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Old 24 June 2009, 04:44 AM   #1 (permalink)
Stephan
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Man Moment Machine MVR. Let's count the mistakes

I caught a few. 1. It mentioned Manfred "ordered" a silver victory cup for himself after his 1st victory, when in fact it was Boelke who awarded these to his cubs.

2. Gordon Bowman Jones mentioned Hawker showed Manfred moves he'd never seen before & Manfred could NOT get him off his tail. BS. They circled each other. One could easily say Hawker couldn't get Manfred off his tail. Truth is, they were in a circle. & as to Hawker's "never before seen moves" Manfred mentioned in his diary; My opponent then did a series of silly loops.

3. He never recovered from his head wound & just wasn't the same man. Speculation, & I've read the opposite where he actually did finally get over the vertigo & headaches.


4. Naturally it mentioned him flying too low & too far over enemy territory. Ernst Udet mentioned in his book following Manfred over enemy trenches very low & strafing them. Schoenbeck mentioned in The Aces Talk book, ( Ed Sims), that they flew over enemy lines very frequently.

A neat program in some respects, Albatross spar probs covered & Manfreds 1st encounter with a Sopwith Tripe were pretty cool, but the same old errors seem to die hard.
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