As a kid back in the late 60's and early 70's and an absolute airplane nut (some things never change) I absolutely LOVED this movie. This, my younger friends, was back in the days of rabbit ears, no VCR let alone DVD's. Blue Rays or digital downloads, so my viewing was limited to the whims of the local stations. Saw it in the theaters three times and was actually the last movie I saw with my dad. I had every book written about the movie and paper clippings, record sound tracks and even drew the original movie logo with the flags crossing each other if you can remember back that far!
Nowadays, we have all these wonderful means of sharing and someone was kind enough to go through the trouble of converting the original Super 8 mm to digital so they could post it on You Tube. Some of this is just fantastic, especially the scene on the airfield with the HE 111 and the Buchons with a Junkers JU 52, airplane heaven!!
Check it out. This is back in the days when it was all done with real planes or models, in this case, the only plane that was depicted with a model( for the most part) were the Stukas, which were either 1/2 or 3/4 scale (can't remember) R/C planes!
The guys with the Cowboy hats are members of the (then)Confederate Air force, who were there to fly the fighters. The He 111's were still in service with the Spanish air Force at the time and they had just started phasing (read'chopping up') the Me 109's (a Buchon is a Spanish made version of the Me 109, originally with a DB 601, but when they ran out of those, they converted them to Merlins).
As I've posted before, a lot of the planes are sitting in a big hangar in Texas if you can believe that! A few years later, the Spanish junked out the He 111's and I believe the only one left is the Commemorative Air Forces one, which came from the movie as well, so sad!
Grossman56
Nowadays, we have all these wonderful means of sharing and someone was kind enough to go through the trouble of converting the original Super 8 mm to digital so they could post it on You Tube. Some of this is just fantastic, especially the scene on the airfield with the HE 111 and the Buchons with a Junkers JU 52, airplane heaven!!
Check it out. This is back in the days when it was all done with real planes or models, in this case, the only plane that was depicted with a model( for the most part) were the Stukas, which were either 1/2 or 3/4 scale (can't remember) R/C planes!
The guys with the Cowboy hats are members of the (then)Confederate Air force, who were there to fly the fighters. The He 111's were still in service with the Spanish air Force at the time and they had just started phasing (read'chopping up') the Me 109's (a Buchon is a Spanish made version of the Me 109, originally with a DB 601, but when they ran out of those, they converted them to Merlins).
As I've posted before, a lot of the planes are sitting in a big hangar in Texas if you can believe that! A few years later, the Spanish junked out the He 111's and I believe the only one left is the Commemorative Air Forces one, which came from the movie as well, so sad!
Grossman56
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