When I was a kid in the 1960s, we had 3 WWI pilots in the neighborhood. One was an Ace. He had been a college gymnast and was excellent at aerobatics. Another one told me that the ammunition was poor and that they had to inspect each round before they were put into the belts. The poor rounds caused jams.
It is one of the *best* parts of the movie. WWI --a gentleman's war. Honor above all else. We do not shoot at injured pilots, those who cannot fight back, and surely not at those on the ground who have crashed. I loved that German pilot, I feel as if he's thinking, "I am sorry for the dishonor of my squadron towards your man, I'll not shoot you while you're unarmed, and we can finish this another time."
There are literally hundreds of instances of aircraft attacking injured pilots, planes with dead or injured observers/gunners or planes with jammed guns. The air war was highly romanticized by all belligerent nations propaganda departments, in part due to the horrific losses being experienced in the Trenches.
@@freddieclarkThe planes you're talking about with dead observers/gunners were recon or bombers. That dead gunner was protection. If it's a recon plane, it's carrying intelligence on troop positions. If it's a bomber, it has, you know... bombs, intended for ground targets. A dead backseater didn't make that plane any less fair game because its purpose was different than the fighters. But yes, there were a number of times when the rules of gentlemanly conduct were breached by pilots, especially later in the war as newer, less experienced pilots were starting to be fielded. In this case, earlier in the war, the Baron recognized that he was in his opponent's crosshairs. Due to a jam, his opponent couldn't fire and became distracted trying to unjam his gun. This let the Baron maneuver and put him in the crosshairs. In essence, they both got a "kill" on the other. He gave his opponent the opportunity to withdraw so they might break the tie later, when both were able to fight.
@@rcslyman8929 The Bristol F2B was a fighter with a rear gunner, not a recon or bomber, so that kinda destroys your first argument. In reconnaissance planes the dead gunner, was secondarily a gunner and primarily an observer/spotter and in general, particularly in the early war years was the planes commander, not the pilot who was just a chauffeur. Nevertheless, that does not change the point I was making. There were no 'gentlemanly rules of war', there were merely some 'gentlemen' who were engaged in a modern war with Victorian sensibilities. On the other hand there were many well known aces who laughed at such absurd 'gentlemanly codes'. Not sure what on earth you are talking about in your third paragraph. MVR was quite well known for attacking recon planes and downing them as they were an easier target. To my knowledge he never let a plane escape due to jammed guns. Neither did Mick Mannock who trained himself to fire when really close as he wanted to kill the pilot always.
@@freddieclark That's one model out of how many? Sorry, two-seat fighters were a rarity, hardly "destroys". And what third paragraph? You mean sentence?
@@rcslyman8929 The Bristol was not 'one model out of many', although it was without a doubt the most successful, and it was envisioned as a reconnaissance aircraft as a replacement for the existing crop of poorly performing British recon aircraft, not as a dedicated fighter which it was highly capable of. The French regularly used twin seaters in the 'barrier role' as seen during the battles over Verdun and the Chemin des Dames. Even the British pressed early two seaters into the interceptor fighter role as with the dreadful B.E.2 ( A plane that the Biff was actually intended to replace). A Paragraph is a distinct section of a piece of writing, usually dealing with a single theme and indicated by a new line, indentation, or numbering. I would suggest you look once again at the structure of your reply as seen on screen. Finally, you seem to totally ignore the fact that the 'Gentlemanly war' was a product not only of propaganda but also of class distinction. The vast majority of early war fliers of all nations were wealthy mid to upper class products of Public schools. As they were the 'face' of the various propaganda machines they were elevated to a 'higher plane' as was expected by class distinctions of the time. This had almost completely disappeared by the mid to latter part of 1917, due mainly to the fact that many fliers were now no longer from these exalted ranks.
On top of that, pilots like him relish in a challenge, and Rolings pretty much had him bang to rights... and it was just stupid blind luck that his gun jammed at that moment. This was one warrior acknowledging the skill of a rival. A German tradition that would continue into WW2.
Jonathon Davonger Actually the German knew the weaknesses of the allied guns. He was trying to force a jam. He knew it had a chance of jamming heading at a stiff angle.
I too love this scene. My best friend showed me this movie, I now have the DVD. I always imagined the German pilot saying, "We'll finish this another time, I'll not shoot an unarmed pilot."
Actually Richthofen was very reluctant to kill pilots, he only needed the plane to go down to bring up his "score" he talked about how he regretted having to kill a Sopwith pilot ,I think it was, in his autobiography, the pilot pretended to be going for a crash landing, then popped back up behind him and began firing so Richtofen out turned him and shot him down, he wrote that he felt very bad that the pilot had died and wished he had just stuck with the crash landing.
Do you think dog fights back then required more acrobatic skills than today air battles? Now, you could shoot down another aircraft even before seeing each other.
marksmanship would have been a key factor in successfully defeating an opponent. If you take Richthofen as a good example, I believe he was an accomplished hunter before putting those skills to good use in the air.
they do a lot of the same maneuvers only now with the high thrust to weight ratio's they have the vertical element to deal with more so than the biplanes. once the fighters are close they go to guns only things happen a lot faster. as for missiles i watched an interview with a fighter pilot and he said the primary thing to remember is they are called miss iles.
This was one of my favorite scenes. The level of respect and honor even among enemies was truly something to admire. Horrible as it was, there was still respect and honor, something long forgotten now.
Richtofen's squadron flew brightly coloured planes but no one in his squadron had a plane painted like his, most of them steered away from red because A they respected Richtofen and B they did not want to be seen as unoriginal, someone had a plane with a colour scheme that consisted of mainly red but it was not entirely red, a few in other squadrons painted theirs entirely Red once the British set up the anti-Richtofen squadron but only in solidarity (so Richtofen was not the only one attacked)
It was the same during WWII. If an American or English pilot was downed in Germany they were kept as prisoners but the Luftwaffe pilots would be friends with them and drink together. Before the end of WWII, pilots had a rule of never shooting any airmen who bailed with a parachute.
The Red Baron's plane was not the only Fokker triplane painted red used by the Germans. There were many. Richthofen's entire unit was known as "The Flying Circus" due to the bright colors their planes used.
@@kettch777 True, but his was the only one painted completely red. The others in his squadron were multi coloured. Also he spent the bulk of his career flying Albatross biplanes, he only used the Fokker DR1 later on. Check the film out, it's light years more accurate than this Hollywood mess. ruclips.net/video/vhL7vb6xUhA/видео.html
@@g.defreestlarner772 A fair bit of dramatic licence but the meat of the story was pretty accurate, at least as far as I can recall from reading about him in the history books. What aspects were "horrendously inaccurate"?
In the First World War, only one man adorned himself with a beautiful flower, while others did not deny that he was Manfred von Richthofen. The RED BARON !
@@d.olivia8431 They were both valiant warriors..but, as to be expected, their Kharma caught up with them..With Goering, he offed himself with a cyanide pill, rather than face a hanging for Nazi war crimes!
wow 8 years ago. this movie is that old? actually the RED BARON was a cold blooded killer. even if a plane had crash landed and the pilot survived, he would straff the plane to make sure he was dead. and I red this in a book all about him.
@@john.t645 There are many books about it. you have to read. I have been reading about world war 1 and 2 since I was a kid. I met the pilot who dropped the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima in 1997 at Wright Patterson air force base and have a photo with him. we talked and shook hands. he said my name, interesting day. I also met a German soldier from world war 2 when I worked at a tv station in Cincinnati. I seem to always be around history. There is much evidence in the books. maybe you don't want to believe what other people wrote in the books? is the Red Baron your hero? he shot down 80 planes, but he himself was also shot down near the end of the war and was killed. not sure if you knew that or not. His plane crashed on Corbie Hill near the Somme River. He was being chased by a Canadian pilot Roy Brown, who received credit for shooting him down. Actually though I read a very details book that gave credit to a gunner on the ground that was shooting at the Baron as they flew over them.. they were low to the ground, it was late in the day. This chase had gone on for some time. It was a very wild last dog fight he was in. He was chasing a plane and then Roy Brown attacked the Red Baron from behind and a long duel then went on for some time. When they flew over the Australian gunner on the ground named Cedric Popkin, he fired at the Baron and a bullet went right through the heart of the Red Baron. He then of course lost control of the plane and it was easily shot down and just crashed with nobody at the controls. The Baron was killed in the air. So you see I do study history and know a lot about it. but if you feel I am wrong, that's ok.
Well thank you :) It had been very interesting taking to you, and to be honest you speak better English than a great deal of native speakers, hats off to you for that!
When the two squads met May noticed another pilot doing the same as him, thinking it would be a even match he attacked, Richthofen saw his cousin being attacked and flew in to help, the two newbies were flying low and Captain Roy brown saw Richthofen attacking May so he dived on him, the two newbs escaped but Brown and Richthofen were left fighting, after a while Richthofen was injured so he readied himself for a landing, while he was on final approach the French AAA gunner nearby took a ...
@danceoncommand1 Honor! The German Ace, having whitnessed The Black Falcon shoot an UNarmed and downed pilot, felt he "owed" the American and his fellow pilots. The Black Falcon lacked honor (first fight) and even shrugged off this German's shaking of his head like, "Whatever!" While back at basecamp Reed even says it (his life being spared) was because of what happened on the ground. When the German pilot spares Rawlings he points to the ground, indicating the event, and salutes Rawlings.
Shot at Richthofen, it went straight through his right lung (I think) but he wasn't, quite dead, his plane landed itself (as he had been on final approach anyway) and a young French woman ran to the plane, he pulled himself out of the plane and said "Kapput" meaning Broken in German then died, The End
Did you invent a time machine and go back to personally observe what happened? There are several different versions of exactly what took place, so it's anyone's guess at this point as to the truth.
I don't know how to tell you this but the German air command which was part of the army had a number of combat air craft aside from the Fokker Dr1 Triplane the best of these was the the Fokker D7 biplane and also the Fokker D8 monoplane both of which were faster and in the case of the D7 had much better handling at speed that most allied aircraft lacked . However had the Flyboys been equipped with the British built SE 5 they would be the equal of any German fighter , The Dr1 triplane was slow even for 1917 standards with a top speed of around 100 MPH the SE5 and DR7 could do around a 130 MPH . I found Flyboys fun to watch but not all that accurate to what the reality of air combat of that era was.
@wowathena Really?! That's awesome! I thought the Allied guns weren't as good as German, just prone to jamming, I didn't know it was a G-force influenced thing too! Really cool.
I once let a man fly on thinking if I shoot him down it will be on my mind for the rest of my life so pulled up alongside this pilot gave him a salute waved my wings and flew away I never saw him again
War.... what is war? A disgusting and selfish ambition from politics and greed,,, sending you to fight for them, a bunch of cowards with no honest intentions but to gain power and richness. A medal for your life and millions for their wallets.
I think this scene was based on guynemer and udet dogfight where udet had a jam and guynemer spared him when he couldve easily shot him down only in this movie its the other way around the german gets to spare the french or english fighter
Same like Salahuddin Ayubi did when King Richard of England fell from his horse,he never let anyone to attack him till he climbed again on the horse and held his sword.
He used to enjoy hunting animals but when he was flying he viewed the plane as his prey not the pilot, the story of when he was shot down is quite sad really, his cousin or nephew (I can't remember which) had just joined his squadron, he was very inexperienced so Richthofen told him if there was any trouble to get up high and watch, meanwhile the anti Richthofen squadron also had a new member, lieutenant Wop may, he was under the same orders as the cousin...
That is why I loved World War 1. Knights of the sky. Sure you had better planes in WW2 that were much more strategically important in actual battles, but aces were not as publicized, pilots didn't usually make a name for themselves, and there was no honour.
Later in the movie, Rawlings sneaks up on the German that spared him. He initially is hesitant whether to kill him but after he took off after one of his friends, he had no choice.
Did this fella think the opponent was going to wait for him to unjam his gun? Or just maybe keep manuevering to get on his tail? I pick 2. Is a the Nieuport's manueverability connected to the guns? No guns, frozen controls? If I saw that hun getting on my tail, I'd pull the most sudden manuever I could. But we had to set up the chivalry thing.
American/British movie detected... allied plane can aim perfectly while flying and dodging and destroys the bombers engine in two or three hits however the German gunner fails to destroy the allied plane after at least ten hits and even tho he can aim much easier and more accurate he doesnt hit most the time.
start from 2:35 ends in 3:04 a alternative version of red baron song by sabaton plays and hes flying lower the king of the land hes flying to fast and hes flying to low
Gotha's flew daylight missions against London and British targets regularly in 1917 until late August by which time improved AA defences and more interceptor squadrons made them switch to night bombing in September 1917.
@Canadimexican During the Xmas eve ceasefire of 1914, the allies & Germans fraternized, playing soccer in No Man's Land. Young Hitler witnessed it and was a total grinch. Thought it was wrong to spare the enemy like that. I saw a History channel show where an American spared a Me-109 like that; soon after, that same kraut shot down somebody else from his squadron. :-(
thats how brave enemies fight with dignity, never attack a helpless fellow. Great Germans with dignity. Never cheated other nations like Britains, Americans did .
im going to nitpick about the gotha bomber shown at 0:08 There are no radiator cowlings on the front of the engine, and the fuselage is much too short near the tail making the vertical stabilizer look much larger.. Oh and the wings should be swept back slightly, not straight... The geek in me..
@dandare934 honor is never put aside... only snakes and weasles would say such a thing. People who fight in war know the risks. Dont take that from them.
@Canadimexican not rlly.Theres an account of a British soldier being blasted into a shellhole and there was already a German in it and they started to fight but they eventually both agreed not to fight and returned to their trenches, also some Germans put up a red cross flag and evacuated their wounded and the British held their fire, the french never did such things
Yeah there were quite a few Gothas, but they were used primarily for strategic bombing (especially London). They did do some daylight raids but went to night bombing when they started suffered heavy losses, although they later stopped the Gotha night raids as causalities mounted.
When I was a kid in the 1960s, we had 3 WWI pilots in the neighborhood. One was an Ace. He had been a college gymnast and was excellent at aerobatics. Another one told me that the ammunition was poor and that they had to inspect each round before they were put into the belts. The poor rounds caused jams.
That would have been amazing listening to the stories they had to tell.
It is one of the *best* parts of the movie. WWI --a gentleman's war. Honor above all else. We do not shoot at injured pilots, those who cannot fight back, and surely not at those on the ground who have crashed. I loved that German pilot, I feel as if he's thinking, "I am sorry for the dishonor of my squadron towards your man, I'll not shoot you while you're unarmed, and we can finish this another time."
There are literally hundreds of instances of aircraft attacking injured pilots, planes with dead or injured observers/gunners or planes with jammed guns. The air war was highly romanticized by all belligerent nations propaganda departments, in part due to the horrific losses being experienced in the Trenches.
@@freddieclarkThe planes you're talking about with dead observers/gunners were recon or bombers. That dead gunner was protection. If it's a recon plane, it's carrying intelligence on troop positions. If it's a bomber, it has, you know... bombs, intended for ground targets. A dead backseater didn't make that plane any less fair game because its purpose was different than the fighters.
But yes, there were a number of times when the rules of gentlemanly conduct were breached by pilots, especially later in the war as newer, less experienced pilots were starting to be fielded.
In this case, earlier in the war, the Baron recognized that he was in his opponent's crosshairs. Due to a jam, his opponent couldn't fire and became distracted trying to unjam his gun. This let the Baron maneuver and put him in the crosshairs. In essence, they both got a "kill" on the other. He gave his opponent the opportunity to withdraw so they might break the tie later, when both were able to fight.
@@rcslyman8929 The Bristol F2B was a fighter with a rear gunner, not a recon or bomber, so that kinda destroys your first argument. In reconnaissance planes the dead gunner, was secondarily a gunner and primarily an observer/spotter and in general, particularly in the early war years was the planes commander, not the pilot who was just a chauffeur. Nevertheless, that does not change the point I was making. There were no 'gentlemanly rules of war', there were merely some 'gentlemen' who were engaged in a modern war with Victorian sensibilities. On the other hand there were many well known aces who laughed at such absurd 'gentlemanly codes'. Not sure what on earth you are talking about in your third paragraph. MVR was quite well known for attacking recon planes and downing them as they were an easier target. To my knowledge he never let a plane escape due to jammed guns. Neither did Mick Mannock who trained himself to fire when really close as he wanted to kill the pilot always.
@@freddieclark That's one model out of how many? Sorry, two-seat fighters were a rarity, hardly "destroys". And what third paragraph? You mean sentence?
@@rcslyman8929 The Bristol was not 'one model out of many', although it was without a doubt the most successful, and it was envisioned as a reconnaissance aircraft as a replacement for the existing crop of poorly performing British recon aircraft, not as a dedicated fighter which it was highly capable of. The French regularly used twin seaters in the 'barrier role' as seen during the battles over Verdun and the Chemin des Dames. Even the British pressed early two seaters into the interceptor fighter role as with the dreadful B.E.2 ( A plane that the Biff was actually intended to replace). A Paragraph is a distinct section of a piece of writing, usually dealing with a single theme and indicated by a new line, indentation, or numbering. I would suggest you look once again at the structure of your reply as seen on screen. Finally, you seem to totally ignore the fact that the 'Gentlemanly war' was a product not only of propaganda but also of class distinction. The vast majority of early war fliers of all nations were wealthy mid to upper class products of Public schools. As they were the 'face' of the various propaganda machines they were elevated to a 'higher plane' as was expected by class distinctions of the time. This had almost completely disappeared by the mid to latter part of 1917, due mainly to the fact that many fliers were now no longer from these exalted ranks.
Love this scene. shows mutual respect for a fallen comrade
Yes. It is true that the enemy can be your friend. It shows good respect for many things.
On top of that, pilots like him relish in a challenge, and Rolings pretty much had him bang to rights... and it was just stupid blind luck that his gun jammed at that moment. This was one warrior acknowledging the skill of a rival. A German tradition that would continue into WW2.
Jonathon Davonger Actually the German knew the weaknesses of the allied guns. He was trying to force a jam. He knew it had a chance of jamming heading at a stiff angle.
Total BS
I too love this scene. My best friend showed me this movie, I now have the DVD. I always imagined the German pilot saying, "We'll finish this another time, I'll not shoot an unarmed pilot."
You should definetly watch "The Red Baron" movie is to be found on RUclips in english.
Bomber pilot: "Of course they just have to attack while I'm out on the wing, damn my luck"
Lmao
My favorite is the preacher singing "Onward Christian Soldiers, marching as to war, With the Cross of Jesus, going on before..."
Actually Richthofen was very reluctant to kill pilots, he only needed the plane to go down to bring up his "score" he talked about how he regretted having to kill a Sopwith pilot ,I think it was, in his autobiography, the pilot pretended to be going for a crash landing, then popped back up behind him and began firing so Richtofen out turned him and shot him down, he wrote that he felt very bad that the pilot had died and wished he had just stuck with the crash landing.
He was a nazi.
@@reymeradrianotv4001 Richthofen was dead before Nazis in the modern sense were even a thing...
@@MrSquishedsquashed i can already what the other guy said by your comment alone lmao
@@sleepyguy6201yeah it’s almost unbelievable how stupid people can be
When exactly is he supposed to have written his "autobiography" 😂
Man that singing guy kicked ass, shame he had to go out like that
Do you think dog fights back then required more acrobatic skills than today air battles? Now, you could shoot down another aircraft even before seeing each other.
I think you answered your own question.
Kb Calib they still have to be able to shake missiles.
The most modern jet fighters sport machine guns.
marksmanship would have been a key factor in successfully defeating an opponent. If you take Richthofen as a good example, I believe he was an accomplished hunter before putting those skills to good use in the air.
they do a lot of the same maneuvers only now with the high thrust to weight ratio's they have the vertical element to deal with more so than the biplanes. once the fighters are close they go to guns only things happen a lot faster.
as for missiles i watched an interview with a fighter pilot and he said the primary thing to remember is they are called miss iles.
This was one of my favorite scenes. The level of respect and honor even among enemies was truly something to admire. Horrible as it was, there was still respect and honor, something long forgotten now.
Richtofen's squadron flew brightly coloured planes but no one in his squadron had a plane painted like his, most of them steered away from red because A they respected Richtofen and B they did not want to be seen as unoriginal, someone had a plane with a colour scheme that consisted of mainly red but it was not entirely red, a few in other squadrons painted theirs entirely Red once the British set up the anti-Richtofen squadron but only in solidarity (so Richtofen was not the only one attacked)
Ww1, the last war ever fought based on the premise of honor, not certain death
It was the same during WWII. If an American or English pilot was downed in Germany they were kept as prisoners but the Luftwaffe pilots would be friends with them and drink together. Before the end of WWII, pilots had a rule of never shooting any airmen who bailed with a parachute.
Stop glorifying war
@@riproar11 but only in they AirForce/Luftwaffe. It was completely different at the ground
@@sovietsomething bro how does it glorify it its just saying there was more humanity involved
@@absentrocket8619 You may not realise this but 'humanity' was involved in every war fought on this planet.
It’s kind not accurate for all of the planes to be the red baron
The red barons plane he flew in was a Fokker dr. 1 the same plane used by many others.
The Red Baron's plane was not the only Fokker triplane painted red used by the Germans. There were many. Richthofen's entire unit was known as "The Flying Circus" due to the bright colors their planes used.
@@kettch777 True, but his was the only one painted completely red. The others in his squadron were multi coloured. Also he spent the bulk of his career flying Albatross biplanes, he only used the Fokker DR1 later on. Check the film out, it's light years more accurate than this Hollywood mess. ruclips.net/video/vhL7vb6xUhA/видео.html
@@Deevo037 The Red Baron is still horrendously inaccurate tho hahah
@@g.defreestlarner772 A fair bit of dramatic licence but the meat of the story was pretty accurate, at least as far as I can recall from reading about him in the history books. What aspects were "horrendously inaccurate"?
In the First World War, only one man adorned himself with a beautiful flower, while others did not deny that he was Manfred von Richthofen. The RED BARON !
Nope..It was Hermann Goering..The Blue Max
@@d.olivia8431 They were both valiant warriors..but, as to be expected, their Kharma caught up with them..With Goering, he offed himself with a cyanide pill, rather than face a hanging for Nazi war crimes!
@@samburkes7552 Yep. And the Red Baron was killed in combat at the young age of 25.
4:20 - 4:37 a true knight of the air thumbs up if you agree
wow 8 years ago. this movie is that old? actually the RED BARON was a cold blooded killer. even if a plane had crash landed and the pilot survived, he would straff the plane to make sure he was dead. and I red this in a book all about him.
@@kystars The Cold Blooded killer was Edward Mannock, he shoots the planes even if they was out of battle.
@@kystars where's the proof
@@giovannizuniga3338 I guess the war could have more than just one cold blooded killer, no ?
@@john.t645 There are many books about it. you have to read. I have been reading about world war 1 and 2 since I was a kid. I met the pilot who dropped the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima in 1997 at Wright Patterson air force base and have a photo with him. we talked and shook hands. he said my name, interesting day. I also met a German soldier from world war 2 when I worked at a tv station in Cincinnati. I seem to always be around history. There is much evidence in the books. maybe you don't want to believe what other people wrote in the books? is the Red Baron your hero? he shot down 80 planes, but he himself was also shot down near the end of the war and was killed. not sure if you knew that or not. His plane crashed on Corbie Hill near the Somme River. He was being chased by a Canadian pilot Roy Brown, who received credit for shooting him down. Actually though I read a very details book that gave credit to a gunner on the ground that was shooting at the Baron as they flew over them.. they were low to the ground, it was late in the day. This chase had gone on for some time. It was a very wild last dog fight he was in. He was chasing a plane and then Roy Brown attacked the Red Baron from behind and a long duel then went on for some time. When they flew over the Australian gunner on the ground named Cedric Popkin, he fired at the Baron and a bullet went right through the heart of the Red Baron. He then of course lost control of the plane and it was easily shot down and just crashed with nobody at the controls. The Baron was killed in the air. So you see I do study history and know a lot about it. but if you feel I am wrong, that's ok.
True warriors ...dog fights were up close and personal
4:20 - 4:36 “come back and fight me when you’re ready”
Well thank you :)
It had been very interesting taking to you, and to be honest you speak better English than a great deal of native speakers, hats off to you for that!
I like how red baron took advantage of G-force. He knew that keeping constant fire on hard dives or risings can cause machine guns to jam.
It is not at all the "Red Baron". Maybe These guys were from the flying Circus, but definitly not von Richthofen
When the two squads met May noticed another pilot doing the same as him, thinking it would be a even match he attacked, Richthofen saw his cousin being attacked and flew in to help, the two newbies were flying low and Captain Roy brown saw Richthofen attacking May so he dived on him, the two newbs escaped but Brown and Richthofen were left fighting, after a while Richthofen was injured so he readied himself for a landing, while he was on final approach the French AAA gunner nearby took a ...
That German Pilot sure had honor his # in Roman Numeral is XXI (21)
Love this movie!
the guy in the bomber :are you serious i put my life to refill that engine!!!
4:20 HONOR! Something Black Falcon lacked.
@danceoncommand1 Honor! The German Ace, having whitnessed The Black Falcon shoot an UNarmed and downed pilot, felt he "owed" the American and his fellow pilots. The Black Falcon lacked honor (first fight) and even shrugged off this German's shaking of his head like, "Whatever!" While back at basecamp Reed even says it (his life being spared) was because of what happened on the ground. When the German pilot spares Rawlings he points to the ground, indicating the event, and salutes Rawlings.
A like after 10 years
I like how the bullets have smoke trails, robust corkscrew smoke trails
This is a great battle of airplanes of the WW1.
Nice.
Ahh war thunder tier 1 memories
How aim I'm a nut shell lmao
Now thats what you call honor in a fight :-)
This is a good scene. Shows respect although enemies
What a nice person had him and just gave him a salute well done
Shot at Richthofen, it went straight through his right lung (I think) but he wasn't, quite dead, his plane landed itself (as he had been on final approach anyway) and a young French woman ran to the plane, he pulled himself out of the plane and said "Kapput" meaning Broken in German then died, The End
Did you invent a time machine and go back to personally observe what happened? There are several different versions of exactly what took place, so it's anyone's guess at this point as to the truth.
I liked the gentlemanly salute as the German pilot passed him and flew away.
I don't know how to tell you this but the German air command which was part of the army had a number of combat air craft aside from the Fokker Dr1 Triplane the best of these was the the Fokker D7 biplane and also the Fokker D8 monoplane both of which were faster and in the case of the D7 had much better handling at speed that most allied aircraft lacked . However had the Flyboys been equipped with the British built SE 5 they would be the equal of any German fighter , The Dr1 triplane was slow even for 1917 standards with a top speed of around 100 MPH the SE5 and DR7 could do around a 130 MPH . I found Flyboys fun to watch but not all that accurate to what the reality of air combat of that era was.
Gotha G.IV, beautiful plane!
@wowathena Really?! That's awesome! I thought the Allied guns weren't as good as German, just prone to jamming, I didn't know it was a G-force influenced thing too! Really cool.
apparently there were 100 Red Barons
Filled two sheets of A4 paper with all the inaccuracies and bloopers in this one clip, but gave up in the end........
I once let a man fly on thinking if I shoot him down it will be on my mind for the rest of my life so pulled up alongside this pilot gave him a salute waved my wings and flew away I never saw him again
War.... what is war? A disgusting and selfish ambition from politics and greed,,, sending you to fight for them, a bunch of cowards with no honest intentions but to gain power and richness.
A medal for your life and millions for their wallets.
I think this scene was based on guynemer and udet dogfight where udet had a jam and guynemer spared him when he couldve easily shot him down only in this movie its the other way around the german gets to spare the french or english fighter
I was thinking that too.
Troy Immelmann It does look like udet and Guynemer's dogfight
Was thinking the same thing. It's the same scene except the rolls are switched
Troy Immelmann there was also a Scene bedween Richthofen and an english Pilot i heard somewhere
Yes, I thought the same, just couldn't remember the names.
4:19 gets me every time I see it…..honor among enemies
I love this movie
absolutly honorable.
one thing they did right is colouring the bomber in a realistic camoflauge instead of the unrealistic richtofen red colour. but who knows.
1:10 "Dammit! I just fixed that!"
Fly boys is the best movie ever
Pasaron muchos años ahí empiezan modernizar los bombardero y aviones se combate
Same like Salahuddin Ayubi did when King Richard of England fell from his horse,he never let anyone to attack him till he climbed again on the horse and held his sword.
It's cool how this paper where so brutal
He used to enjoy hunting animals but when he was flying he viewed the plane as his prey not the pilot, the story of when he was shot down is quite sad really, his cousin or nephew (I can't remember which) had just joined his squadron, he was very inexperienced so Richthofen told him if there was any trouble to get up high and watch, meanwhile the anti Richthofen squadron also had a new member, lieutenant Wop may, he was under the same orders as the cousin...
MrSquishedsquashed I think that is legend. He was the one who came up with HEAD SHOTS as target. The movie about him romanticized his actual traits.
That is why I loved World War 1. Knights of the sky. Sure you had better planes in WW2 that were much more strategically important in actual battles, but aces were not as publicized, pilots didn't usually make a name for themselves, and there was no honour.
At of the street
there's blue sky like a red baron out of the bombers it to the game
Later in the movie, Rawlings sneaks up on the German that spared him. He initially is hesitant whether to kill him but after he took off after one of his friends, he had no choice.
4:20 moment of honor.
Did this fella think the opponent was going to wait for him to unjam his gun? Or just maybe keep manuevering to get on his tail? I pick 2. Is a the Nieuport's manueverability connected
to the guns? No guns, frozen controls? If I saw that hun getting on my tail, I'd pull the most sudden manuever I could. But we had to set up the chivalry thing.
American/British movie detected... allied plane can aim perfectly while flying and dodging and destroys the bombers engine in two or three hits however the German gunner fails to destroy the allied plane after at least ten hits and even tho he can aim much easier and more accurate he doesnt hit most the time.
that's what I think.. but the Greatest Ace Pilot Manfred Von Richthofen win 80 victories.. :
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Exactly. They do same things with tanks and regular soldiers in the movies. Remember "Fury" with that fake bs scene Tiger vs Shermans scene?
The gotha is like the one plane in the movie that is realistic
Yeah.. :)
Its not.
Great film
@warana2 Yes it is, but that guy he let go later killed his friend in a different fight. In war, sometimes honour has to be put to one side...
One of Richthofen´s wingmen had also a red plane.
What’s the ost from 4:20??
start from 2:35 ends in 3:04 a alternative version of red baron song by sabaton plays
and hes flying lower the king of the land hes flying to fast and hes flying to low
The ending they were like freinds
Why are there 3 Red Fokkers I thought Richthofen had the only one at the time?
With the amount films spend on cgi today they could build the real thing and do it without cgi!
Don't know why a gotha night bomber is flying on it's own, during the day.
V.K.S Productions it was all they had available. Others needed repairs or were shot down.
V.K.S Productions
Gotha's flew daylight missions against London and British targets regularly in 1917 until late August by which time improved AA defences and more interceptor squadrons made them switch to night bombing in September 1917.
1:14 welp, that bomber has failed at life
And down goes the mighty Gotha!
Интересно,это в какой армии во время Первой Мировой Войны,воевали негры, да еще летчиками.Или это летный загар?
Firstly, "negroes" is an insult. 2. Eugene Bullard flew in the french air force.
@Canadimexican During the Xmas eve ceasefire of 1914, the allies & Germans fraternized, playing soccer in No Man's Land. Young Hitler witnessed it and was a total grinch. Thought it was wrong to spare the enemy like that.
I saw a History channel show where an American spared a Me-109 like that; soon after, that same kraut shot down somebody else from his squadron.
:-(
@MrAop2 Das Lied heisst "Onward Christian Soldiers". Gibt es hier auf RUclips in dutzenden Varianten.
Der Text lässt sich einfach googlen.
thats how brave enemies fight with dignity, never attack a helpless fellow. Great Germans with dignity. Never cheated other nations like Britains, Americans did .
I am not familiar with this movie. Was the Black pilot character based on Eugene Bullard?
Yep.
exactly my thought, there were other red triplanes but not as many as this movie is showing , i really wished they fixed this but ehh its a movie.
What happened to 5/5 Flyboys?
Final mission?
Copyright issues? RUclips yank it?
It's uploaded.
Vaddix 99 thanks again
THE LAST WAR OF GENTLEMAN...
im going to nitpick about the gotha bomber shown at 0:08
There are no radiator cowlings on the front of the engine, and the fuselage is much too short near the tail making the vertical stabilizer look much larger..
Oh and the wings should be swept back slightly, not straight...
The geek in me..
The 1st Flying fortress XD
4:23 A true German.
@dandare934 honor is never put aside... only snakes and weasles would say such a thing. People who fight in war know the risks. Dont take that from them.
Where is it you're from then Germany?
@BalwegDavaoHitman German soldiers weren't called Nazi's during WWI. Germany becamed a Nazi country when Hitler took power in 1933.
sag mal wie viel munition haben die den die schiessen ununterbrochen ich glaub früher hatten die nur für 15 sekundet schuss dabei
Gentleman in Battle field...
They act like every German was bad and all the triplanes were red
Only the Red Baron has a red triplane
@Canadimexican not rlly.Theres an account of a British soldier being blasted into a shellhole and there was already a German in it and they started to fight but they eventually both agreed not to fight and returned to their trenches, also some Germans put up a red cross flag and evacuated their wounded and the British held their fire, the french never did such things
"Onward Christian Soldiers, marching as to war."
03:06 an Anglo-Norman church in France!?🤔 Is it possible???
Only a few Gotha bombers were made, and none were used on the western front, nor were any shot down.
Ehm nope. You are confusing this with the R-Types by Staaken.
Yeah there were quite a few Gothas, but they were used primarily for strategic bombing (especially London). They did do some daylight raids but went to night bombing when they started suffered heavy losses, although they later stopped the Gotha night raids as causalities mounted.
Manfred von Richthvon, 'the red baron'.
Doctor, plz help me.............i see red triplanes............everywhere red triplanes......
what song is that at 4:22?
Como se llama la película
1:54 This Guy revive and Die again in the Zeppelin attack??? In the video (4/5)
my hero'
正々堂々の精神が！
The very first few seconds are so bad: the prop on the rotary engine is spinning but the engine is not !
And now we have African flying aces in the first world war
I believe that character is based off the real-life Eugene Bullard
Live today, Fight tomorrow
Honor..