To me it was entertainment and passable at that, but it was not very accurate and therefore it will only be entertainment.
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Bummer.Really was a lousy movie.
To me it was entertainment and passable at that, but it was not very accurate and therefore it will only be entertainment.
Nonsense. Shearing enemy birds' wings off with your landing gear is a long time honored method of air-to-air combat.
Right up there with looping and then shooting the guy with a pistol. Don't they still teach that one as a viable combat tactic at Pensacola?
Actually that was how the first air to air kills were recorded in WW1. The first aircraft were not fighters but rather Recon aircraft and they carried pistols obviously encase they crashed. When they saw another aircraft they would sometimes engage it with there pistol.
But the scene in the movie was rough to watch. German on our hero's tail, our hero loops and shoots the German through the head with his trusty service revolver. All this requires the German to go from being ace of the skies to idiot of the world in less time than it takes our hero to do his loop (seeing as he was sitting there fat, dumb and happy when our hero shoots), some incredible accuracy for our hero to fire across the space between the two airplanes (both moving at odd speeds over rough air) and hit the German with one shot (very economical on ammunition).
Dear Hollywood, I understand the "willing suspention of disbelief" is a requirment in a movie. But I'd have to be a moron to believe some of the stuff (not all but some) in that movie was accurate. In short, you're killing me!
I tihnk the best way to treat the film is as a Boy's Own adventure. Forget notions of realistic situations or physics, don't worry about the talky bits, enjoy the flying scenes.
Now, if only someone would do a WW2 version. And not involve anyone who was in any way connected with Pearl Harbour