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"Dan Luke" wrote in message
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Amazing aircraft performance! For rate-of-climb, a Pitts Special has
nothing on these WW I planes, and they can pull more g's than an F-16.
Also, we see that Hollywood still believes that bullets make sparks when
they hit.

Looks like realism on about the scale of "Memphis Belle", alas.


http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/flyboys.html



I attended the showing at Oshkosh. The director , Tony Bill, explained how
he built the computer generated flight scenes by having a modern acro type
aircraft fly a whole range of maneuvers while carrying a flight recorder.
Those digitized maneuvers were then transferred into the computer
generated process to build the flying scenes. I suspect, ,it wasn't a
WW1 replica that actually flew the maneuvers.

Ben

It was Bucher Joungman (SP) that flew the scenes. Not exactly a modern acro
type.