Ég fór í bíó að sjá myndina "Flyboys" Bjóst ekki við miklu, bjóst við lélegri tölvugrafík og að hraunð yrði yfir allar staðreyndir um flugvélar. En myndin kom á óvart en ég var samt feginn að vita tiltölulega lítið um flugvélar því oft fékk ég á tilfinninguna að hitt og þetta væri bara ekki mögulegt.
Þá fór ég á heimasíðu myndarinn til að finna upplýsingar um hvort módel hefðu eitthvað verið notuð og fann lítið um það.
Hér er "spurt&svarað" um hvort rétt sé farið með staðreyndir í myndinni: http://www.mgm.com/flyboys/pdf/real_vs_reel.pdf Það var gott að fá þessi svör eftir að hafa horft á myndina.
Heimasíða myndarinnar: http://www.mgm.com/flyboys/home.html
Hér er snilldar heimild um myndina: http://www.mgm.com/flyboys/pdf/production_notes.pdf
og má þar td. lesa þetta: Of the French
Nieuport 17's, which actually fly in the film, one is from a museum in
Florida; two were from the United Kingdom; and four other replicas were
built specifically for the film in Missouri. The full-scale replicas boast
eighty CC engines that were built from scratch for the aircraft. Each of
these planes are built from original plans, not kits. "These planes are all
skin," says Yves De Bono, Special Effects Supervisor. "Canvas, wood, and
wire, so they are very light." In addition to the full-scale reproductions,
De Bono and his team used the same materials in building several scale
models of the planes, which were used during some of the aerial battle
scenes. The filmmakers also used a 1909 Bleriot, 2 Fokker DR1’s, an SE-
5, a Sopwith 1½ Strutter and a Bristol Fighter, each of which were in use
at different points of the war.
Og þetta: Filmmakers used a maximum of six Nieuport aircraft aloft at any
one time, given the limits of the flight formations and camera framing.
Einnig þetta: When the
production had difficulty finding original plans for the French Nieuport
17, only produced briefly in 1915 and 1916, the producers ended up
discovering German design plans, created when one would go down
behind enemy lines. "The Germans got hold of the aircraft, dismantled it
completely and did technical drawings of it," says Wood. "So, we used the
German technical drawings of a Nieuport 17 to build our French planes,
which is fascinating, in its own right."
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