf 44 Stieglitz.
The other planes involved were Stampe SV4s (playing the SE5as), Fokker Eindekker replica, Tiger Moths, Bucker Jungmeisters.
DazDaMan 1 year ago
@DazDaMan
Well, I have photographs of both Stieglitzes and Viimas as well as a copy of the movie. I also have an aviation magazine with an article written by the late stunt pilot Neil Williams, where he clearly states that the red "German" biplane was a Viima, and one of the planes he flew for the movie.
YDDES 1 year ago
@YDDES
Fair enough, I'm probably thinking back to a discussion I had with someone a long time back, and we DID think it was a Stieglitz then.
However, I'm right on the rest of the planes. I've personally seen the Eindekker and one of the Stampes used (the Stampe also turned up in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade).
DazDaMan 1 year ago
@DazDaMan
OK. I must admit that the Stieglitz and the Viima are very like. In the article I mentioned Neil Williams told that the Eindekker was so dangerous to fly that they only used it in a few scenes. It is anyhow unlikely that the Eindekker and the SE5a ever met in a fight in real life. Many scenes in the movie were also borrowed from "The Blue Max".
YDDES 1 year ago
@YDDES
The Eindekker was built using Tiger Moth wings and a new-build fuselage, along with a Continental C90 engine. I've never seen it fly, though.
Some of the scenes in the film were also taken from the film "Von Richthofen and Brown", which itself used some of the Fokker and SE5a replicas from "The Blue Max".
DazDaMan 1 year ago
@DazDaMan
Thanks! Interesting about the Eindekker, I didn't know that. It's correct that "Von Richthofen and Brown" used German planes from "The Blu Max", but the SE5a's in that movie were built for "Darling Lili". "The Blue Max" had only two, fullscale SE5a's, while "Darling Lli" and "Von Richthofen..." had six about 80% scale SE's based on the "Currie Wot". Those were also used in "Zeppelin".
YDDES 1 year ago
@YDDES
A guy I know on one of the aviation forums, his father was killed in a flying accident while filming one of those films. There was a well-documented flying accident while filming "Zeppelin" in which one of the SE5as collided with a helicopter.
DazDaMan 1 year ago
@DazDaMan
Thanks again! I've read about a fatal accident during that filming, but didn't know much about it.
YDDES 1 year ago
@YDDES
I've never seen the likes of "Von Richthofen and Brown" or "Darling Lili", but I've heard from those who have that neither film is all that good.
"Aces High" is definitely my favourite. Infinitely better than "The Blue Max" or "Hell's Angels". It's a shame the 1938 version of "The Dawn Patrol" isn't available on DVD.
DazDaMan 1 year ago
@DazDaMan
I agree with You. "Aces High" was a much better movie than "The Blue Max". The latter is watchable mostly for the aircraft and flying scenes, as are "...Lili" and "Richthofen...". The newest WW1 flying movies are worthless because they use CGI instead of real aircraft.
YDDES 1 year ago
@YDDES
"Flyboys" would have been better if it hadn't been such a gung-ho war film. And yeah, much less CGI (WW1 biplanes don't fly like that!!!).
"The Red Baron" wasn't much better, although some of the CGI was quite impressive. They did go out of their way to at least depict the aircraft accurately (not many times I've seen an Albatross D.III on film!)
DazDaMan 1 year ago
@DazDaMan
And "Flyboys" tried too hard to be "political correct". No afro-americans were in the Lafayette Escadrille in real life, for example. Sorry to say, that was unthinkable in those days.
"The Red Baron" I haven't seen yet.
YDDES 1 year ago
@YDDES
Actually, there WAS a black pilot in the Lafayette Escadrille. I remember looking it up at the time. I'll find the link to the article.
(Actually, it might not have been the Lafayette Escadrille, but there certainly was one who flew. )
DazDaMan 1 year ago
@DazDaMan
Interesting! I have seen a picture of the pilots in Lafayette Escadrille, and they were all caucasians. But there may have been changes. I also just read an article about black pilots in USA. Most flying schools didn't accept them as late as in the thirties, so a couple of them started a school for black flyers. It was first with the Tuskagee Airmen in WW2 that blacks were really accepted as military pilots. But not in mixed squadrons. Shamefull...
YDDES 1 year ago
what was the red German aircraft sopposed to be, i mean the Stampe Sv4 didnt have a radial and niether did the tiger moth, can anybody help with the red aircraft?
Ezza190 2 years ago
@Ezza190
wasn't it a Halberstadt?
shitonMOHAMMAD 2 years ago
great movie!
ThePunisher1978 2 years ago
If anyone knows where I can get this movie could you please post it. Most I have spoken to seem to know nothing about it. Thanks for posting
Gehniss 2 years ago
This is a fantastic scene. No CGI, just planes and a camera. I love the exciting camera shots. Great film, I would like the see the whole thing. =)
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wbsteerfilms 2 years ago
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wbsteerfilms 2 years ago
Brilliant film, seen loads of times.
gives an insight into how bad things must have been, knowing that you'll never make it past a few flights.
Peter Firth is fantastic
bungleandzippytoo 2 years ago
Just to get some insight, right at the end, who collides with the German plane? The older guy, or the young guy? Thank you. =)
RobertMProductions 2 years ago
hi
young chap played by Peter Firth. he joined as his wing commander was his idol (and i think engaged to his sister?)
as others have said, is not just the flying but the whole situation, and the hopelessnes of it. just too forgotten by the world now.
bungleandzippytoo 2 years ago
Oh, thank you.
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wbsteerfilms 2 years ago
a lot of air action packed into this vid, but if you watch whole film, it is a masterpiece of human
interaction, of young men, knowing they were on the brink of eternity
no oscars awarded
-usual American farce we are well used to
darkmossie633 2 years ago
Anybody know or can tell me where I can get a this on DVD? Netflix doesn't have it. ..
bitethedevil 2 years ago
There are still plenty of copies around on old VHF cassette videos, if you have that type of recorder though old fashioned now
-superb film, that this video, although good cannot do justice too
oscar winning perfomances by McDowell and Firth
-not given of course!
darkmossie633 2 years ago
sorry, forgot to mention MAGNIFICENT performance by
CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER
who also starred brilliantly in epic film "Battle of Britain"
another oscar not given, and i write it in lower case as oscars are a complete American farce!
darkmossie633 2 years ago
Typical Hollywood embellishment. Those planes didn't blow up with that kind of violence when they hit the ground. They weren't packed with Nitroglycerin.
The war was brutal enough without adding to the Violence "It blowed up good, real good" Quotient for the Silver Screen.
Ironbudokan 2 years ago
Thanks for posting, this was a truly brilliant film. I remember on first seeing it, i was devastated by the shocking ending, which meant it worked. No happy endings in war, certainly not WW1.
stewux 2 years ago
youre right man, one of the best ww1 films,
on par with "The Blue Max"
both films had sad endings, but in that way they were uncomprimising on the truth about war
darkmossie633 2 years ago
lol remember that part, S.E.5a vs Eindecker
ziherr 2 years ago
Anyone notice how FlyBoys kind of copied this? I mean really, a guy on fire the gun on top, little red ribbons on the wings...
stewartwadehines 2 years ago
No, the allied planes r supposed to be SE5As, which were supposed to have a top gun. but i agree with u on the ribbon bit.
MTwillman 2 years ago
It's funny....I've seen a movie...Of a guy.....THat plays in THAT movie. xD
robloxguggi 2 years ago
That's really scary to see that's guy's flaming body fall from so high and hit the ground so hard.
limegr33nlime 2 years ago
no parachutes allowed in RAF in ww1
they thought pilots would just bail out
without a fight
darkmossie633 2 years ago 2
You mean RFC...
samuraikensai 2 years ago
Royal Flying Corps
darkmossie633 2 years ago
On the contrary.
When casualties in fighter squadrons start climb in alarming rate RAF command actually ordered pilots to having parachutes but they usually ignored that order because of too tight cockpit.
In apex of WW I air combat middle time of pilot life tap on the both sides was estimated at 10 days, but when new classes of planes start to arriving that count start to grow up on Alies side.
Qusza2007 2 years ago
@limegr33nlime Perhaps based upon a real event. A renowned French pilot said he'd jump before he burned. True to his word, when his plane was hit and a flame was seen, he jumped to his death.
ahz123 1 year ago
Do someone know what is the name of song which was singing during drunking in this movie?
Shavarosh 2 years ago
the test pilot who did stunts in aces high he wrote a book too. neil williams
died dec 78 in spain ferryin heinkel 111 bomber a rolls royce eingined one.
tj
terryjohn 2 years ago
sorry so many post my letters keep going.
my relative past this movie set in 75 /9 in his van.
hertfordshire aerodrome staffen waldon
tj
terryjohn 2 years ago
on a note filmin began sept 75.all...
film relesed 76 15th /9/ i saw it twice boy am i old....
the film here on tv in uk is cut too.
tj
terryjohn 2 years ago
2:57 did that kind of plane really exist? If it did it was probably first monoplane ever :D.
jpogfani 2 years ago
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terryjohn 2 years ago
Ok. That thing looks pretty flimsy :D
jpogfani 2 years ago
sorry wrong plane its a Eindeccker 1
monoplane google '
there is a jugimeister in film
the real ww1 mostly they wouldnt break up as real things would do.viorlent manuvers
tj
terryjohn 2 years ago
yes but only 1916 not 1917 as this films set in.
tj
terryjohn 2 years ago
Most of the planes seemed Tiger Moths to me
carnage2681 2 years ago
yes and ex german ww2 planes trainers
tj
terryjohn 2 years ago
the pilots were some stunt men and a well known RAF jet pilot who was killed in 1978 spain flying a heinkel 111
tj
terryjohn 2 years ago
yes tigers were used too and ww2 german trainers.
tj
terryjohn 2 years ago
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adriacorzogotaredona 3 years ago
Something tells me the sound is nowhere near what those old rotary engines produced, sounds more like WWII prop planes or modern biplanes to me, they were more like lawn mower engines, look at the horsepower.
rotagen5 3 years ago
Yeah, real WWI plane engines sounded nothing like these...
As a matter of a fact, these aren't even aircraft from WWI. They're trainer planes the British used, and it seems the film makers tried to pass them off as Se5s.
Friendo1231 3 years ago
There is, however, one actual WWI replica plane in this scene. At 2:39, the monoplane shown is a German Fokker E.III.
Friendo1231 3 years ago
well i can remember flying a camel so there
gluepot66 2 years ago
stop nit-pickin-this great film man
darkmossie633 2 years ago
4.16 to 4.23 is real footage I believe I saw it in a documentary of real black and white footage of WW1 air battles.
eatmoremonsters 3 years ago
Sorry that I have to correct you but that`s no real footage. It's "only" a stuntman with fire-resistant cloth in the first part and a burning doll thrown out of a plane in the second. However it is a very very realistic scene.
germaneagle81 3 years ago 2
Ah right. I saw it in a documentary, come to think of it it probably is fake. There's no way you'd film it in real life. My idiocy, sorry.
eatmoremonsters 3 years ago
Well now, I wouldn't say that. There's a photo I have from 1915 that shows German Taubes and British Fe2bs fighting over the Somme. If you look closely in one of the pictures, you can see a Fe2b flipping over, and there's an object that, if you look closely enough at, you can tell is a man jumping from it.
Friendo1231 3 years ago
no chutes, might impair a pilots nerve. watch the bloody movie.
ruttsy42 3 years ago
The German air service began issuing parachutes to its pilots in mid 1918. The Entente refused to do so because they were afraid it would cause their pilots to abandon a perfectly good aircraft...
This unfortunately cost the lives of many good pilots.
German Henke parachutes were very simple, however. They were little more than bits of silk that were attached to the pilot by a strap around the shoulders. You threw it out of the cockpit, jumped, and hoped to god it would open.
Friendo1231 3 years ago
yes they also had strap ons the redbaron wore one when he died.
i have photo
tj
terryjohn 2 years ago
I would rather be a pilot than I groundsoldier back then..
At least you`l be away from all the mud and smell of death..
augustina91 3 years ago
I fully agree on that.
ZemplinTemplar 3 years ago
Good film. Very tragic at the end. Would hated to have been a pilot back then with there being no parachutes.
alexkrycek21 3 years ago
Thank you for your comment.
I respect WW1 pilots who didn't bring parachutes.
The WW1 aces made lots of legends.
However, actual dogfight must be tragic story.
iowan2005lzin 3 years ago
Indeed, it was world war 1 that braught the:
Rules of Engagement
Air Craft Carriers etc
New era.
whodareswinsuk 3 years ago