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Old 13 June 2008, 08:31 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Old 15 June 2008, 02:33 AM   #2 (permalink)
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A joy to watch... And not a computer generated image in sight...

Thanks for posting that.

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Old 15 June 2008, 08:27 AM   #3 (permalink)
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Thanks! I had forgotten about how cool that was. I need to go buy that movie...
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That was indeed great! I too had also completely forgotten about that scene. Can anyone remind me of the context behind the "duel"?
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Old 15 June 2008, 02:11 PM   #5 (permalink)
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If anyone has any spare DVDs or tapes of The Great Waldo Pepper or the Blue Max, let me know!
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Old 15 June 2008, 02:28 PM   #6 (permalink)
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great video good that there is no cgi looks real if the caera man wasnt there and they di9dnt take off from the same airfeild and othr stuff
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I hadn't seen that in a while, thanks!

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Phew! Thanks for that Jumpinjan, bloody marvellous. I keep on saying I'm going to get the DVD, so off to Amazon now.
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Old 16 June 2008, 07:01 PM   #9 (permalink)
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Remains one of my all time favourite aerial sequences from a non war movie. The replicas are superb,as is the flying of course. I think around the same time Frank Tallman orchestrated another great sequence for the film "Capricorn one", the chase between the red stearman and the helicopter gunships. Just awesome.
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Behind The Scenes!
At the time of the film shooting of this particular movie scene for THE GREAT WALDO PEPPER (near "Magic Mountain" in Valencia, CA), I was a young flight instructor WAY back when...and I would take my students out over the movie set's airfield to watch the progress of the filming (of course out of sight) from above!

Before this movie was filmed, my flying student, Len Hebert, had helped build the reproduction Sopwith Camel that was used in the movie, and Len invited me out to Orange County Airport to Frank Tallman's "Movieland Of The Air" to help out the day of the test flight with the Camel. Upon Frank's first landing, he accidentally ground looped the Camel (with no damage), probably mostly due to his wooden leg! We ran up to the Camel after the dust had cleared, and Frank Tallman said to us, "Yep, it ground loops just like my original Camel did!"

Great memories for me here...

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