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Combat Warplanes / Re: RAF History, the bits not all people know!

« on: October 21, 2007, 06:58:59 PM »

Very interesting. Can you maybe explain to us why some Squadrons in the RAF have their own latin motto sentence. In this context i would be very interested in who decides for a squadron to get a motto. The motto itself has to do with the units history in most cases if i understand this right. e.g: 630 Sq. - Nocturna Mors

Kilian

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Combat Warplanes / Re: Warplanes in Movies

« on: October 20, 2007, 05:31:17 PM »

Very nice HasBiba!

Ive seen many times the Mirage 2000-5F. They are hoovering over the farm of my uncle in low-altitude at least 2 times a day. He lives in Burgundy where they operate from Dijon-Longvic air base and fly to training in Jura mountains area

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Combat Warplanes / Re: Warplanes in Movies

« on: October 19, 2007, 10:18:11 PM »

We dont need to give notes. Just added one of my favorite movies to the list: "The Final Countdown"

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Combat Warplanes / Re: Warplanes in Movies

« on: October 19, 2007, 05:17:02 PM »

Great listing...thanks for your effort. I will have it like this....everytime i will stumble across a movie on tv or whereever i will add it to the list here...otherwise it would be too time consuming

Maybe later i could make a webpage for this. I had once a project with a friend of mine where we listed all movies we ever watched online with a summary and voting from 1-10....unfortunately we had to stop for time reasons. ( http://filmliste.sladdajaddax.de/ )

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Combat Warplanes / Re: Albatros C.III

« on: October 19, 2007, 05:05:20 PM »

Thanks very much for the information. I had never seen this plane before.

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Combat Warplanes / Re: Albatros C.III

« on: October 17, 2007, 12:12:39 PM »

Does someone have an idea what these are?

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Combat Warplanes / Re: Warplanes in Movies

« on: October 17, 2007, 10:44:47 AM »

Ive checked the scene. It looked indeed a bit like an Arado but with propellers instead of jet engine. What it really was will stay the secret of Steven Spielberg

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Combat Warplanes / Re: Albatros C.III

« on: October 14, 2007, 12:49:06 AM »

Only thing i know is what Dan San told me. Its an Alb.C.III 14x/16 from production serial batch,
C.100/16 to C.199/16

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Combat Warplanes / Re: Albatros C.III

« on: October 13, 2007, 08:10:20 PM »

What story would you think of? I have no information about the people or which unit it was.

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Combat Warplanes / Albatros C.III

« on: October 13, 2007, 06:18:02 PM »

Sneak preview on my next blog image

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Combat Warplanes / Re: Warplanes in Movies

« on: October 12, 2007, 05:59:39 PM »

Quote from: Nico Braas on October 11, 2007, 09:16:33 PM

Also the Northop XB-49 flying wing appeared in a movie: 'The War of the Worlds' (the first one with Orson Wells!).
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And in 'Raiders of the Lost Arc' with Harrison Ford we have even seen a big (fictive) Horten flying wing freightplane of the Luftwaffe taxiing on the ground.

I guess you mean H.G.Wells. Orson Welles does not play in this movie

For the Raiders of the Lost Ark i will have to check the DVD...i cannot remember the scene. But ive read through various Movie forums and found a statement that it could also have been more like the Arado E.555
In this context i found this interesting link:

http://www.luft46.com/arado/are555s.html
http://paul.whizx.co.nz/interior/arado.html

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Combat Warplanes / Warplanes in Movies

« on: October 11, 2007, 07:16:43 PM »

This thread shall become a listing of hollywood and all other noticeable TV Movies involving warplanes listing all warplane types appearing in the movie. I got the idea for this when i yesterday watched Top Gun after some 6-7 years only to find out that i totally forgot which planes were involved in the movie. So everytime you watch a War movie you may make a posting here and i add to the list.