If you have seen the Reaching For the Skies series

In the version, The Birth of Air Combat. I saw a WW1 aircraft that I do not know what it is,plus I can't find it anywere! In the movie,the plane is found when they are showing footage of the flying circus and telling about the Baron. It shows him fighting a plane in checkered colors. The plane in checkered colors is the plane I have no idea what it is. I hope someone knows the series and the plane im talking about!

[PeterL]

That footage is from a German film of 1938 (Jasta 88?) and the aircraft is a Bucker 131. The Fokker DrI in the sequence is genuine so your confusion is understandable.

Thanks so much for replying, was the Bucker 131 used in ww1? What I have researched on the plane it was a ww2 german plane!

[PeterL]

Thanks so much for replying, was the Bucker 131 used in ww1? What I have researched on the plane it was a ww2 german plane!

Quite right. Then, as now, a biplane is a biplane in movieland. The proliferation of Tigermoths and Stearmans in WWI flicks is nothing new.