Flyboys

I have just returned from seeing this movie. One word - OUTSTANDING!

Go see it.
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Ross
C-172F 180 hp
KSWI

I have just returned from seeing this movie. One word - OUTSTANDING!

Go see it.

Agree 100%. We just got back from it, too, and I was glad to see a
good crowd in the theater, and a good buzz about the movie after the
show.

It's very well done, and the flying sequences are fantastic.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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I have just returned from seeing this movie. One word - OUTSTANDING!

Go see it.

Agree 100%. We just got back from it, too, and I was glad to see a
good crowd in the theater, and a good buzz about the movie after the
show.

It's very well done, and the flying sequences are fantastic.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"


Good but far from realistic. Not one rotary engine in the bunch and what
were those goofey back fires every time they pulled an engine through.
Also, the engine sounds weren't even close to correct.

"Dave Stadt" wrote in message
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"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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I have just returned from seeing this movie. One word - OUTSTANDING!

Go see it.

Agree 100%. We just got back from it, too, and I was glad to see a
good crowd in the theater, and a good buzz about the movie after the
show.

It's very well done, and the flying sequences are fantastic.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"


Good but far from realistic. Not one rotary engine in the bunch and what
were those goofey back fires every time they pulled an engine through.
Also, the engine sounds weren't even close to correct.




It's a moooovie...




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Good but far from realistic. Not one rotary engine in the bunch and what
were those goofey back fires every time they pulled an engine through.
Also, the engine sounds weren't even close to correct.

True, the backfires were overdone, and the Fokker triplane in a dive
sounded suspiciously like a P-47 Thunderbolt. And, as long as we're
picking nits, landing at night or in no-man's land was a bit over the
top, too.

But, hey -- it was a movie about AVIATION, and it was 95% well done.
Lot's of non-flying folks were in the crowd, and some of them will be
enamored enough with the beauty of this movie and flight in general to
head to their FBO tomorrow.

THAT can only be good.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

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"Dave Stadt" wrote in message
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"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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I have just returned from seeing this movie. One word - OUTSTANDING!

Go see it.

Agree 100%. We just got back from it, too, and I was glad to see a
good crowd in the theater, and a good buzz about the movie after the
show.

It's very well done, and the flying sequences are fantastic.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"


Good but far from realistic. Not one rotary engine in the bunch and what
were those goofey back fires every time they pulled an engine through.
Also, the engine sounds weren't even close to correct.




It's a moooovie...

.........from Hollywood. Shouldn't expect much I guess. Lotsa hype about
realism but they blew the basics.

Jay Honeck wrote:
But, hey -- it was a movie about AVIATION, and it was 95% well done.
Lot's of non-flying folks were in the crowd, and some of them will be
enamored enough with the beauty of this movie and flight in general to
head to their FBO tomorrow.

Where the planes that they can fly are only slightly more modern that
the ones in the movie...

True - but it wasn't made for pilots -
And the general public will love it -
Which can only be good for GA.
So I'm cautiously impressed !

Tony
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Tony Roberts
PP-ASEL
VFR OTT
Night
Cessna 172H C-GICE

True - but it wasn't made for pilots -
And the general public will love it -
Which can only be good for GA.
So I'm cautiously impressed !

Me, too. Incidentally, over on the "military channel"
(rec.aviation.military) some nitwit troll posted that "Flyboys" was
being stupidly Politically Correct for portraying a black man in the
role of fighter pilot, long before blacks were allowed to such things.

Out of that ignorance came information about Eugene Ballard, a black
pilot who was (apparently) the model for the black character in
Flyboys. See more about this fascinating man he

http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/a...aletteeng.html


Imagine -- this guy fought for France in many of the most titanic land
battles of World War I, and then went on to become a fighter pilot
after being injured too badly to fight in the infantry. THAT is
heroism.

I'm always amazed at what can be learned on these newsgroups -- even,
occasionally, thanks to trolls.
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Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Dave Stadt wrote:
"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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I have just returned from seeing this movie. One word - OUTSTANDING!

Go see it.

Agree 100%. We just got back from it, too, and I was glad to see a
good crowd in the theater, and a good buzz about the movie after the
show.

It's very well done, and the flying sequences are fantastic.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"



Good but far from realistic. Not one rotary engine in the bunch and what
were those goofey back fires every time they pulled an engine through.
Also, the engine sounds weren't even close to correct.

Ah, the life of the party. And the people weren't the real people from
that time either. And...

Matt