• There seems to be an up tick in Political commentary in recent months. Those of us who are long time members of the site we know that Political and Religious content has been banned for years. Nothing has changed. Please leave all political and religiours commentary out of the fourms.

    If you recently joined the forums you were not presented with this restriction in the terms of service. This was due to a conversion error when we went from vBulletin to Xenforo. We have updated our terms of service to reflect these corrections.

    Please note any post refering to a politicion will be considered political even if it is intended to be humor. Our experience is these topics have a way of dividing the forums and causing deep resentment amoung members. It is a poison to the community. We apprciate compliance with the rules.

    The Staff of SOH

  • Server side Maintenance is done. We still have an update to the forum software to run but that one will have to wait for a better time.

What is that outside the cockpit?

Olham54 said:
This is a fine thread; thanks, PAARMA and OvS for the infos.
And BULLETHEAD, I think you got it explained in best detail - there'd be many purposes to use flares for. Thank you all.

And CATFISH: so it wasn't in FLYBOYS, but DER ROTE BARON? Ooops.
Click to expand...

Yep, Der Rote Baron. But a flare would NEVER be able to do that to a Balloon. Balloons were made of thin canvas, not bed linen. They were inflated until taught, providing little room to conform to an impact. Not like you see in the movie. The impact of a flare would not be able to push in like that. It would either bounce off, or stick to it, then burn through. It looked like he tossed a brick at it.

OvS
 
Yes, that's what made me wonder, OvS. It couldn't have been so easy to kill a balloon.
Also, in the movie there was an Albatros performing a hell of a dive, full speed. I don't believe, the lower wings would have allowed that.
That's the problem with computer-generated air combat scenes - they are not done with the real thing, and the guys who make them, mostly know too little about flying these crates. And then there may be even the producer telling them, what the people expected for their money.
 
Agree. If the scenes in the movie were real, there'd be a lot of planes falling from the sky without wings.

They fly like F-16's. But that was the complaint with Flyboys as well.

But still, a much higher and more accurate effort on the paints than Flyboys EVER could amount to. The N17's in Flyboys looked like NASCAR's with all the emblems and logos on them.

OvS
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top