Look like CG, but I could be wrong. Not played Blue Max (Although I did play the C-64 game by the same name!), but I played a WWII game which was apparently based partly on that and Angels One Five.
Are there any original planes still flying? It's been 90 odd years, but THAT would be something worth seeing. They're really something anyways though......
Nice pics merlin! I always suspected that New Zealand was full of Fokkers Always had a thing for WW1 aviation, I've been meaning to see that new movie "flyboys" for a while... Hopefully its as good as the Blue Max (the movie this time )
I recently visited the Aviation museum in Ottawa and they are currently putting together a Sopwith Triplane replica. One of the intereseting features is a small propellor mounted on a strut near the pilot. This was a little wind driven gasoline pump. Until the speed had built up enough to turn the prop, the pilot to hand pump the gas into the engine.
great pic ,merlin.....i was amazed to learn those old rotary wwi engines had no throttle and relied on spark magneto only to regulate power ...in other words full throttle always but you could cut off spark to slow engine ...yipes!!
Yes Turning your engine on and off to reduce power/speed Although it was possible for some engines to cut of a few cylinders by cutting the spark to them generating some sort of throttle by the coupe-switch Imagine a 747 turning it's engines on and off when it wants to land....
The Shuttleworth Collection in Britain has some orginal aircraft in flying condition which date back to pre-WW1 http://www.shuttleworth.org/shuttleworth_aircraft.asp
Albert Ball That SE5A pilot in the background is sensibly giving all those Fokkers a miss, but if he was Albert Ball he'd have mixed it with them all and probably scratched most of 'em ! BG
Sorry Merlin, the picture looked computer generated to me. There's so much CG stuff around these days and it's becoming so good that it's becoming hard some times to differentiate between original footage and images and computer generated ones.
But how can you be certain, Simon, if it's so hard to tell CG from the real thing? BTW, you're right, it is getting harder to tell them apart, but I can usually do so. CG, good as it's gotten in recent years, still looks just a little bit unreal to me in most movies.
