TonyT Posted October 5, 2017 Share Posted October 5, 2017 Showing a scramble and his aircraft etc, Seehttp://videos.komando.com/watch/8095/kims-picks-ultra-rare-footage-of-the-most-famous-fighter-pilot-everfrom a post onhttp://www.pprune.org/military-aviation/600340-real-red-baron.html kkarlsen, Zank_Frappa, Hardcore and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1to1scale Posted October 5, 2017 Share Posted October 5, 2017 That film is so awesome! Just to think that it is 100 years old. And I noticed two things about it, how shiny his plane was, as you could see reflections in the side when they were pulling it out...and second, those pilots were basically a bunch of young chuckleheads having fun, none of them could keep a straight face for the camera. LSP_Matt, Gazzas, Bill Cross and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Out2gtcha Posted October 5, 2017 Share Posted October 5, 2017 Goering on the left about 3.11 in? Nanook and Bill Cross 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Mike Posted October 5, 2017 Share Posted October 5, 2017 Maybe 50-75m take-off run? Out2gtcha and Uncarina 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astro32 Posted October 5, 2017 Share Posted October 5, 2017 Amazing! I wonder who the R.F.C. pilot was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flipper Posted October 5, 2017 Share Posted October 5, 2017 I am not a WWI expert, but, the DrI in this footage wasn't red, was it? Gigant 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyT Posted October 5, 2017 Author Share Posted October 5, 2017 (edited) Amazing! I wonder who the R.F.C. pilot was. I think it was Bird Sopwith Pup, shot down by Manfred Von Richtofen, sept The pilot was Frederick Algernon Bird of 46 squadron and he became a POW. Edited October 5, 2017 by TonyT Gigant and Astro32 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RLWP Posted October 5, 2017 Share Posted October 5, 2017 I think it was Bird That sounds familiar. The last time (or the time before) this movie re-emerged I looked it up Richard LSP_K2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn M Posted October 5, 2017 Share Posted October 5, 2017 I am not a WWI expert, but, the DrI in this footage wasn't red, was it? nope looks like a streak finish Gigant 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RLWP Posted October 5, 2017 Share Posted October 5, 2017 nope looks like a streak finish And it's an F1 prototype, not a DR.1 It's written on the side of the aeroplane Richard Gigant and Nanook 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Mike Posted October 5, 2017 Share Posted October 5, 2017 F102/17, one of the three prototype planes sent to the front for trials. Nanook and LSP_K2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Texan Posted October 5, 2017 Share Posted October 5, 2017 Wow! Amazing film footage!!! Thanks so much for sharing this! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ssculptor Posted October 5, 2017 Share Posted October 5, 2017 I was struck by how much the laughing young German pilots looked like any group of laughing young pilots of any country. Aside from the uniforms and markings on the aircraft you couldn't tell one from another . It is such a shame that we humans have this need to fight one another. I really do not feel sad when I hear of an older person kicking the bucket. We have lived out lives and now after a suitable number of years we die. It is natural. Such is our existence on this planet. But to see young people die, that hurts. Do you think maybe that is the reason aliens circling our planet do not try to make direct contact with such a violent race of creatures such as us humans? Stephen Nanook, LSP_Paul and bevelduc 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_K2 Posted October 5, 2017 Share Posted October 5, 2017 Yep, cool footage. I used several screen caps from this movie, for the details of the 1:72 hangar that I never finished. RLWP 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazzas Posted October 5, 2017 Share Posted October 5, 2017 Goering on the left about 3.11 in? I thought so, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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