[WWI] One more Flyboys review

[Alec E. Adamyk]

Salute all,
I will say only one thing, I loved the movie it was fantastic and reminded 
me of flying RedBaron3D with my fellow pilots all over the world weekly. The 
heck with the nitpicking . I don't care weather the aircraft was red, green 
or purple. The movie is not to be missed and thank you Hollywood for doing 
this . If it succeeds we may get more of WW1, in fact I hear of a Red Baron 
movie planned for 2007

Alec Adamyk
Rosendale. NY
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Mason" <tom.mason at charter.net>
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Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 1:07 AM
Subject: Re: [WWI] One more Flyboys review


>I went and saw Flyboys today in Madison, Wisconsin. I went to the early 
>matinee and there was just a handful people. Most were around my age which 
>is 61.
> Did anyone notice that the cowl on Black Falcon Dr. I was open in the 
> front? I have seen that on flying replicas with radial engines. On the 
> Nieu. 17 did anyone notice that the leading edge of the top wing on some 
> were straight and some were swept back? All the pilots were wearing French 
> uniforms, from all I have read they all wore and odd assortment of 
> clothing for uniforms. Technically they were mercenaries as they took no 
> oath to France because if they did they would loose there US citizenship. 
> I would like to know why there was a Bristol F2b at the field in British 
> markings. And what was with the Bleriot sitting there on the field for? 
> They got the Mascot right "Whiskey" the lion cub, by the time he was that 
> large he had been given to a zoo along with the other lion cub mascot 
> "Soda" which they don't have in the movie. Cassidy the top scoring 
> American ace in the movie has 20 kills when our intrepid heroes arrive. 
> The real top scorer Raul Lufberry had only 16 kills. And for those of you 
> have seen the movie. How about how the Black Falcon is dispatched? Also 
> the N.124 emblem of the Indian head on fuselage was to small and to far 
> back. It should have been in front of where control wires for elevator and 
> rudder enter the fuselage and behind the cockpit. Another thing I noticed 
> is that the German infantry had Y straps to support there equipment belts. 
> As far as I know this was around at this time. And the pouches on the belt 
> look to be WW II.
> It was interesting that one of the pilots was from Wisconsin, seeing that 
> I am a Wisconsinite, even if he his an inept bank robber. 51% of 
> Wisconsin's population has always been of German descent. And one last 
> thing. you would have thought that they would have using the French term 
> Boche for the Germans. Even will all that I have said I still enjoyed the 
> movie.
>
> T.O.M.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "J.R. Boye" <mercyandhope at juno.com>
> To: <wwi at wwi-models.org>
> Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2006 11:15 PM
> Subject: Re: [WWI] One more Flyboys review
>
>
>>
>>    Good comments, Myles and Ernest. I'm glad the movie is doing fine in
>> the ratings. I don't want anyone to think it isn't worth seeing, because
>> it definitely is, especially for this group !
>>     I agree that it will generate interest in WW I aviation and that is
>> a good thing.
>>
>>                                                             J.R. Boye
>>
>>             Yeah, I saw those Red Baron movie Albatros photos on-line.
>> Now THAT'S what I'm talking about ! I'll be looking for that show when it
>> is released.
>>
>>              In Flyboys, I also caught that the rotary engine on the
>> stand in the hanger rotated. A slip up ?
>>