There's more than one historical inaccuracy relative to the aircraft
pictured. Perhaps the most egregious is all the red Fokker triplanes.
The Fokkers didn't enter the war until 1918 and the red ones were only
flown by von Richthofen's squadron. The Wiki article on this film says:
"On the director/producer commentary track for the DVD release, Producer
Dean Devlin noted that they were aware the predominant use of red
triplanes was historically inaccurate, but wanted to give clear visual
signals to the audience to enable them to easily distinguish friend from
foe in the aerial sequences." Shall we complain about the artistic
license? :-)
Chuck Norcutt
On 5/4/2014 11:08 AM, Chris Trask wrote:
Reminds me of a movie I was watching on TV called "Flyboys" about
the Lafayette Escadrille. Supposedly not very historically
accurate (about some personnel and aircraft) but I enjoyed it
nonetheless.
I liked that movie also even though I found some of the aircraft
scenes to be annoying, especially the one towards the end where there
is a Nieuport 28 in the background. That aircraft did not come into
service until later in the war.
An even more annoying scene is at the end of "The Blue Max", where
George Peppard is test flying a Morane Saulnier MS230, which was a
post-war French fighter. There were other historical aircraft
blunders in that movie, but that one stood out as the most serious.
Chris
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