2 things; the average height of a human male is 5'8". Also, the length of the original Enterprise, as stated in ALL original references(including "The Making of Star Trek") is 947 ft. Somehow she seems to have lost 11 ft to the metric system. Otherwise a great vid...PS
The reason it looks like Brian's D.8 is because it IS Brian's D.8. After several years at ORA, Kermit bought it about 6 years ago. He brought it to the '05 Dawn Patrol in Dayton, where he used it for rotary demo's. Oddly, he didn't fly it(probably due to insurance, which was rather steep as I rec...
Von Richthofen did fly the D.V and Va while the triplane was grounded, though he actually preferred the D.III.
There are 2 original Va's left, one in Australia and the other at the Smithsonian( Air & Space); neither is airworthy . There are also several replica's out there; this one is now the be...
2 things; the average height of a human male is 5'8". Also, the length of the original Enterprise, as stated in ALL original references(including "The Making of Star Trek") is 947 ft. Somehow she seems to have lost 11 ft to the metric system. Otherwise a great vid...PS