Gear Up Landing according to whitness.

..you mean down surely …the pictures show the gear has sheered off – except the port main which has gone through the top of the wing (tracks are quite visible in the grass)….touch-down looked to be just tens of metres from a carpark on the perimeter…looks like the pilots have done a good job.. (any landing etc…..one psgr has said he didn’t realise anything was up until he was evacuated…just a bit bumpy..)

..heads up for Volume II of the history of the premier Luftwaffe fighter unit in the defence of the Reich, JG 300, written by Jean-Yves Lorant and Richard Goyat and published by Eagle Editions. Rowan Bayliss (writing in Scale Aircraft Modelling) described Vol I as containing ‘some of the most gripping personal accounts of air combat I have ever read’. Volume II again is chock full of dramatic & thrilling first hand descriptions from the pilots caught up in some of the desperate air battles over the Reich and the Eastern Front through late 1944 and 1945 – covered in detail over 350 pages; the massive sorties over the Reich during November, December 1944, the death of Klaus Bretschneider, the Sturmgruppe on the Eastern Front during February 1945, ground attack sorties against US and Soviet armies, Wasserbomb missions against the Danube bridges, the desertion of Ernst Schroeder – plenty here to make your hair stand on end and probably one of the the last and most detailed Luftwaffe Jagdgeschwader unit histories to appear …Pages of profile artwork by Tom Tullis and co-author Richard Goyat…project translation by Neil Page….thats me …

moderators..can we make this thread a sticky ?..cheers

Flyboys

hi guys,

for those of us in the UK the full size replica aircraft constructed for the film (Nieuport, Dr. 1, Sopwith 11/2 Strutter, Gotha forward fuselage) are all on display at the RAF Manston History Museum down here in deepest Kent – having just come from there I can tell you this is well worth a visit because they look fantastic..!! ..especially the red Tripe of course …amazingly the production team was about to send all the props up in smoke after filming at RAF Halton when they got a request from the Museum…sadly no-one here seems to know when the film is being released in the UK….

RAF Manston History Museum

Flyboys

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..