Just read an article in the Air & Space Smithsonian on
Flyboys, a movie about the Lafayette Escadrille, due for release in October. Looks good. Anyone involved in the filming?
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 to build 4 additional full scale, light weight, flying replica Nieuports using aluminium tubing and volkswagen engines, he built the 4 in 52 days.
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?