If you have seen the REACHING FOR THE SKIES series

12 January 2003, 04:18 AM

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!

MichaelWheet · 12 January 2003, 04:26 AM

I haven't seen the series, and this is a total shot in the dark, but could it have been Rhinebeck's Avro 504K?

http://www.oldrhinebeck.org/aircraft/avro504.htm

12 January 2003, 07:22 AM

No its not that. The plane is a single seater fighter, but its wierd because its wings are not strait but bent slighty.

PeterL · 12 January 2003, 07:29 AM

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.

12 January 2003, 10:21 AM

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!