agree with Dazdaman …..looks great – provided employment for a certain number of aviation related enterprises and will probably thrill the Star Wars generation … I can’t believe the amount of petty carping going on here …some production company has spent millions producing an aviation-related film…its not a documentary ferchrissakes …go and enjoy..

Why should I enjoy rubbish?
You wouldn’t expect me to enjoy a bad game of football or a bad play or a bad book or bad restaurant meal so why this?
Your attitude seems to be that we should be thankful that someone’s been kind enough to make us an aviation film. Give me one reason why I should pay out hard earned money to indulge in something sub-standard?
Andy

And of course that’s your domain, where the greater unwashed are concerned. 😀

I’m not prejudiced, I hold everyone in an equally low regard… 🙂 😉 🙂

As in ‘X’ the Greek for unkown, and ‘Spert or Spurt’ A drip under pressure???

My version is more earthy but fundamentally the same… 🙂 🙂

What does one think of ‘Blackadder Goes Forth’, then…?

I feel much the same about it actually.
Apart from the last one where the clever writers got themselves off the hook somewhat and some of the one liners in it amuse me to a certain extent.

Blackadder has been quoted in several serious pieces about Great War tactics as to how the myth of bad generalship/tactics etc is perpetuated. Even in a BBC Timewatch programme too on Douglas Haig I think.
Just goes to show that many believe what they’re told even if it’s in a comedy show.

A.

There have been many cases of world war remains being dug by unscrupulous treasure hunters who then just dump the bones. Digging an aircraft wreck is obviously a much bigger task, but undoubtedly there are some out there who would do such a terrrible thing.

Sadly not uncommon on the Great War battlefields.
I watched ‘Trench Detectives’ last night and they had a very restrained approach and they also mentioned the digging of bodies and the dumping of remains.

I thought the French had introduced a law to prevent battlefield remains being robbed out and taken away.
A.

Deja-vu or is it me???

Mr Saunders and Mr Sarkar won’t know any of this (or bl**dy want to) but ultimately and for all time, any serious discussion on the life and times of D.R.S. Bader will arrive at this new low.

Why, oh why??
Andy

It doesn’t have to be good to be enjoyable.
See the film , have a good laugh, then try to get your money back from your mate- that should be an even bigger laugh. Then tell us all about it. 🙂

Yes, he’s coming here for our mutual friend’s annual aviation lecture at Old Warden on November 4th.
That’s a shameless plug for
‘The first Annual Aviation Lecture’ to be held at The Shuttleworth Collection on Saturday 4th November 2006.
Guest speaker Mr Andy Sephton, followed by a buffet lunch and then in the afternoon a guided tour of the collection and a behind the scenes look at the old place. Cost £35.00 or £30.00 for SVAS members.INTERESTED???–post here.

Most jump ships travel faster than the skydiver will be falling on jump run.

If the jolt can break a skydivers training shoe lace and the nylon chin strap of a camera helmet then it’s quite a jolt (camera helmets have double nylon straps so are tougher than a normal helmet). On the deployment of a skydivers reserve the skydiver is at sub terminal velocity because you have to remember that the skydiver WANTS to get his/her reserve out as quickly as possible. A fighter pilot in a battle would’t deploy immediately as I am sure he didn’t want to be under canopy with all those bullets and fighters zooming around so at what minimum altitude would a Spitfire pilot deploy? If he fell away it’s very possible that he was at terminal velocity when he went for the pull a terminal opening of a round parachute would have seriously spanked him. If the skydiver, who’s lace and helmet strap broke at sub-terminal velocity then a terminal opening could quite possibly have ripped off the tin leg do you not think. I have done a terminal opening of a square reserve and the bruises were so bad that you could make out the clear shape of the leg strap buckle on my thigh for a few days afterwards. My square parachute has a slider which is to retard the opening and the round parachutes don’t have such a feature. If the terminal square opening spanked me, a round opening must have been seriously painful.

Ali

Thanks Ali,
I think had the leg still been in situ in the aeroplane, then if it had impacted in the way the experts seem to think then it would have taken more than a bit of local German ingenuity to have repaired it.

I’ve never made a parachute jump myself but an old mate of mine now sadly deceased had made a number of descents on WW2 parachutes and told stories about the damage done to the more delicate parts of man which made my eyes water!!!

In closing, several people have commented on this thread (and a few others) being unseemly. I couldn’t disagree more, I actually think we’re finally getting some serious debate going and a few myths are being debunked.
If anyone thinks this sort of stuff isn’t good, lets go back to ‘the will it be at Legends’ rubbish.
Andy