>
>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? :-)
>
There was at least one thing good I can say about the aircraft in
"Flyboys", which is that they showed clearly that the Nieuport 17 used wing
warping instead of ailerons. You could see that very easily in the head-on
views.
Chris
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
- Hunter S. Thompson
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