"Dan Luke" wrote in message ...
: Amazing aircraft performance! For rate-of-climb, a Pitts Special has
: nothing on these WW I planes, and they can pull more g's than an F-16.
: Also, we see that Hollywood still believes that bullets make sparks when
: they hit.
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: Looks like realism on about the scale of "Memphis Belle", alas.
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: http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/flyboys.html
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Don't know about the 'sparks'.

The movie is based on all sorts of true information. The smoke trails were left by the guns back then, and the director
said that there were reports from the ground that the sky looked like a big spider web after some of the aerial battles.

As stated, the Bücker Jungmann was instrumented and flown to create some flight profiles for use in creating the CG, but
all the low level shots are of real planes with real pilots...

Great movie, btw...