"The Great Waldo Pepper"

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The Dr.1 is of course marked-up in the correct movie paint, though the Camel scheme is not quite the same, but very close to the one in the movie. For the backdrop, I substituted in New Zealand for California.















 
Excellent shots John!

Still waiting to see a rotary equipped WWI warbird live, must be quite a show. Seen Mikael Carlson´s Bleriot XI twice, maybe he´ll come to Germany with his DR I one day...
 
Thanks Mr. Mugel and Roger!

I too would love to see a rotary-powered WWI aircraft operating in person - always reported to be quite loud. Ever since seeing Mikael Carlson's displays with his Fokker Dr.1 via Youtube, I've been prone to always wanting to fly the Neoqb example the same way in FSX, and when you watch the videos and then recreate the same flying in the sim, you can really tell that the flight model of the Neoqb model is spot on. I love his displays, as it is a very rare glimpse, these days, to see fully authentic (but reproduction) WWI aircraft be flown to their full capabilities in aerobatic displays.
 
Brilliant Screens :cool: , After helping a few visitors in questioning the operation of the interrupter gear on a Sopwith Pup at the Wigram museum after they left i pondered over it and looking again - thinking and now off course all this happened nearly a hundred years ago ..... these guys really had Balls ..

Today in Omaka , I really would love to go for a flight and in one specific the Bristol Fighter ... a few off these were on charge with the RNZAF right up to 1939 as instructional airframes ... last flown operationally in 1936 .. now that's the well past use by date ! <input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><input jscode="leoInternalChangeDone()" onclick="if(typeof(jsCall)=='function'){jsCall();}else{setTimeout('jsCall()',500);}" id="jsProxy" type="hidden"><input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><input onclick="if(typeof(jsCall)=='function'){jsCall();}else{setTimeout('jsCall()',500);}" id="jsProxy" type="hidden">
 
.... Und your name iz Brrauwn ?...... Jou wur togezzer wit Ezra Stiles when he tried vor ze outside loop ?....


Shake him, Waldo !!!..... ...... ....Well, as long as he's up there !...


Great shots, John ! :cool:
 
Hey guys, sorry I was gone since last night, following posting this. Thank you for the further replies, Ian, Jan, LuckyDog, Neil, Bill, and Crashaz!

Ian, that Bristol Fighter owned by TVAL is an absolute gem - one of the few aircraft of that period still flying today which is an original, not a reproduction. There was a pilot report I read a couple of years ago, written by one of TVAL's pilots who tends to fly that particular aircraft quite a bit, and he seemed to really be in love with it.

Jan, I love the movie quotes! And Neil, as you say, I've always loved the movie Dr.1 paint scheme as well. I always loved the scene where 'Waldo' walks to the back of one of the studio hangars and finds the Dr.1 sitting there.









 
I remember my Dad taking me to the Great Waldo Pepper years ago (mid 1970s?), I guess when it it first released. I remember one of the plane crashes quite vividly when somebody burnt to death in a crash. I must see it again.

Peter Jackson must surely do a WW1 flying movie one day with the massive collection he has now? A remake of Blue Max maybe?
 
I've seen a pup display at Old Warden. I think I have a slide somewhere (yep it was 1995, no digitals yet) of the Pup blown to the side by a sudden gust on touchdown, thankfully it just scraped a wingtip. Amazing sight and sound plus you get the smell of Castor oil for the full experience.
 
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I hope you don't mind some more Waldo Pepper trivia.

I thought this looked a lot like the terrain around my neck of the woods and sure enough it is. Although the bulk of the picture was shot in Texas, apparently the recreated dogfight was done around Santa Paula/Fillmore.

January 22, 1974 (Long Beach Press-Telegram): During the filming of The Great Waldo Pepper, "Frank Tallman, the best known stunt pilot in the movie business, Monday flew a World War I biplane into high voltage wires and crashed into the Santa Clara river bed near Newhall." He was flying a French Nieuport, and was treated at a local hospital for head cuts that required 12 stitches.

http://www.ntsb.gov/aviationquery/brief.aspx?ev_id=83617&key=0
http://www.ntsb.gov/aviationquery/brief.aspx?ev_id=83720&key=0

The Santa Clara riverbed (mostly dry) runs right behind my house. Indian Dunes, the site of the horrific Twilight Zone tragedy, was a popular filming location in the '70's. Even into the late '80's I remember flying over it and seeing a dirigible mockup for the Rocketeer there. Indian Dunes was perhaps best known for the Ba Ba Black Sheep airfield (now plowed under and planted with something)

http://members.tripod.com/airfields_freeman/CA/Airfields_CA_SanFernan.htm

Fly 'em
Don't hide 'em

Obie
 
That movie has great memories for me. I saw it in a theater in Keene, NH, on September 25, 1975.

I remember the date because I had my first solo earlier in the day. Very little left of the back of my shirt after my instructor went after it with scissors. Pretty cool movie to see on the night of a first solo. :icon_lol:

Thanks for the thread and the great shots, John.

-steve
 
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