It’s called a roundel. Scroll down a bit.
See, I’m not convinced they can do it. (And as I said, they looked pretty bad on the trailer.) Compare Tora! Tora! Tora! with Pearl Harbor. (Um… the flying, not the story. Don’t get me started on the story.) The former used real aircraft, and the flying scenes looked very realistic. The latter used a lot of CGI and the flying scenes looked computer-generated. It seems that CGI artists don’t know how aircraft fly. They’re too close together, and they move wrong. (Not to mention the Zero flying between ships, and the guy blasting away at it with a 20mm canon and missing – and also missing the ship moored 50 feet away!)
It was thought that if pilots had parachutes, they would bail instead of fight. Apparently they didn’t consider the considerable cost of training, and the experience a seasoned pilot might bring to a fight. :rolleyes: (Balloon crews had parachutes though.)
Roundel (emphasis provided on the bit that seems to answer the question):
Dammit, Silliness! :mad:
That’s what you get for trying to give a complete, total answer to someone’s question! 
Phew, I almost walked into another Dorie Miller embarassment there (I was corrected later in the thread).
Our universes intersect - in mine in 1983, Hauer starred in Batman.
It has but one black pilot out of how many thousands justifies a black pilot in the movie? I’m betting the producers know nothing about Bullard.
Producer. Dean Devlin.
If you want some clips and behind the scenes info, check out these clips. I think it looks pretty good, but it’s still not quite there.
I’m just impressed the entertainment industry recognizes that there was another war besides World War II.
I’m still waiting for a movie about the Spanish-American War or the Franco-Prussian War. They’ve covered most of the others.
Thank you for this info – what a cool story and an even cooler life this man lead.
Married a Countess, fought the Nazi’s with the French Underground. He was evidently a truly remarkable individual.
Agreed, however I’ll bet that this isn’t him being portrayed, and that this particular character doesn’t make it to the end of the movie. Just a hunch
What I noticed first was that the battle choreography (for lack of a better term) didn’t look right at all. It was only a brief clip, but I saw way too many planes in too small a space.
There are very few directors who can do a good action sequence like this. John’s comment about video games is right on. They seem to think we need 8,000 planes buzzing around before we’ll notice anything. (This was one of the two big problems with Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow.) Great action sequences are smaller than that. Think of a scene like the final submarine battle in The Hunt for Red October, or the car chase in Bullitt. We need to see who’s in the fight, where they are and what they’re trying to do. What we get instead is like a swarm of bees; plenty of activity, but nothing of interest.
Did you see the PBS Nova show “Who Killed the Red Baron?” I believe they re-ran it sometime last August?
Not ENTIRELY for that–if they landed in enemy territory they were supposed to put up at least a token fight before being captured–but yep. And yep, they were crazy but it beat drowning in the trenches.
The only airworthy original Sopwith Camel was on ebay (no longer appears to be the case)
biplanes + zeppelin = me interested in movie.
But I agree that something isn’t quite right in the preview.
And it will probably be Pearl Harbor : WWII :: Flyboys : WWI
Brian
An interesting article on the producer’s long fight to get it made:
Director = Tony Bill. That’s good.
Producer = Dean Devlin. That’s ass.
Wait and see.
I’m not sure what “souped” means, but I don’t think I am. I’ll probably catch it on cable in a few months.
I looking forward to it too. Did I read somewhere that they built a few flying replicas for some of the scenes? I’d personally rather see decently done CGI airplanes than real modern aircraft with a WWI coat of paint – the French flyers go bravely into battle in their Pitts Specials.
I’ve only seen the trailers that play on TV, but I have to say that my fleeting impression is that the skies in the movie seem to be populated with a great many red triplanes. I hope the protagonists don’t find themselves facing the Red Baron EVERY time they fly.
Here’s a question for the experts – I believe the Fokker Triplane was introduced at the very end of 1917 and by the summer of 1918 they were pretty much out of service. If I’ve identified the French planes correctly, they are Nieuports, but are they the correct model that would have been used at that period?