There are actually 2 movies scheduled for release this year called Flyboys.

I am very hopeful about the WWI one. The oscar-winning director, Tony Bill, is a pilot and long-time vintage aviation enthusiast.

http://www.nd.edu/~ndmag/su2005/cafetonybill.html

Aluminum Overcast made a successful flight this afternoon. Great to see her back in the air.

I remember riding on this simulator at IWM Lambeth in about 1995. For me, it was a great idea that didn’t quite work in the execution. The motion didn’t really add anything to the stunning footage – would have worked just as well in a non-motion theatre.

looks like a CJ-6a nanchang fuselage and wings

So if the San Diego Aerospace museum was not reopened to the public, what is this?
http://www.aerospacemuseum.org/

Yes, when I met him he heard my accent and the first thing out of his mouth was “When I left England at the end of WW2 I hated the English more than I hated the Germans”. And he didn’t say it as a joke either.

Anyway I sensibly refrained from mentioning what one of his WW2 contemporaries told me…

“See the thing you need to remember is that there was a genuine fear of the sound barrier. There was a very real possibility that it was impenetrable for an aircraft, and anyone that tried to break the barrier would be killed. So next time you see Yeager acting all arrogant, keep one word on your mind… “expendable”. “

Got a chance to see the Vimy and speak with the crew when they stopped in Oshkosh yesterday. They are doing it purely with sextant, compass & drift meter. No GPS back up. Curiously we’ll all be able to watch the live feed on the internet and have a much better understanding of where they are than the crew.

Looks very much like it’s from a Swordfish to me – 3 bladed, fixed pitch metal propeller. There’s one at East Fortune from a Swordfish looks identical to this.