ORAC
17th Jun 2006, 09:32
Just read an article in the Air & Space Smithsonian on Flyboys (http://www.flyboysthemovie.com/story.htm), a movie about the Lafayette Escadrille, due for release in October. Looks good. Anyone involved in the filming? :ok:
They refurbished and used Kermit Weeks Nieuport 17, a replica 2 1/2 strutter, another Nieuport, 2 Fokker DR I triplanes, a Bristol F2, a Bleriot XI and an SE-5A. They then got Robert Baslee (http://www.airdromeaeroplanes.com/Default.asp?page=60)to build 4 additional full scale, light weight, flying replica Nieuports using aluminium tubing and volkswagen engines, he built the 4 in 52 days. :D
Filmed at Halton and over the Stamford PTA to avoid modern roads and traffic.
I noted that the Baslee replicas got grounded late in the flying when one lost control and almost rolled into another during a formation take-off when the filming helicopter repositioned alongside the runway. Any idea of their status now? Airworthy, scrapped, exhibits?
They refurbished and used Kermit Weeks Nieuport 17, a replica 2 1/2 strutter, another Nieuport, 2 Fokker DR I triplanes, a Bristol F2, a Bleriot XI and an SE-5A. They then got Robert Baslee (http://www.airdromeaeroplanes.com/Default.asp?page=60)to build 4 additional full scale, light weight, flying replica Nieuports using aluminium tubing and volkswagen engines, he built the 4 in 52 days. :D
Filmed at Halton and over the Stamford PTA to avoid modern roads and traffic.
I noted that the Baslee replicas got grounded late in the flying when one lost control and almost rolled into another during a formation take-off when the filming helicopter repositioned alongside the runway. Any idea of their status now? Airworthy, scrapped, exhibits?