Seeing all those DR1's in the sky at the same time is just awesome!! Been a fan of Richthofen and this aeroplane since I was a kid in the 70's. I wish that they had made a dual seat or trainer version of this plane, as the number 1 thing on my bucket list is to fly in one. Hell you could strap me to the bottom of it on some sort of rig like a bomb. Haha. As much as I like modern jets like the F-15 and the F-4, this is real flying. To be up there in a kite like that. Literally, these guys are flying the closest thing to flying on their own. Nothing but the thin skin on the plane, and an engine and a frame. This was a very great video to watch and to see them all flying at the same time gave me goose bumps and my hairs stand to attention. Absolutely a great video, thank you for posting!
It is sad how all WW1 Fokker Dr.I planes were destroyed. The last one was actually in a Museum in Berlin as part of Herman Gorings collection but was destroyed in an allied air raid in 1943 I believe.
Some of the best video of these aircraft in flight I've ever seen. Love to see these old crates banking and turning as shown here! This was the age when flight meant using the airflow over the wings to provide lift instead of a monster engine shoving the aircraft through the air. There's nothing more majestic than a WWI aircraft in flight.
People don't believe me when I tell them that technically a 747 doesn't actually fly. It's more akin to water skiing through the sky! I then ask them "why is it that you have to walk up hill when you are walking back to your seat from the lav?"
Seeing the group photo of Jasta 11 reminds me of the first time I saw the album cover for Led Zeppelin II and immediately recognized that they used a photo of Manfred Von Richthofen's Jasta 11 as the basis of the cover. The old World War I photos are quite interesting to look at. The Fokker DR1's in this video are amazing. The sound of the engines kind of chilling. This time period was too much with these infant planes and the brave men that flew them. The Flying Circus with it's colored planes is a sight to behold but I'd imagine scary for allied pilots back in the day.
My favorite type of plane, since I was a kid. No telling how many Revell DR-1 model kits I assembled back then, all painted like the Baron's of course! Great video, thanks for sharing!
Same here, except most of my Triplane models were the old cheap 1/48 scale Aurora kits you'd get at the dime store. I must have made a couple dozen of them. But like nearly all my models I made as a kid, they didn't last longer than a couple weeks.
Man and machine and nothing there in between A flying circus and a man from Prussia The sky and a plane, this man commands his domain The western front and all the way to Russia Death from above, you're under fire Stained red as blood, he's roaming higher Born a soldier from the horseback to the skies That's where the legend will arise And he's flying Higher, the king of the sky He's flying too fast and he's flying too high Higher, an eye for an eye The legend will never die First to the scene he is a lethal machine It's Bloody April and the tide is turning Fire at will it is the thrill of the kill Four in a day shot down with engines burning Embrace the fame, red squadron leader Call out his name, Rote Kampfflieger In the game to win, a gambler rolls the dice Eighty allies paid the price And he's flying Higher, the king of the sky He's flying too fast and he's flying too high Higher, an eye for an eye The legend will never die Higher Higher, the king of the sky He's flying too fast and he's flying too high Higher, an eye for an eye The legend will never die Higher Born a soldier from the horseback to the skies And the legend never dies And he's flying And he's flying And he's flying Higher, the king of the sky He's flying too fast and he's flying too high Higher, an eye for an eye The legend will never die Higher, the king of the sky He's flying too fast and he's flying too high Higher, an eye for an eye The legend will never die (The Red Baron - Sabaton)
I have seen many of these videos, can't say just how I missed this one. I am stunned to have seen this and want to move to New Zealand now just to watch them in person !! Job well done Lads !
My hat's off to all those at New Zealand that bring all this live action history to the public. Outstanding work on all aspects. Big thanks for bringing the historical past life back again.
It's hard to believe the guys who would have originally flown these were about my age. Most people think of us as children these days. I can't even imagine being a part of the squadron. Great video, I hope to be given a ride in something like this some day. Brian
I'm 65 now, old fart, I was stationed in West Germany in the 70s and I dreamed of being able to go for a ride in one of these airplanes ( Fokker DR ) over Germany especially over the battlefields of 'The Bulge' since I was stationed at Air Force Bases in that area. Never got to do it, sadly, it was one of the things on my 'wish list' before I die; now they call it 'the bucket list' and every time I hear that phrase it makes me laugh because of a scene at the beginning of the movie 'It's A Mad Mad Mad World' where Jimmy Durante kicks a bucket down the hill just as he dies. I hope You get to fly in one of those WWI biplanes or tri-planes before You kick the bucket Best of Luck to You.
The reason for the camouflage was not against ground troops but against enemy aircraft. Even if you could actually see them, the colour schemes were designed for the purpose of distraction against the eyes. A split second indescion could mean the difference between life and death. That was the actual purpose of aircraft camouflage. Sometimes underneath the aircraft was also painted blue or blueish grey to camouflage against ground troops. Thinking behind that ploy was very simple. You could definitely hear them but you could not see them, and that's the name of the game. Survival.
I'm surprised that one of those planes wasn't redone to replicate Hermann Goering's machine. He served with Richtofen, scored at least 20 kills, and was awarded the Blue Max.
Or Werner Voss. He was well up on the leader board for kills and his Fokker had one of the more distinctive schemes. Anyone who's ever seen the cowling of his plane, with the eyes and the mustache painted on, remembers it. His final battle is considered one of the most epic dogfights in WWI.
I was hoping to see Wolfram Von Richthofens plane. He was the Red Barons younger cousin and a later member of his squad added in early 1918. His first mission with the squadron was actually Manfred’s last. He went on to score 8 victories in what most sources say was a dark green Fokker Dr.I and he was later a Field Marshal in WW2.
@Lightworker VonHelton It was the Fokker D.VII (which started replacing the Dr. 1 by mid 1918) which Goering operated and applied an entirely white paint scheme.
Great to see these other colour schemes apart from the famous Red Baron's. It really does bring the unit back to life. Pretty and cute to modern eyes, but seeing a swarm of these babies coming up behind would be nightmare to the back seater in the likes of an RE8. On both sides, brave men one and all.
Excellent video. I saw all these aircraft, and the new all-black eighth Triplane, at the 2015 Classic Fighters airshow. Great weekend. My first air show since I was a teenager.
WOW! That' beautiful. It's just amazing to see those old aircraft in the air. I know they're replicas (cuz nothing that old would have survived for so long) but it's still just wonderful. Thanks for sharing.
The Omaka Aviation Heritage Centre, next door to the airfield, has an extensive World War 1 display, including a tableau of the scene after Von Richthofen was shot down. It shows Australian soldiers swarming over the crashed aircraft, cutting bits off it as souvenirs, while two soldiers remove the pilot's boots. One of the soldiers is shown removing the cross from the right side of the fuselage and, hanging on the wall nearby, is the original cross. For anyone visiting Blenheim, spending a few hours in this most excellent museum is well worth the time.
This is amazing - the recreation of the JASTA 11 flying unit - I am Going to look more into this - The real flying unit - with the colour scemes correct - & those beautiful DR1 planes - To see one DR1 would be a thrill ! - To see all 7 fly in formation would truely be a dream ! - Really would ! Thankyou for sharing this short Docu ! SB - British Isles
the beauty of these old birds is so unique. it is not as advanced as the new jets today, but it gives you a feeling that you can build it in your garage and fly it to the sky like riding a bike, though actually, it's much more difficult.
Absolutely love this display! I actually have some models of the triplane, I currently have the colors of Manfred Von Richthofen (152/17), Hans Weiss, and Johaness Janzen of Jasta 6 Edit: I’m currently trying to get more of these models, the company that makes them is CORGI, very high quality die cast metal would recommend buying from them!
This is really cool to see. I am a bit late to the party, but it was cool to hear a bit about each pilot of the Flying Circus. Thanks for the post & well made video.
I never knew WHY this plane was so much more superior to the Sopwith Camel and the Fokker DVII. However, just hearing the engine tells me everything I need to know. This was a massive step up in engine technology compared to those older planes. Aren't we lucky to be able to see and hear these wonderful aircraft more than a century after the war has ended.
One of the reasons was the short fuselage, which gave it a smaller turning circle . But it was slower , also not the easiest plane to land . It needed an expert pilot to fly it. . The wing loading would have been less also . But being slower if things got a little sticky it would have to stay and fight . Unless there was good cloud cover of course .
@@No.10_SopwithMan As a kid I came to that conclusion, while mucking around with balsa models, control line planes and the Hobby Co plastic control line planes.... that and the 'hell ton' of hours spent 'nose in books', researching these planes as a teenage boy!!!
attending the Omaka Classic fighters, when this vid was shot was a once in a lifetime experience as European by flying over there on occasion of a business trip to SIN 😊. But who knows, when they let us fly there still next Easter 2025 I will make a repeater. Have seen many airshows, but this one is the greatest for me in all aspects
Sure they were, but over time some of the records have been lost/destroyed and there's no evidence of which pilot/s flew a Dr.1 wit this colour scheme, despite the fact that photos exist of the aircraft.
_Man and Machine_ _And nothing there in between_ _The Flying Circus and a man from Prussia!_ _The sky and his plane_ _The man commands his domain_ _The Western Front all the way to Russia!_
Reminds me of playing Red Baron by Dynamix in 1991. Got to fly a Triplane alongside a computer Baron a few times. I've tried playing the sim again in recent times but could never recapture the original feeling.
Sadly I think the thrill of playing those early flight sims was something that's hard to recapture -- they were so amazing for their time. While current sims are so much better in almost all respects, it's just not quite the same.... ;-)
amazig video and great history mate. cheers from the USA! the closest we have to accurate replicas for functional Great War reenacting is an FT-17 made of plywood! I could only wish to have grown up to see this at an airshow.
+Chris Ross If you're ever in NewYork, make the trip to Ol'Rhine-beck Aerodrome in Rhine-beck, NewYork. Quite a number of their WWI A/C are either all original or cobbled together and they also have a number of accurate reproductions. DVII, Dr.1, Albatross, Sopwith, Newport, to list a few.
@@justinharvey1355 Voss was in Jagdgeschwader I, a large fighter wing made up of 4 fighter units/Jastas. It was commended by the Red Baron so technically he was part of the Richthofen squad.
Even from last century, those 3 wings, or Tri-Plane(s) command respect! It's neat to learn about The Red Baron and his Squadron! We're the 3 wing configurations out-maneuvere the bi-planes? Interesting info about the what we would call the Swastika (albeit backwards) having a good luck meaning! Thank you for a beautiful history lesson!
Sorry, not a single one of these Dr.1s is using one of the reverse engineered Oberursels. There's a single Continental radials in there and all the rest ar Warner Scarab radials. Maybe one day they'll be re-engined....
When you said about the Fokker aircraft I immediately thought of that old joke about the Dutch airman who flew with the RAF. he was reminiscing about the time he was attacked by three aircraft, " I vos attacked by three Fokkers", some people started giggling and an RAF officer explained Fokkers are a type of German aircraft, the Dutch Ace added, " Ja und these fokkers ver Messerschmitts!"
Remember that the originals had a two some inch fore-and-aft CG envelope. All the pilot had to do was lean, and aircraft was unstable, either nose or tail heavy. Add to that the engine torque, and it's gyroscopic effect, and that too steep a dive would peel the fabric off the underside of the top wing. (They found that if they moved the seam back a few inches, the fabric stayed in place.) What's that clanging when the pilots walked? Father knew an old man who flew them, for the Kaiser, in Chicago, back in the 40's
So much wrong with your statement. For starters, the CG range was more like 10 inches. No you would not feel a change in CG by leaning fore and aft. No the fabric was not seamed laterally aft of the leading edge. That stupid mistake was made by the French on the Nieuport 28. And NO the fabric did not peel off the undersides of the wings. The early Dr1s did however suffer from Aileron failure at the false spar location. The only thing you mentioned correct was the bit about the rotary engines.
The triplanes had a lot of lift produced by the three wings, allowing the aircraft to be physically smaller and more manuverable. But the three wings also caused a lot of drag and so they weren't fast aircraft.
@GunslingerXXI You did your homework. But the name origin, has more a literary background. And if you are unfamiliar with the German literature of the baroque, the solution to this task is almost impossible. And even if it were you, it would still be a little bit encrypted ...
While the bright colors may have influenced the name 'Flying Circus" veterans claimed it was the fact that the unit traveled on trains looking like Circuses as was common before (and after ) the war.
A Canadian in a regular plane took out the R Baron and his triplane - shows no matter how good you are, you let your guard down and you can in nano moments become anyone's game.
Well that's not true, they researched all the evidence, and they concluded that not Captain Brown downed him but most likely an Australian soldier named Snowy Evans, or maybe Sergeant Cedric Popkin, both are Australian. It's still not 100% proven but it's almost 99% proven that the shot came from the ground.
This is correct! The fire or shot came from an Australian position due to the fact the bullet entered under Manfred's armpit and came out his neck. One lucky (or rather unlucky) shot!
Sorry Canada ,, he was shot down by an Aussie ground gunner. Brown was a little too far high and far from MvR's 6. .He did make a valiant attempt a dove hard But and burst of he guns 99% missed . MvR was hit with 1 .303. On His side , most likely banked alittle wing low toward the ground fire. even in his combat Carrere Richthofen was shot down 3 times . his luck although had ran out on the third.
Sgt Cedric Popkin scored the fatal hit from 600 yards away with a .303 caliber bullet. A literal "one in a million" shot from that distance, shooting at a fast moving target...
The squadron had a high reputation before the Red Baron took over. Most members had been hand-picked. Richthofen's mentor was the prior squad leader. They were called the flying circus because they could pick up and move to a new base very easily, and did so often, similar to a circus, not because of their paint schemes.
The Fokker Dr.I was a plane for specialists and accomplished fighter pilots. With it's exceptional rate of climb and maneuverability, it was a deadly craft indeed. But the lack of airspeed and visibility would tend to be a coffin for less experienced pilots. I always thought The Flying Circus moniker was due to the outrageous colors of the aircraft. It had a much more important role....they moved from location to location, based upon need, just like a traveling circus would do. Great video! I'd like to know what happened to those original fabric coverings!
von Richthofen used a total of 5 triplanes to score 19 victories. All of them had blue undersides and a variety of colour schemes. The only time that 425/17 wore the Balkan cross was on the fatal flight. All the others had the Cross Patee. 425/17 MAY have had a white cowling.
In the old days they used (shorter) silk scarves to a) stop chafing around their necks due to coarse wool clothing, and b) wipe castor oil off their goggles. These days it is just to look cool AF! ;-)
Motor original es el Oberursel rotatorio y esos aviones no lo llevan. Hoy en día se fabrican motores rotatorios réplicas Gnome que son casi igual al Oberursel.
As this is playing, I'm watching the Fokkers in flight and hearing Wagner in my head. Maybe I can get the image of flying toasters out of my mind whenever I hear Ride of the Valkyries, replaced with war machines from a vanished time.
Seeing all those DR1's in the sky at the same time is just awesome!! Been a fan of Richthofen and this aeroplane since I was a kid in the 70's. I wish that they had made a dual seat or trainer version of this plane, as the number 1 thing on my bucket list is to fly in one. Hell you could strap me to the bottom of it on some sort of rig like a bomb. Haha. As much as I like modern jets like the F-15 and the F-4, this is real flying. To be up there in a kite like that. Literally, these guys are flying the closest thing to flying on their own. Nothing but the thin skin on the plane, and an engine and a frame. This was a very great video to watch and to see them all flying at the same time gave me goose bumps and my hairs stand to attention. Absolutely a great video, thank you for posting!
Fokker Dr.1 triplane is just a gorgeous plane. I recently became obsessed with Manfred von Richthofen, and I really enjoy this video.
The Red Baron was the worthiest of adversaries. Glad to see folks keeping these magnificent crates in the air...
It is sad how all WW1 Fokker Dr.I planes were destroyed. The last one was actually in a Museum in Berlin as part of Herman Gorings collection but was destroyed in an allied air raid in 1943 I believe.
Some of the best video of these aircraft in flight I've ever seen. Love to see these old crates banking and turning as shown here! This was the age when flight meant using the airflow over the wings to provide lift instead of a monster engine shoving the aircraft through the air. There's nothing more majestic than a WWI aircraft in flight.
Got to agree! Flying on the wing is much more graceful than brute force and ignorance! 😊
People don't believe me when I tell them that technically a 747 doesn't actually fly. It's more akin to water skiing through the sky!
I then ask them "why is it that you have to walk up hill when you are walking back to your seat from the lav?"
@@doraexplora9046 That's called flying.. Good God.. 🙄🙄
@@andrewlabat9963 That's not technically flying. That's surfing the air! "'Good God"'
@@doraexplora9046Same thing...
Seeing the group photo of Jasta 11 reminds me of the first time I saw the album cover for Led Zeppelin II and immediately recognized that they used a photo of Manfred Von Richthofen's Jasta 11 as the basis of the cover. The old World War I photos are quite interesting to look at. The Fokker DR1's in this video are amazing. The sound of the engines kind of chilling. This time period was too much with these infant planes and the brave men that flew them. The Flying Circus with it's colored planes is a sight to behold but I'd imagine scary for allied pilots back in the day.
oh wow i didn't know that, thanks,i learnt something new today.
My favorite type of plane, since I was a kid.
No telling how many Revell DR-1 model kits I assembled back then, all painted like the Baron's of course!
Great video, thanks for sharing!
@Dirk Pitt
Personally I'd do plenty of different schemes, but with more of the mottled splotched paint jobs than not.
Haha I did the Red Baron kit also
Same here, except most of my Triplane models were the old cheap 1/48 scale Aurora kits you'd get at the dime store. I must have made a couple dozen of them. But like nearly all my models I made as a kid, they didn't last longer than a couple weeks.
Man and machine and nothing there in between
A flying circus and a man from Prussia
The sky and a plane, this man commands his domain
The western front and all the way to Russia
Death from above, you're under fire
Stained red as blood, he's roaming higher
Born a soldier from the horseback to the skies
That's where the legend will arise
And he's flying
Higher, the king of the sky
He's flying too fast and he's flying too high
Higher, an eye for an eye
The legend will never die
First to the scene he is a lethal machine
It's Bloody April and the tide is turning
Fire at will it is the thrill of the kill
Four in a day shot down with engines burning
Embrace the fame, red squadron leader
Call out his name, Rote Kampfflieger
In the game to win, a gambler rolls the dice
Eighty allies paid the price
And he's flying
Higher, the king of the sky
He's flying too fast and he's flying too high
Higher, an eye for an eye
The legend will never die
Higher
Higher, the king of the sky
He's flying too fast and he's flying too high
Higher, an eye for an eye
The legend will never die
Higher
Born a soldier from the horseback to the skies
And the legend never dies
And he's flying
And he's flying
And he's flying
Higher, the king of the sky
He's flying too fast and he's flying too high
Higher, an eye for an eye
The legend will never die
Higher, the king of the sky
He's flying too fast and he's flying too high
Higher, an eye for an eye
The legend will never die
(The Red Baron - Sabaton)
I was playing this in my head throughout the video - thanks
Fascinating historical material. Despite being a lifelong pacifist I can't fail to admire the skill and patriotism of these brave pilots.
Same . I hate weapons used in war and weapons in general... but the technology and history of the planes and ships is very interesting to me.
I have seen many of these videos, can't say just how I missed this one. I am stunned to have seen this and want to move to New Zealand now just to watch them in person !! Job well done Lads !
My hat's off to all those at New Zealand that bring all this live action history to the public. Outstanding work on all aspects. Big thanks for bringing the historical past life back again.
What I wouldn’t give to have them fly at the next air show. A true snapshot of history
That is just plain wrong - no one should be allowed that much fun!
Unless it's me.
SO COOL!! I love that rough sounding engine rumble, and that awesome wooshing sound they make when they fly past you
It's hard to believe the guys who would have originally flown these were about my age. Most people think of us as children these days. I can't even imagine being a part of the squadron. Great video, I hope to be given a ride in something like this some day.
Brian
I'm 65 now, old fart, I was stationed in West Germany in the 70s and I dreamed of being able to go for a ride in one of these airplanes ( Fokker DR ) over Germany especially over the battlefields of 'The Bulge' since I was stationed at Air Force Bases in that area. Never got to do it, sadly, it was one of the things on my 'wish list' before I die; now they call it 'the bucket list' and every time I hear that phrase it makes me laugh because of a scene at the beginning of the movie 'It's A Mad Mad Mad World' where Jimmy Durante kicks a bucket down the hill just as he dies. I hope You get to fly in one of those WWI biplanes or tri-planes before You kick the bucket Best of Luck to You.
Wow , just wow !
I never thought I would live to see such a sight ,
fantastic !
They are pretty awesome!
@@HistAvFilmUnit Yes they are , wonderful ! 😀
the real flyboys from WW I had balls as big as grapefruit flying generally experimental aircraft !!!
Thank you again, New Zealand guys!! Awesome video and impressive documentation! You guys rule!!!
I love how some of them painted their planes so they would be camouflaged, as if these planes could sneak up on anyone with those engines.
Some pilots would kill their engine on the approach. Rickenbacker I believe was one of these.
Also- with your own engine running I'm sure it could be difficult to hear your enemy when they are a ways away.
The bright colours would make recognition easier during the melee.
@@ianreed1528 like Knights !
The reason for the camouflage was not against ground troops but against enemy aircraft. Even if you could actually see them, the colour schemes were designed for the purpose of distraction against the eyes. A split second indescion could mean the difference between life and death. That was the actual purpose of aircraft camouflage. Sometimes underneath the aircraft was also painted blue or blueish grey to camouflage against ground troops. Thinking behind that ploy was very simple. You could definitely hear them but you could not see them, and that's the name of the game. Survival.
Excellent. My favorite paint scheme was to be the black and yellow Lola from the film The Great Waldo Pepper.
I'm surprised that one of those planes wasn't redone to replicate Hermann Goering's machine. He served with Richtofen, scored at least 20 kills, and was awarded the Blue Max.
Or Werner Voss. He was well up on the leader board for kills and his Fokker had one of the more distinctive schemes. Anyone who's ever seen the cowling of his plane, with the eyes and the mustache painted on, remembers it. His final battle is considered one of the most epic dogfights in WWI.
I was hoping to see Wolfram Von Richthofens plane. He was the Red Barons younger cousin and a later member of his squad added in early 1918. His first mission with the squadron was actually Manfred’s last. He went on to score 8 victories in what most sources say was a dark green Fokker Dr.I and he was later a Field Marshal in WW2.
They also left out Ernst Udet.
@Lightworker VonHelton
It was the Fokker D.VII (which started replacing the Dr. 1 by mid 1918) which Goering operated and applied an entirely white paint scheme.
SHEER BRILLIANCE...............Danke for posting !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Glad you enjoyed it.
Great to see these other colour schemes apart from the famous Red Baron's. It really does bring the unit back to life. Pretty and cute to modern eyes, but seeing a swarm of these babies coming up behind would be nightmare to the back seater in the likes of an RE8. On both sides, brave men one and all.
Excellent video. I saw all these aircraft, and the new all-black eighth Triplane, at the 2015 Classic Fighters airshow. Great weekend. My first air show since I was a teenager.
WOW! That' beautiful. It's just amazing to see those old aircraft in the air. I know they're replicas (cuz nothing that old would have survived for so long) but it's still just wonderful. Thanks for sharing.
Shuttle worth has a couple of original WW I aircraft. Their SE5a was built in 1917, I believe. Search on RUclips, it's a joy to watch.
sopwithcamelus Yep, and an original Blériot XI is still in flying condition, having been built in 1909. Also at Shuttleworth!
should also include Werner Voss and Kurt Wolfe
Seeing these near 1:1 reproductions of these Fokkers in flight really shows just how fast they were for their time
Sabaton, 6 years after this video was released: "it's free real state" *writes "The Red Baron" *
Wow! Awesome!
This is the first time the Jasta Dr.1s flew together in formation since the Great War! 🇩🇪👍👏
In 1992 at Lake Guntersville Alabama 6 Fokker dr 1 flew at an airshow .
Such a beautiful plane.
and you sure know about planes Buddy !..... BLAM!!!!
Excellent vid!
The Omaka Aviation Heritage Centre, next door to the airfield, has an extensive World War 1 display, including a tableau of the scene after Von Richthofen was shot down. It shows Australian soldiers swarming over the crashed aircraft, cutting bits off it as souvenirs, while two soldiers remove the pilot's boots.
One of the soldiers is shown removing the cross from the right side of the fuselage and, hanging on the wall nearby, is the original cross.
For anyone visiting Blenheim, spending a few hours in this most excellent museum is well worth the time.
Man that's sad.. I mean the man's boots. Disrespectful ☹️
Tri planes are the most air worthy planes ever made; just awesome machines !!!
Good grief, they are awesome! boy that red paint job really sets off that bird. Man listen to that rotary engine growl. Keep em flying!
Excellent videography! And history!
Thank you very much! Lots more like it on Historical Machines TV (www.historicalmachines.tv)
wow what an incredible documentary and history recap.
No colour of werner voss???
Nice looking planes. Very well restored.
Most fantastic thing Ive ever seen, thanks.
This is amazing - the recreation of the JASTA 11 flying unit - I am Going to look more into this - The real flying unit - with the colour scemes correct - & those beautiful DR1 planes - To see one DR1 would be a thrill ! - To see all 7 fly in formation would truely be a dream ! - Really would !
Thankyou for sharing this short Docu ! SB - British Isles
Beautiful flying and great narratives 😎
The Red Baron is back. Yessss
Thanks a lot for sharing, this is very interesting!
Good informations and great pictures!
Beautiful footage
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Thanks! I'm sure the closer we get to 100k the slower RUclips makes it happen!
Absolutely fantastic!
It's my dream to fly a Dr.1 sometime
Wow!!! Wonderful to see all these tripes. I like the fact that they all had a touch of Red. I know why too. Lol
the beauty of these old birds is so unique. it is not as advanced as the new jets today, but it gives you a feeling that you can build it in your garage and fly it to the sky like riding a bike, though actually, it's much more difficult.
the seventh jasta 11 pilot at the end sounds like video game main character where the protagonist doesn't usually talk and keeps their face hidden.
The triplanes are menacing even now. Imagine the terror back then.
Excellent video, great shooting and script.
Absolutely love this display! I actually have some models of the triplane, I currently have the colors of Manfred Von Richthofen (152/17), Hans Weiss, and Johaness Janzen of Jasta 6
Edit: I’m currently trying to get more of these models, the company that makes them is CORGI, very high quality die cast metal would recommend buying from them!
This is really cool to see. I am a bit late to the party, but it was cool to hear a bit about each pilot of the Flying Circus. Thanks for the post & well made video.
beautiful aeroplanes
Thank you for the information
No worries!
I never knew WHY this plane was so much more superior to the Sopwith Camel and the Fokker DVII. However, just hearing the engine tells me everything I need to know. This was a massive step up in engine technology compared to those older planes. Aren't we lucky to be able to see and hear these wonderful aircraft more than a century after the war has ended.
Actually, the camel and d.vii were both better in most respects. Also, the d.vii was the best plane of the war.
One of the reasons was the short fuselage, which gave it a smaller turning circle . But it was slower , also not the easiest plane to land . It needed an expert pilot to fly it. . The wing loading would have been less also . But being slower if things got a little sticky it would have to stay and fight . Unless there was good cloud cover of course .
@@No.10_SopwithMan As a kid I came to that conclusion, while mucking around with balsa models, control line planes and the Hobby Co plastic control line planes.... that and the 'hell ton' of hours spent 'nose in books', researching these planes as a teenage boy!!!
attending the Omaka Classic fighters, when this vid was shot was a once in a lifetime experience as European by flying over there on occasion of a business trip to SIN 😊. But who knows, when they let us fly there still next Easter 2025 I will make a repeater. Have seen many airshows, but this one is the greatest for me in all aspects
That was really interesting and well done. Thanks for the efforts!
The final plane had the coolest color scheme IMHO. Mystery pilot? How could that be? The Germans were meticulous record keepers.
Sure they were, but over time some of the records have been lost/destroyed and there's no evidence of which pilot/s flew a Dr.1 wit this colour scheme, despite the fact that photos exist of the aircraft.
@Richard Porter Excellent point!
It could be any one of us!
Assuming time travel gets invented, that is...
@Richard Porter Goering's plane was solid white
@Richard Porter Görings was white I think m8
Glorious
_Man and Machine_
_And nothing there in between_
_The Flying Circus and a man from Prussia!_
_The sky and his plane_
_The man commands his domain_
_The Western Front all the way to Russia!_
Death from above you are under fire
Stained red as blood, he’s roaming higher!
Born a soldier from the horseback to the skies.
That's where the legend will arise!
Higher, the king of the skies. He's flying too fast and he's flying too high!
Higher! An eye for an eye, the legend will never die
Absolutely Beautiful. . . . . . .
Awesome,, magic to fly a peace of history.
Reminds me of playing Red Baron by Dynamix in 1991. Got to fly a Triplane alongside a computer Baron a few times. I've tried playing the sim again in recent times but could never recapture the original feeling.
Sadly I think the thrill of playing those early flight sims was something that's hard to recapture -- they were so amazing for their time. While current sims are so much better in almost all respects, it's just not quite the same.... ;-)
amazig video and great history mate. cheers from the USA! the closest we have to accurate replicas for functional Great War reenacting is an FT-17 made of plywood! I could only wish to have grown up to see this at an airshow.
+Chris Ross If you're ever in NewYork, make the trip to Ol'Rhine-beck Aerodrome in Rhine-beck, NewYork. Quite a number of their WWI A/C are either all original or cobbled together and they also have a number of accurate reproductions. DVII, Dr.1, Albatross, Sopwith, Newport, to list a few.
Jasta11... best Warthunder nic I've heard
Awesome camera work
Awesome! Great video!
Wow. I thought for sure Werner Voss would be on that list
Same. Voss, Herman Goring, Wolfram Von Richthofen and Ernst Udets planes should here been here too.
Voss was in command of a a different group, that being Jasta 10. Although he was great friends with the Richthofen Bros.
@@justinharvey1355 Voss was in Jagdgeschwader I, a large fighter wing made up of 4 fighter units/Jastas. It was commended by the Red Baron so technically he was part of the Richthofen squad.
Even from last century, those 3 wings, or Tri-Plane(s) command respect! It's neat to learn about The Red Baron and his Squadron! We're the 3 wing configurations out-maneuvere the bi-planes? Interesting info about the what we would call the Swastika (albeit backwards) having a good luck meaning! Thank you for a beautiful history lesson!
That's supposed to read "Would the 3 wing..." Thank you!
most excellent re-engineered Oberursel rotary engines in those DR-1 triplanes !!!
Sorry, not a single one of these Dr.1s is using one of the reverse engineered Oberursels. There's a single Continental radials in there and all the rest ar Warner Scarab radials. Maybe one day they'll be re-engined....
When you said about the Fokker aircraft I immediately thought of that old joke about the Dutch airman who flew with the RAF. he was reminiscing about the time he was attacked by three aircraft, " I vos attacked by three Fokkers", some people started giggling and an RAF officer explained Fokkers are a type of German aircraft, the Dutch Ace added, " Ja und these fokkers ver Messerschmitts!"
Any oldie, but a goodie! ;-)
"We're coming over, we're coming over. And we won't come back till it's over over there!"
Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen, The Cavalrymen of the Skies.. 🔥🔥
This is the greatest video ever thank you much 🙏🙏🙏🙏
Wow, thanks
This is so cool.
That is quite a sight !
The three wings allows a person to overlook how shout the fuselages are.
Remember that the originals had a two some inch fore-and-aft CG envelope. All the pilot had to do was lean, and aircraft was unstable, either nose or tail heavy. Add to that the engine torque, and it's gyroscopic effect, and that too steep a dive would peel the fabric off the underside of the top wing. (They found that if they moved the seam back a few inches, the fabric stayed in place.)
What's that clanging when the pilots walked?
Father knew an old man who flew them, for the Kaiser, in Chicago, back in the 40's
So much wrong with your statement. For starters, the CG range was more like 10 inches. No you would not feel a change in CG by leaning fore and aft. No the fabric was not seamed laterally aft of the leading edge. That stupid mistake was made by the French on the Nieuport 28. And NO the fabric did not peel off the undersides of the wings. The early Dr1s did however suffer from Aileron failure at the false spar location. The only thing you mentioned correct was the bit about the rotary engines.
What about Werner Voss? Voss and his triplane should have been represented.
Is there any benefits of a tri plane compare to a bi plane or single wing plane
The triplanes had a lot of lift produced by the three wings, allowing the aircraft to be physically smaller and more manuverable. But the three wings also caused a lot of drag and so they weren't fast aircraft.
That was awesome
This is out of the world, like a dream! And a note: Is it safe to float a scarf near the propeller? 😮
Jasta 11 is reunited once again, Knights of the Sky, Never Die! :D
When did Ernst Udet join Jasta 11? I'm pretty sure he flew the Fokker triplane by that time. Could he be the mystery plane's pilot?
I don't think so. There are many images of Udet. He was a famous man...
@GunslingerXXI Danke, for the translation! What kind of nation do you think, sounds the name Melchior von Sternberg...?
@GunslingerXXI You did your homework. But the name origin, has more a literary background. And if you are unfamiliar with the German literature of the baroque, the solution to this task is almost impossible. And even if it were you, it would still be a little bit encrypted ...
Beautiful!
While the bright colors may have influenced the name 'Flying Circus" veterans claimed it was the fact that the unit traveled on trains looking like Circuses as was common before (and after ) the war.
A Canadian in a regular plane took out the R Baron and his triplane - shows no matter how good you are, you let your guard down and you can in nano moments become anyone's game.
Well that's not true, they researched all the evidence, and they concluded that not Captain Brown downed him but most likely an Australian soldier named Snowy Evans, or maybe Sergeant Cedric Popkin, both are Australian. It's still not 100% proven but it's almost 99% proven that the shot came from the ground.
This is correct! The fire or shot came from an Australian position due to the fact the bullet entered under Manfred's armpit and came out his neck. One lucky (or rather unlucky) shot!
Sorry Canada ,, he was shot down by an Aussie ground gunner. Brown was a little too far high and far from MvR's 6. .He did make a valiant attempt a dove hard But and burst of he guns 99% missed . MvR was hit with 1 .303. On His side , most likely banked alittle wing low toward the ground fire. even in his combat Carrere Richthofen was shot down 3 times . his luck although had ran out on the third.
Sgt Cedric Popkin scored the fatal hit from 600 yards away with a .303 caliber bullet. A literal "one in a million" shot from that distance, shooting at a fast moving target...
Ka Bong Sorry,Australian ANZAC,S Shot him down,no Bragg,just fact.
So amazing that any incursion back will have to be unilateral as well.
The squadron had a high reputation before the Red Baron took over. Most members had been hand-picked. Richthofen's mentor was the prior squad leader. They were called the flying circus because they could pick up and move to a new base very easily, and did so often, similar to a circus, not because of their paint schemes.
The Fokker Dr.I was a plane for specialists and accomplished fighter pilots. With it's exceptional rate of climb and maneuverability, it was a deadly craft indeed. But the lack of airspeed and visibility would tend to be a coffin for less experienced pilots.
I always thought The Flying Circus moniker was due to the outrageous colors of the aircraft. It had a much more important role....they moved from location to location, based upon need, just like a traveling circus would do.
Great video! I'd like to know what happened to those original fabric coverings!
Go to the Omaka Air Museum near Blenheim - it's worth it!
von Richthofen used a total of 5 triplanes to score 19 victories. All of them had blue undersides and a variety of colour schemes. The only time that 425/17 wore the Balkan cross was on the fatal flight. All the others had the Cross Patee. 425/17 MAY have had a white cowling.
Imagine the Austrailians and British people looking at the sky and seeing the ressurection of the red baron
Other than looking cool and stylish AF, what does the long neck scarf while flying serve?
In the old days they used (shorter) silk scarves to a) stop chafing around their necks due to coarse wool clothing, and b) wipe castor oil off their goggles. These days it is just to look cool AF! ;-)
The last one at 9:05, it looks like the color scheme that Jasta 6 used during the war.
Motor original es el Oberursel rotatorio y esos aviones no lo llevan. Hoy en día se fabrican motores rotatorios réplicas Gnome que son casi igual al Oberursel.
As this is playing, I'm watching the Fokkers in flight and hearing Wagner in my head. Maybe I can get the image of flying toasters out of my mind whenever I hear Ride of the Valkyries, replaced with war machines from a vanished time.
IM INPRESSED MISTER!!!!
sooooo, what about werner voss and ernst udet?