Bridge in The Blue Max.

[Laserlloyd]

Hi Peter:

I had help, Babel Fish translator along with siblings Copy an Paste. It didn't take that long. If I couldn't copy it then I would had to type it into Babel Fish a you my never hear from me again.

Thanks

Lloyd...

[trackpad]

Originally Posted by moritz55

Well, as I see no one over the Atlantique ocean speaks french or only to say "voulez vous coucher avec moi" (and in that case my answer is NO unless you are a pretty little woman), .

Bonsoir, Thierry/Moritz55!

Ah, mon vieux, il y a beaucoup de gens qui parle le francais ici. Tout simplement, on peut visiter le Canada, especiallement la belle province de Quebec. Et, pour votre information, je ne suis PAS une jeune fille si belle!

Salud, mon ami!

[shackleton]

Tres bien notre ami merci

[moritz55]

Well, Lloyd, as we say in France "Tu m'as coupé l'herbe sous le pied!", that means "you cut the grass under my foot". The translation you give us is quiet good but it's stays some funny mistakes. Did you read back the translation?
I was about to finish my own translation. So now what stays to me to do is drinking some good Belgium beers to forget all that lost work.
Trackpad : All apologies, I almost forgot la belle province...How could I, since you send us your best products : Plamendon, Garou (Belle.....), Céline Dion, Natacha Saint Pierre, Isabelle Boulay. Well, the two last are the kind I was speaking about in my thread.
Si vous passez en france venez me voir, je vous ferez visiter le champ de bataille de Verdun en avion.
Salut à tous,
Thierry.

[Laserlloyd]

moritz55:

I just ran the text thou the translator and keep the errors in the text. I'll leave the correct grammar up to everyone else to do.

Lloyd...

[moritz55]

Hello,
I surrender to the Lafayette fellows
A question to Lloyd : Do you product any parts for the Spandau gun? I can't find back where, on the forum, someone does that in fiber or something like that. Was it you?
Thierry.

[Major Larabee]

Originally Posted by Laserlloyd

Part two:

The film was made to Ireland in the surroundings of Dublin, on the ground of Weston. The landscape resembled that of the Sum it, although in spring 1918, the landscapes were to be much less green and resembling vast rather extended from mud strewn with craters of bombs and decapitated tree trunks! The sky surrounding there was encumbered also little and free from fog and another pollution. The Irish Department of Defence provides an appreciable help and more than 1000 soldiers passed two weeks to remake one of the bloodiest battles of the second world war. Turning in Ireland was endeuillé by the death of a cameraman, killed at the time of a collision between two helicopters. One of the pilots stuntmen was Derek Piggott. Several pilots reproduced the animated dog-fights film, but Piggot was the only one which agreed to turn the scene where Fokker Dr. 1 must pass between the piles of a bridge, located at Fermoy, (Co. Cork). Playing the part of two German pilots, it stole fifteen times between the most spaced piles, and ten seven times between the most brought closer that its wings passed very close to. The scene was filmed under various angles and starting from a helicopter. A herd of sheep placed near the bridge, disperses in the passing of the plane, to go up that the cascade is quite real.

Lastly, last goal not least, this film is also remarkable by the few scenes of love between the pilot commoner and the beautiful aristocrat who allow us to admire the fall of the kidneys of Mrs Ursula ANDRESS, at best of his (his) form (S).

Planes of film: The production insisted that turning uses authentic reproductions of the original planes. Last nine planes were thus built for 500.000 $, a not very important sum according to the current prices. The task was distributed between several manufacturers. Douglas Bianchi and Personal Plane Ltd Services manufactured one of both Pfalz D-III (EI-ARC, N906AC), Peter Hillwood of Hampshire Aeroplane Club, a test pilot to the retirement, built the other (EI-ARD, G-ATIJ). First was exported in Zealand News in 2001. Four counterparts of RAF SE.5 with to the 1/85° were built in England by the company Slingsby Sailplanes Ltd (c/n 1591,1592,1593,1594, EI-ARI, J, L, K) under the name of “Currie Wot SE.5”. John Bitz of Munich was charged with both Fokker Dr1, and Claude Rousseau, of the three Fokker D.VII. Last finished its work, Rousseau made a point of delivering one of its Fokker by the way of the airs of Dinard to Dublin, in three stopovers, thus showing the quality of its counterparts. These planes are besides always in-flight status in the United States (F-BNDF, EI-APV, N902AC/F-BNDG, EI-APT, N903AC/F-BNDH, EI-APV, N904AC). But this last type of plane is anachronistic and does not correspond at the time of the action which one can locate a little before the death of Richthofen, that is to say in spring 1918. Jasta 11 used only very little Pfalz D III, with dimensions of its Albatross, between December 1917 and January 1918; these apparatuses were gradually replaced by of triplane Fokker, arrived at Jasta 11 in October 1917, whereas Fokker D.VII are delivered only in May 1918.

The Irish air force lent its installations of the aerodrome of Breaking (Baldonnel) for turning. Several counterparts remained stored after film with Casement and Powerscourt House (County Wicklow); until in the years four twenties, one could see them flying on the occasion.

The decoration of the German planes, all covered systematically with a painting with rhombus of colors, leaves something to be desired. If this kind of camouflage existed well and with many alternatives, its dominant was not the chestnut and the gray as in film, but rather the green or the khaki one, according to last research. Fokker D.VII left factory with this camouflage to 4 or 5 let us tons different, of rather dark aspect, painted on the fabric, but no Fokker Dr. 1 carried this camouflage. As for Pfalz D.III whose fuselage was out of plywood covered with fabric, its photographs often shows a plane painted of clear color (the painting of factory was a metal gray “silbergrau”) and covered personal decorations. Jasta 11 had as a color of identification the red, which means that its planes were partly painted this color, generally on before fuselage.

As in any film on the First World War, the German planes systematically carry the iron or Maltese cross. In fact, only Fokker D.VII, appeared subsequently to the directive of recommending March 20, 1918 of the crosses on right board, N `never carried from there, except for some specimens of preproduction. But, with the cinema, it appears that an iron cross makes more teuton that the Latin cross… the decoration of Fokker Dr1 425/17 of Richthofen seen in film, is about correct: any red with the iron crosses, as it was in March 1918; but according to the photographs of time, the white zones of the crosses are inaccurate, just as the white rudder with half. In April 1918, Richthofen will be killed on the same plane carrying of the Latin crosses (one did not badinait with the execution of the directives in the imperial army.).

Another expensive heresy with the cinema: machine-guns. They were not actuated with the hand, but with an order placed on the handle; only, rearmament was manual. That is valid for the English machine-guns also. The models of LMG 08/15 allemandes are about in conformity, but they are fixed too much high, on a little light amounts. The true ones were fixed at the short-nap cloth of the engine cowling. When the machine-guns of Stachel are stopped, it should have used a small hammer intended to type on the cylinder heads and provided to the pilots for this purpose. Let us announce in the passing, that the German hunters could not carry bombs, contrary to certain English hunters like Sopwith Camel.

At the end of film, Morane Saulnier 230 fact of thinking indeed of Fokker E.V, monoplane parasol brought too quickly into service in August 1918, whereas he suffered from problems of rupture of wings… But the color money whose Morane in film is covered suggests a metal coating. However, the biplane Zeppelin Lindau (Dornier) D1 which killed “Willi” Reinhardt, out of metal… is this was almost entirely built a coincidence there, or the fruit of a good information retrieval?

In the middle of De Havilland Tiger Moth/Fokker and of Stampe/SE.5 (of which the c/n 1060, EI-AVU, F-BAUR, N901AC), added there to make number, one notices Caudron 277 Firefly (c/n 7546/135, EI-ARF), successively seeming a two-seater of English observation, then German.

The majority of these planes were bought in 1986 by Fighting Air Command of Hartlee Field (Texas). The four SE.5 were exported in the USA (N908, 9,10,12AC) but are not more in a state of vol. the Firefly were seriously damaged in the collapse of its hangar in Ireland, and had to be entirely restored. It currently flies in Tucson (Arizona) registered N909AC.

Christian Santoir

Interesting, sadly incorrect as regards the SE5's! Blue Max had two full size SE5's built by FG Miles in the UK and powered by Gipsy Queen engine's. The 6, not 4, 7/8 Slingsby Curry/Wot SE5's were built for "Darling Lili" which followed and used the same A/C.

[Laserlloyd]

moritz55:

I have been lucky to hold several of Dave Watts's Spandau's that he owns but I don't have any thing to do with them. Dave is the expert on these and he knows a lot about the gun's that are still out there. If your looking for a part for the Spandau them I would have you contact Dave as he could help you. He hasn't spent that much time him in the forum this year because he's vary busy but I can give you his email and you can try to get a hold of him there. Shoot me a PM and I will give you him email address.

Lloyd...