WW1 film??

Rifling through the old VHS tapes, I found a documentary taped years ago off the Discovery Channel, called “Reaching for the Skies”, about the advent of the fighter plane, from World War One to the present day. The sound is bad (my neighbour’s VCR was crap!), but the pic quality is pretty nice.

However, this documentary contains a lot of footage from Aces High, The Blue Max (with the colour removed), and another film which, when I was younger, I thought might have been some old film made decades ago, but I’ve since realised that some of it appears to be from something more modern, since one of the aircraft in the footage is a Bucker Jungmann in chequerboard-like markings (complete with RFC roundels) being attacked by a Fokker Dr.1.

Does this chequerboard-painted Jungmann ring any bells with anyone? Or was it something specially shot for the documentary?

In addition, there is some nice footage of the Shuttleworth S.E.5a and LVG, and the movie footage is fantastic (despite the Jungmeister chasing a smoking Tiger Moth – while still wearing its civvy reg on the wings! :rolleyes: )