If you want to see a great WW1 air war film, "The Blue Max," has, I think, yet to be topped. Real airplanes, not computer generated animation + a good story to boot.
Blue max is def. my choice for ww1 air combat. Not really looking forwards to Red tails as the trailer states 'inspired by true events' I'd be more interested if it was 'based on true events'
You got that from the movie "Flyboys"...and acepilot1997, that black pilot was not in the German military, but the French Foreign Legion, and a pilot for the "Lafayette Escadrille" in World War 1. His name, Eugene Bullard the only black pilot in world war 1. Get your facts right, noob...
The movie was very unrealistic and, like kaschtnamtdiekarbin said the gremans werent realy bloodthirsty that shot at crouds. Only the red baron flew a red fokker. HOWEVER, the dogfights look awesome.
@17MrLeon Auctually they do, and I don't understand why people are complaining so much. It's not a documentary, it's just a movie, made for entertainment purposes.
What's up with this clip? If you were standing on the wing during flight you'd be thrown off almost immediately. Additionally, the gotha's wings are far too strong to be destroyed by such a small amount of drag. He could just pull up and glide slowly to the ground. How stupid.
For some reason, Howard Hughes (producer of Hell's Angels, one of the first WWI movies) greatly disliked The Blue Max when he saw it. Maybe a touch of envy??
Flyboys was a horrible movie. Every German plane was a red triplane (there was only one of those!) and the German pilots were depicted as bloodthirsty monsters who shoot at crowds on the ground (didn't happen in WW1).
@kaschtnsamtdiekarbln I woudn't call it horrible, I agree it left a lot to be desired. It's weird how someone has the opportunity to make a film, only to disappoint with cheezy details. Pfalz was alive & well & a lot of units had them in 1917. Same as with Albatros. Fokker produced many fighters but very few were Dr.1s', certainly not as depicted in the movie. Only one or two people would be flying one.
@kolbpilot You wouldn't call it horrible, but people who appreciate good acting and good flying sequences in their movies, would call it utterly horrible!
@Kopihucky Exaxt, and they didn't even invent the first world war, they didn't even invent the first plane. They claim it, but there is evidence that people from Europe flew motorized planes before the Wright incest brothers did. Americans are so dumb!
@kaschtnsamtdiekarbln I agree, it's a shit movie with a lot of suggestions and false interpretations. And like the American film industry: a stupid romantic affair with a whore and a kid... These guys jacked off or bumped a hooker for a drink, no more.The Germans were clever, had tactics and superior planes whereas the English were drinking mud water tea and rather burned to dead instead of jumping with a parachute to get the next plane and shoot again. Summed up:cunt movie
@kaschtnsamtdiekarbln And by the way: there's a negro flying in the movie... That never happenend! Negro's did the dishes and the best ones repaired a broken tire... They were afraid of the wooden birds! Also cunt for this movie. But they have to because we live in the days that so called peace and happyness go's beyond realism. Cheers.
@postmeester easy on the hate, buddy. it's true that no blacks flew planes in world war 1, but they did do quite a bit of fighting (so that the french pussies could bake pastries instead). 25 years later, blacks constituted the majority of the "free french" forces who retook paris from hitler- until they were withdrawn, so charles de gaulle could throw an all-white liberation parade. i'm angry at the dishonesty in allied historical memory. blacks have nothing to do with that.
@kaschtnsamtdiekarbln Well, don't hate "allied history", rather you should realize "Hollywood" or the likes for distorting history. As for your comment of the free-french, that is only marginally true, blacks had little to do with it. We all know that D-day was when Germany lost control of the continent. As you may know, the first blacks to fly in combat was the 332nd Tuskegee Airmen and George Lucas has a film opening next month called Red Tails...hopefully giving a truthful story of them.
@kaschtnsamtdiekarbln actually we blacks have been in every american conflict from the american revolution and onwards your just not going to find that in any history books and that black pilot in the movie was an actually flying for the french during the war his name was Eugene Bullard
@TheGunner066 yeah blacks served armirably in the french armed forces, they were not segregated like the americans, which didn't change their policies until after world war two, talk about being a backward nation at that time.
@kaschtnsamtdiekarbln It's still not as bad or as one-sided as Edward Zwick's movies are. Ever seen the battle scenes in Glory, Legends of the Fall and The Last Samurai? You know who Hollywood wants to shit on and whose dick they love to suck on when you see Zwick's garbage.
@kaschtnsamtdiekarbln 320 Fokker Triplane was built...not sure what you mean by "there was only one of those"?...maybe im missunderstanding something :)
@kaschtnsamtdiekarbln I have to agree with you for the most part. The reason they do that is because movie makers think people are stupid, they think one side has to be gloridied, and the other demonized. In war no one is good and no one is evil. Also people have to stop thinking that movies are completly based on facted. Yes the movie is based on a true story but things are going to be distorted because it's just a movie.
@Vassilli42 And that's because there's the way we conduct ourselves and then there's the way we wish we conducted ourselves. The later is what always gets put into movies.
@kaschtnsamtdiekarbln I wonder if the germans thought of doing that? paint one plane in every formation, or maybe 2, and it would seem like they were everywhere and unstoppable.
@kaschtnsamtdiekarbln dude this happened after the red barons death so they bulit more and gave them to every pilot some wanted it to be a different color
@TANCARDINAL70 The real reason is the director wanted an easier way to tell the other triplanes to the leader and not mistake them. It was in an interview. After the RED BARONS death the Fokker.D7 came in. No other pilot had his tri plane red
I liked this movie but the only German fighters the showed were tri planes and they did have them but that wasn't the only fighter they had so it looked alil holly wood to me, but the gotha bomber is my all time favorite ww1 bomber and this is my favorite seen of it
although flyboys is a good movie, it is historically inaccurate in some instances. the german airman is walking on the wing to pour oil into the engine (or water into the cooling system), which was not at all uncommon.
although flyboys is a good movie, it is historically inaccurate in some instances. the german airman is walking on the wing to pour oil into the engine, which was not at all uncommon.
Manfred von Richthofen started out as an observer on a bomber. his position in the aircraft right next to the plane of rotation of the propellers. One time during flight he carelessly stuck his hand out, the propeller grazing it lightly.
He was draining water from the radiator to make hot chocolate or coffee.
Don’t try this at home. If you drain a modern radiator what comes out is water with an anti-freezing additive. If you drink that the authorities will call it a suicide.
@kolbpilot Yes, indeed. I heard of that one and I think that there is even a picture (but I don´t know if it is a photo or a drawing) of him bailing out the moment he crashed his plane into another one.
I remember seeing the words "Du Doch Nicht!" ("Certainly Not You!") on his plane´s elevator.
@KrautGoesWild Udet was forced to jump by a French 2 seater at high altitude, being knocked down by the rear gunner (du toch nicht). His parachute pull cord (attached to the aircraft) proves to be too long & gets hung up on the tail for a while as he first jumps out of his plane. At the bar that night he shrugged it off as no big deal. Ernst Udet is one of the first pilots to first use the parachute.
@StarfireAlpha Yeah, that´s exactly what the man is doing. Some of the first "bombers" in WW1 even required the copilot/gunner to lift out the bombs and drop them by hand.
As far as the fuel is concerned, they people tried to save weight by not linking additional fuel tanks to the engines (they weren´t that strong at that time) directly.
@KrautGoesWild "lift out the bombs and drop them by hand." I guess the explosion wasn't that big oh well still salute to these daring aviators of WWI.
With no parachute they went down all the way or shot themselves if the plane is on fire.
@StarfireAlpha Both my grandpas fought in WW2 (one for the Luftwaffe, the other for the RAF) and even then on both sides, their instructors advised them to take a gun with them into the air.
"If you´re going down and can´t get out, you´ll know why..."
@FAZER00432 You don't know what a radiator looks like do you? Please observe he was working from the bottom of the radiator and then tell me how you can put oil in from the bottom of an engine. Jesus, this is just plain common sense. You must go to the dealer to get your car maintenance done.
@Spriglief okay, clearly you know very little about what you are talking about and world war 1 aircraft. on the german gotha bomber, that IS where water or oil was poured into the engine for the radiator. this bomber is na 'pusher'plane'. that is where the radiator is.
@squigy97 LOL, Squigy97 you don't pour oil, water, or anything into the BOTTOM of an engine. How did you miss that class on gravity that most kids get in their high chair?
Flyboys was such a historically inaccurate movie. Nieuports used rotary engines, but they put radial engines in them. All of those fight scenes were made using CGI so there was really no excuse for that mistake.
The Fokker Triplane squadrons were also given improper colors. Most triplanes were in cameo brownish color, not black and red.
@GGigabiteM Yeah, I agree. It was disappointing. But you have to remember that Hollywood doesn't care about historical accuracy especially if the majority of the people that see it can't tell the difference. It would have been nice to see the majority of german planes be albatrosses since the Dr1 didn't really come out until later - and then it still was in limited supply. Somehow I knew that the triplane would have been the only german plane in the movie (other than the gotha).
@tetrisclock I agree... 1) Planes never flew that close or that fast. 2) The planes would rip apart over the G's they were doing. 3) Black people never got the privlige to fly, America was just like that...
@tetrisclock Oh wait woops... I'm not saying they flew in America I'm saying the americans were so racist at the time they barely flew for the Americans.
@tetrisclock For people who are airplane fanatics, such as myself, and are used to the older movies (The Blue Max, for instance), that had REAL planes in all their flying sequences, "Fly Boys" was an incredibly disappointing turd. both in the acting and the flying.
I honestly don't care who makes the movie. For all I care, Germany or France could make a movie about German/French airmen, and I'd like it if it was accurate.
I just wish SOMEONE would make a decent WW1 flick.
Actually yes, I have seen "The Blue Max" it would be my favorite WW1 film, right above "All Quiet on the Western Front".
It just seems as though the number of decent WW1 films pale in comparison to the number of decent WW2 films.
It would just be nice to see someone do a WW1 piece that had the 20'th century bravado as "Saving Private Ryan". Only because modern day special effects done right can really put you inside the action.
And I'm really hoping "War Horse" will be a good film. I was really holding out of "Flyboys" when I saw the first trailer for it. Too bad it fudged so much history and offered little in the character department.
21 people were in 7 Gothas
RallyXRacer7 1 week ago
If you want to see a great WW1 air war film, "The Blue Max," has, I think, yet to be topped. Real airplanes, not computer generated animation + a good story to boot.
8ALICAT 1 month ago 10
Blue max is def. my choice for ww1 air combat. Not really looking forwards to Red tails as the trailer states 'inspired by true events' I'd be more interested if it was 'based on true events'
I did like the ruskagee airmen however.
virgilintheuk 1 month ago 2
ahahahahahah...un cannibale pilota...ahahahahahahahah
bugna1968 1 month ago
Hopefully Red Tails will be much better than Fly Boys'
mrFalconlem 1 month ago
hahahhaahahahah
1. Neuport 11 winning in turn battle with Fokker DRI
2.One pass aroung gotha with one gun and engine is out?! i flying in Rise of Flight i must shoot so much time to destroy engine with 2 guns
MisterWolfu 2 months ago
... it's a bloody movie!! chill the fuck out
Redeemedsinner17 2 months ago
You got that from the movie "Flyboys"...and acepilot1997, that black pilot was not in the German military, but the French Foreign Legion, and a pilot for the "Lafayette Escadrille" in World War 1. His name, Eugene Bullard the only black pilot in world war 1. Get your facts right, noob...
lukeman61497 2 months ago 2
Black person in the German military in the early 1900's? I think not...
acepilot1997 2 months ago
@acepilot1997
they probably wanted to make it politically correct... You know pussify the movie even more.
TheDuvalMilitia 1 month ago
RED BARON shoot all Flyboys down^^
DanielaFetsch 2 months ago
Who was the guy chilling on the wing at the beginning
skintrade 2 months ago
The movie was very unrealistic and, like kaschtnamtdiekarbin said the gremans werent realy bloodthirsty that shot at crouds. Only the red baron flew a red fokker. HOWEVER, the dogfights look awesome.
ThePilot4ever 2 months ago
Well it looks like the have canons instead of machiguns but its just a movie i know
17MrLeon 3 months ago
@17MrLeon they are clearly machine guns
bh5496 2 months ago
@bh5496 machineguns dont make smoke lines. Only canons do that. its a mistake but looks cool in the movie
17MrLeon 2 months ago
@17MrLeon
One of many.
Ismalith 2 months ago
@17MrLeon Auctually they do, and I don't understand why people are complaining so much. It's not a documentary, it's just a movie, made for entertainment purposes.
bliesberg 2 months ago
@bliesberg nah they dotn, and I said already before that its just a movie I dont complain I just point out one fact.
17MrLeon 2 months ago
@17MrLeon MG's that have incendiary rounds do, but since these don't have incendiary rounds it's still wrong.
DAKOTA56777 3 weeks ago
what film?
MisterWolfu 3 months ago
The great Bomber flight only in the Night. Dies großen Bomber wurden fast nur Nachts eingesetzt.
Karlowl67 3 months ago
This is from a Movie Ride? i dont remember the name but i have this movie to! It a nice one.
snuffie205 3 months ago
@snuffie205 the movie is called Flyboys
JonB83 2 months ago
This is HOT
tsns1 3 months ago
What's up with this clip? If you were standing on the wing during flight you'd be thrown off almost immediately. Additionally, the gotha's wings are far too strong to be destroyed by such a small amount of drag. He could just pull up and glide slowly to the ground. How stupid.
TheSevenCamels 3 months ago
no different than the lying Liberal Media we have today
N8009B 4 months ago 2
The movie is FLYBOYS. very good movie. (and accurate, the frame of the bomber would have broken from intense air drag)
Huntersinthesky 4 months ago
1:18 The pilot is yelling (though it can't be heard because of the engine noises)
"DAMN YOU RED BAROOOOOOOOOON!" Dives, hits the ground, explodes
madcat789 4 months ago
Maybe a shite movie but none the less Gothas inflicted serious damage on south east England
southlondon63 4 months ago
What films this?
brierley2190 4 months ago
@brierley2190 FLYBOYS
TPBXDRicky420 4 months ago
@TPBXDRicky420 I think rather it is from the 2008 movie: THE RED BARON
PowerBodhranArts 3 months ago
@PowerBodhranArts definitely FLY BOYS my favourite movie besides pearl harbour
mrspritezero 2 months ago
@PowerBodhranArts
It is from Flyboys
Ismalith 2 months ago
@PowerBodhranArts It's FLYBOYS
DAKOTA56777 3 weeks ago
THIS IS BOLLOCKS.
532bluepeter 5 months ago
For some reason, Howard Hughes (producer of Hell's Angels, one of the first WWI movies) greatly disliked The Blue Max when he saw it. Maybe a touch of envy??
nicuribe 5 months ago
Can someone please do a movie with the R-planes? That'd be so worth seeing. :(
SeverEnergia 6 months ago
@SeverEnergia What's an R-plane?
carmium 4 months ago
@carmium "R-Plane" is the designation for the huge planes the German Empire built during WWI and comes from "Riesenflugzeug"/"Giant Airplane".
I think to remember that if you enter "R-plane" in WIkipedia, you´ll find at least a list of them.
Check it out, if you like ;)
KrautGoesWild 4 months ago
@SeverEnergia I totally agree! Except for "Flyboys" here and "The Red Baron" from 2008 there is pretty much nothing about this issue.
And the first World War does not seem to be very popular with the moviemakers :(
KrautGoesWild 4 months ago
@JMClarkson3235 They are in it for the money.
The greedy basterds at Hollywood could give less than two shits about
what you think about WW1 and 2. Even if it mean't glorifiing war to boost profit, they
would do it. Welcome to the world my friend, where money rules and morals die.
SamPD2 8 months ago
an african in ww1 an airplane. They were eating each other in ww1
TheWyodon 9 months ago
this is fly boys movie
Therudeboy1996 9 months ago
Is it a film fo frustrated french people?
Hamishtarah 9 months ago
Flyboys was a horrible movie. Every German plane was a red triplane (there was only one of those!) and the German pilots were depicted as bloodthirsty monsters who shoot at crowds on the ground (didn't happen in WW1).
kaschtnsamtdiekarbln 10 months ago 58
@kaschtnsamtdiekarbln They made them all red so you could tell them apart.
yachtnick05 10 months ago
@kaschtnsamtdiekarbln I woudn't call it horrible, I agree it left a lot to be desired. It's weird how someone has the opportunity to make a film, only to disappoint with cheezy details. Pfalz was alive & well & a lot of units had them in 1917. Same as with Albatros. Fokker produced many fighters but very few were Dr.1s', certainly not as depicted in the movie. Only one or two people would be flying one.
kolbpilot 9 months ago
@kolbpilot You wouldn't call it horrible, but people who appreciate good acting and good flying sequences in their movies, would call it utterly horrible!
71259mark 8 months ago
@71259mark All the more reason I should be in charge of multi-million dollar film about flying. Ah, but life is not fair.
kolbpilot 8 months ago
@kolbpilot I've never met you, but I'll bet you could have done a better job.
71259mark 8 months ago
@kaschtnsamtdiekarbln Typical american propaganda really..
Kopihucky 2 months ago
@Kopihucky Exaxt, and they didn't even invent the first world war, they didn't even invent the first plane. They claim it, but there is evidence that people from Europe flew motorized planes before the Wright incest brothers did. Americans are so dumb!
postmeester 2 months ago
@kaschtnsamtdiekarbln I agree, it's a shit movie with a lot of suggestions and false interpretations. And like the American film industry: a stupid romantic affair with a whore and a kid... These guys jacked off or bumped a hooker for a drink, no more.The Germans were clever, had tactics and superior planes whereas the English were drinking mud water tea and rather burned to dead instead of jumping with a parachute to get the next plane and shoot again. Summed up:cunt movie
postmeester 2 months ago
@kaschtnsamtdiekarbln And by the way: there's a negro flying in the movie... That never happenend! Negro's did the dishes and the best ones repaired a broken tire... They were afraid of the wooden birds! Also cunt for this movie. But they have to because we live in the days that so called peace and happyness go's beyond realism. Cheers.
postmeester 2 months ago
@postmeester easy on the hate, buddy. it's true that no blacks flew planes in world war 1, but they did do quite a bit of fighting (so that the french pussies could bake pastries instead). 25 years later, blacks constituted the majority of the "free french" forces who retook paris from hitler- until they were withdrawn, so charles de gaulle could throw an all-white liberation parade. i'm angry at the dishonesty in allied historical memory. blacks have nothing to do with that.
kaschtnsamtdiekarbln 2 months ago
@kaschtnsamtdiekarbln Well, don't hate "allied history", rather you should realize "Hollywood" or the likes for distorting history. As for your comment of the free-french, that is only marginally true, blacks had little to do with it. We all know that D-day was when Germany lost control of the continent. As you may know, the first blacks to fly in combat was the 332nd Tuskegee Airmen and George Lucas has a film opening next month called Red Tails...hopefully giving a truthful story of them.
DickLodge68 2 months ago
@kaschtnsamtdiekarbln actually we blacks have been in every american conflict from the american revolution and onwards your just not going to find that in any history books and that black pilot in the movie was an actually flying for the french during the war his name was Eugene Bullard
TheGunner066 4 days ago
@TheGunner066 yeah blacks served armirably in the french armed forces, they were not segregated like the americans, which didn't change their policies until after world war two, talk about being a backward nation at that time.
bombarderoazul 4 days ago
@kaschtnsamtdiekarbln It's still not as bad or as one-sided as Edward Zwick's movies are. Ever seen the battle scenes in Glory, Legends of the Fall and The Last Samurai? You know who Hollywood wants to shit on and whose dick they love to suck on when you see Zwick's garbage.
buttercremehonda 2 months ago
@buttercremehonda - Quoted for truth.
sudaev 4 days ago
@kaschtnsamtdiekarbln 320 Fokker Triplane was built...not sure what you mean by "there was only one of those"?...maybe im missunderstanding something :)
Skalmans750 2 months ago
@Skalmans750 there was only one red one. in the film, all of them are.
kaschtnsamtdiekarbln 2 months ago
@kaschtnsamtdiekarbln ah...ok :)
Skalmans750 2 months ago
@kaschtnsamtdiekarbln red plane= Manfred von Richtofen= most renbound wwi german pilot
jakejake771 2 months ago
@kaschtnsamtdiekarbln I have to agree with you for the most part. The reason they do that is because movie makers think people are stupid, they think one side has to be gloridied, and the other demonized. In war no one is good and no one is evil. Also people have to stop thinking that movies are completly based on facted. Yes the movie is based on a true story but things are going to be distorted because it's just a movie.
Vassilli42 2 months ago
@Vassilli42 And that's because there's the way we conduct ourselves and then there's the way we wish we conducted ourselves. The later is what always gets put into movies.
JaleelJohanson62 2 months ago
@JaleelJohanson62 Very true.
Vassilli42 2 months ago
@kaschtnsamtdiekarbln Its called hollywood. I hate it too, but if you want an amazing WW1 film, watch The Red Baron. Best of them all! :)
cxlcitymaster 2 months ago 12
@cxlcitymaster I liked the Red Baron better then Flyboys however it was still horrible written. Try the the blue max, it's the best ww1 film ever.
snowwolf7777 1 month ago
@cxlcitymaster MY FRIENDS THINK ITS BOARING BUT I EGNORE THEM BECAUSE THEY HAVE ISSUIES
warfare1917able 3 weeks ago
@cxlcitymaster if you're talking about the 2008 version then that must have been the only WW1 movie you've ever seen
BossHossGT500 2 weeks ago
@kaschtnsamtdiekarbln I wonder if the germans thought of doing that? paint one plane in every formation, or maybe 2, and it would seem like they were everywhere and unstoppable.
BigRedNZ1 1 month ago
@kaschtnsamtdiekarbln dude this happened after the red barons death so they bulit more and gave them to every pilot some wanted it to be a different color
TANCARDINAL70 1 month ago
@TANCARDINAL70 The real reason is the director wanted an easier way to tell the other triplanes to the leader and not mistake them. It was in an interview. After the RED BARONS death the Fokker.D7 came in. No other pilot had his tri plane red
newsupersammyspider 2 weeks ago
I liked this movie but the only German fighters the showed were tri planes and they did have them but that wasn't the only fighter they had so it looked alil holly wood to me, but the gotha bomber is my all time favorite ww1 bomber and this is my favorite seen of it
ProPorchMonkey 10 months ago
Are there any full size Gotha replicas out there? this one - I assume - was a scale model, since they destroyed it
Poopingbotham 1 year ago
although flyboys is a good movie, it is historically inaccurate in some instances. the german airman is walking on the wing to pour oil into the engine (or water into the cooling system), which was not at all uncommon.
squigy97 1 year ago
although flyboys is a good movie, it is historically inaccurate in some instances. the german airman is walking on the wing to pour oil into the engine, which was not at all uncommon.
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ColaWhiski 1 year ago
Manfred von Richthofen started out as an observer on a bomber. his position in the aircraft right next to the plane of rotation of the propellers. One time during flight he carelessly stuck his hand out, the propeller grazing it lightly.
kolbpilot 1 year ago
a lots of the black US flyiers were attacked when they landed by their own people!
Fucking hell
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He was draining water from the radiator to make hot chocolate or coffee.
Don’t try this at home. If you drain a modern radiator what comes out is water with an anti-freezing additive. If you drink that the authorities will call it a suicide.
Spriglief 1 year ago
haha this movies historically incorrect yes but hay...its holly wood what did you expect
t1oxETy 1 year ago
Flyboys is one of the most inaccurate WW1 air war movies.
ichmalealsobinich 1 year ago
BTW: I just dug out of Wiki that the Luftwaffe (and only them) began to issue parachutes to their pilots from early 1918 on.
They were very far from being reliable and many pilots died, when these early parachutes malfunctioned, but at least it gave the pilots a chance.
KrautGoesWild 1 year ago
@KrautGoesWild Ernst Udet owes his life to one of those early parachutes.
kolbpilot 1 year ago
@kolbpilot Yes, indeed. I heard of that one and I think that there is even a picture (but I don´t know if it is a photo or a drawing) of him bailing out the moment he crashed his plane into another one.
I remember seeing the words "Du Doch Nicht!" ("Certainly Not You!") on his plane´s elevator.
KrautGoesWild 1 year ago
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kolbpilot 1 year ago
@KrautGoesWild Udet was forced to jump by a French 2 seater at high altitude, being knocked down by the rear gunner (du toch nicht). His parachute pull cord (attached to the aircraft) proves to be too long & gets hung up on the tail for a while as he first jumps out of his plane. At the bar that night he shrugged it off as no big deal. Ernst Udet is one of the first pilots to first use the parachute.
kolbpilot 1 year ago
Must dig that out it looks interesting.
Twirlyhead 1 year ago
What are they doing in the beginning? topping up fuel?
StarfireAlpha 1 year ago
@StarfireAlpha Yeah, that´s exactly what the man is doing. Some of the first "bombers" in WW1 even required the copilot/gunner to lift out the bombs and drop them by hand.
As far as the fuel is concerned, they people tried to save weight by not linking additional fuel tanks to the engines (they weren´t that strong at that time) directly.
KrautGoesWild 1 year ago
@KrautGoesWild "lift out the bombs and drop them by hand." I guess the explosion wasn't that big oh well still salute to these daring aviators of WWI.
With no parachute they went down all the way or shot themselves if the plane is on fire.
StarfireAlpha 1 year ago
@StarfireAlpha Both my grandpas fought in WW2 (one for the Luftwaffe, the other for the RAF) and even then on both sides, their instructors advised them to take a gun with them into the air.
"If you´re going down and can´t get out, you´ll know why..."
KrautGoesWild 1 year ago
@StarfireAlpha He was draining water from the radiator to make hot chocolate or coffee.
Spriglief 1 year ago 18
@Spriglief hot cappuccino
StarfireAlpha 1 year ago
@Spriglief He was topping off the oil in the engine, or giving it gas.
FAZER00432 1 year ago
@FAZER00432 You don't know what a radiator looks like do you? Please observe he was working from the bottom of the radiator and then tell me how you can put oil in from the bottom of an engine. Jesus, this is just plain common sense. You must go to the dealer to get your car maintenance done.
Spriglief 1 year ago
@Spriglief okay, clearly you know very little about what you are talking about and world war 1 aircraft. on the german gotha bomber, that IS where water or oil was poured into the engine for the radiator. this bomber is na 'pusher'plane'. that is where the radiator is.
squigy97 1 year ago
@squigy97 LOL, Squigy97 you don't pour oil, water, or anything into the BOTTOM of an engine. How did you miss that class on gravity that most kids get in their high chair?
Spriglief 1 year ago
@Spriglief You do if it's a resevoir tank and not the engine.
hipcat13 11 months ago
@Spriglief They used alcohol for anti freeze, dude was making a hot toddy.
supressorgrid 3 months ago
Flyboys was such a historically inaccurate movie. Nieuports used rotary engines, but they put radial engines in them. All of those fight scenes were made using CGI so there was really no excuse for that mistake.
The Fokker Triplane squadrons were also given improper colors. Most triplanes were in cameo brownish color, not black and red.
GGigabiteM 2 years ago
@GGigabiteM Yeah, I agree. It was disappointing. But you have to remember that Hollywood doesn't care about historical accuracy especially if the majority of the people that see it can't tell the difference. It would have been nice to see the majority of german planes be albatrosses since the Dr1 didn't really come out until later - and then it still was in limited supply. Somehow I knew that the triplane would have been the only german plane in the movie (other than the gotha).
gmccord1970 1 year ago
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Why do they never use Albatrosses, they were dominant when first sent out...
--Koreta
NavyfieldFanKoreta 1 year ago
It's odd that the WW1 movie would be so historically incorrect.
Most of the people seeing "Flyboys" were probably WW1 fans. You would've thought they'd have catered to them a bit more.
tetrisclock 1 year ago 25
@tetrisclock - Well experts, historians, observers & hobyists probably - I think "fans" may be a bit much.
Twirlyhead 1 year ago
@tetrisclock I agree... 1) Planes never flew that close or that fast. 2) The planes would rip apart over the G's they were doing. 3) Black people never got the privlige to fly, America was just like that...
methos319 11 months ago
In response to Black people flying, there were Black airmen, they just flew in Escadrilles, not the in America.
tetrisclock 11 months ago
@tetrisclock I'm saying it was rare to see them though...
methos319 11 months ago
@tetrisclock Oh wait woops... I'm not saying they flew in America I'm saying the americans were so racist at the time they barely flew for the Americans.
methos319 11 months ago
@methos319 - What are you talking about? They "barely" flew for the French as well.
sudaev 4 days ago
@tetrisclock For people who are airplane fanatics, such as myself, and are used to the older movies (The Blue Max, for instance), that had REAL planes in all their flying sequences, "Fly Boys" was an incredibly disappointing turd. both in the acting and the flying.
71259mark 8 months ago
@tetrisclock its called HOLLYWOOD it fails hardcore 2
DJsharp707 7 months ago
I honestly don't care who makes the movie. For all I care, Germany or France could make a movie about German/French airmen, and I'd like it if it was accurate.
I just wish SOMEONE would make a decent WW1 flick.
tetrisclock 7 months ago
@tetrisclock Ever seen "The Blue Max?" That's pretty darn good.
DEP717 5 months ago
Actually yes, I have seen "The Blue Max" it would be my favorite WW1 film, right above "All Quiet on the Western Front".
It just seems as though the number of decent WW1 films pale in comparison to the number of decent WW2 films.
It would just be nice to see someone do a WW1 piece that had the 20'th century bravado as "Saving Private Ryan". Only because modern day special effects done right can really put you inside the action.
tetrisclock 5 months ago
And I'm really hoping "War Horse" will be a good film. I was really holding out of "Flyboys" when I saw the first trailer for it. Too bad it fudged so much history and offered little in the character department.
tetrisclock 5 months ago
I thought Blue Max was a pretty good film though.
tetrisclock 7 months ago
This is flyboys
Eddyisrich403 7 months ago
@GGigabiteM You and youre damn planes. :D sup its aarchaic searchin to fix my gotha bomber
urchin34 1 year ago
Gotha G.IV (engines touches the lower wing + I saw the Gotha tunnel). Sweet planes.
Limpmania 2 years ago