Just watched the Battle of Britain !

[hlbly]

Time to grab a spitty and go hunt some Me-109's

[Anaxogoras]

Bring it on.

[Angus]

There is nothing more fun than humiliating a 109E in a Hurrycane I 

[Anaxogoras]

FYI, thebug's campaign series starts today in the AvA arena.

[hlbly]

FYI, thebug's campaign series starts today in the AvA arena.

whats that ?

[RipChord929]

TockaTockaTockaTockaTockaTock a....

Good flick man...

  RC

[Denholm]

Loved that film! Too bad hollywood believes computer animated aircraft to be more impressive today. Otherwise we could still be watching great films somewhat similar in contrast to this one.

[Nilsen]

There is nothing more fun than humiliating a 109E in a Hurrycane I 

because its soooo never gonna happen 

[Shifty]

Loved that film! Too bad hollywood believes computer animated aircraft to be more impressive today. Otherwise we could still be watching great films somewhat similar in contrast to this one.

Actually there are fewer and fewer flyable warbirds every year. Computer animated aircraft are much better every year. It will never take the place of the real thing, but I'm hopeful that some aviation movies can be made in the future that would impossible to do now because of the lack of real aircraft.

[Redlegs]

Great movie!

[Angus]

because its soooo never gonna happen 

Hehe, try it out with Shatzie. (And I did slay some 109E's as well, muhahaha)
Where has she been anyway?

[Angus]

Actually there are fewer and fewer flyable warbirds every year. Computer animated aircraft are much better every year. It will never take the place of the real thing, but I'm hopeful that some aviation movies can be made in the future that would impossible to do now because of the lack of real aircraft.

Not completely true.
I have seen 24 Spitfires at work together with a whole Balbo of others.
Then there is the new 190 and 262 project.......
BTW, BoB used a lot of models as well.

[Shifty]

Not completely true.
I have seen 24 Spitfires at work together with a whole Balbo of others.
Then there is the new 190 and 262 project.......
BTW, BoB used a lot of models as well.

Not every WWII aviation movie needs to be about Spitfires. 

You're never going to see something like a sky full of B-17s intercepted by a Geshwader of FW-190s without CGI.
Every year there are fewer and fewer flyable warbirds, due to airshow losses and people just not willing to risk their investment anymore.

Like you said even in the movie Battle of Britain they used RC controlled Stukas because there were no real ones.

Like you though I would rather see the real thing, I just don't see it being possible in most cases.
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[Furball]

The aircraft in the BoB film were flown by real war vets.  The 109s were Spanish 109s, flown by Spanish air force pilots.  Very cool stuff.

[Angus]

Not every WWII aviation movie needs to be about Spitfires. 

You're never going to see something like a sky full of B-17s intercepted by a Geshwader of FW-190s without CGI.
Every year there are fewer and fewer flyable warbirds, due to airshow losses and people just not willing to risk their investment anymore.

Like you said even in the movie Battle of Britain they used RC controlled Stukas because there were no real ones.

Like you though I would rather see the real thing, I just don't see it being possible in most cases.
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Well, you'll never need B17's or even 190's in a BoB movie anyway. And you had 190's fighting Spitties before B17's fired the first shot in anger anyway....
Now the Stukas...well that's a waste. Apparantly a delight to fly and very robust. But the models of the bigger sort quite make a challenge to even the best cgi, - the ones I have seen (up to B-17's) are awesome.
Lets all hope for more WW2 aviation on the silver screen anyway.