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Flyboys Movie: the aircraft
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"Dave" wrote: There's no question they had a few "Top Gun" moments. The climbs were a little out of whack also. showing the pilots grimacing as they hauled back on the stick and climbed up to meet the foe. If you look at the real climb to height of WW1 fighters, it isn't spectacular. Didn't hurt much for me, it Frank Tallman wrote in "Flying the Old Planes" that the _rate_ of climb was impressive for most WW-1 types, due to their low wing and span loading and high torque of the slow turning propellers. "Everything else occured in slow motion" (quoting from memory). |
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