Thanks for the pics Dave. Just made the update on my site. But I was too lazy to blur the nude on the wall - now I feel bad, lol.

LOL Dave, or should we call you General Smutt!

(that's your site, so she's your baby)

Nice, but the pilots should look not too much "cinematographic". (1)

Have a look here on this Ebay album, with a excellent and inedite picture of Bölke.

http://cgi.ebay.de/Foto-Album-1-WK-Flieg...1QQcmdZViewItem




(1) in my opinion, the "Flyboys" (what an horrible movie) look and ambiance should be avoided at any costs!

Boelcke died in a flying accident, colliding with a comrade's plane in his flight if it's the same Boelcke. I only found this out today which is why I mention it, shocked

I liked Flyboys, it's not as if we have WW1 movies coming out of our ears

Ming

Wauw, amazing pics at that link!

http://cgi.ebay.de/Foto-Album-1-WK-Flieg...bayphotohosting

Software developers "not" working in cube-land??? What a concept.

IIRC, Boelke was one of Richtofen's first kills.


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I rewatched Flyboys this last week and put some of the grognard biases aside.

It's not really a bad film. Even the "love interest" has a purpose of showing that there was more to WWI than Ami's flying against the Hun in some sort of vaccuum. The French were actually people, it would seem, and worth fighting for.

Indeed, the romance part was very well handled. I was expecting five minutes of slow motion too-close-up cinematic soft porn (see Top Gun), but in fact he doesn't get to score (AFAIK).

Um, I think not Dart.

Boelcke was Richthofen's mentor and wrote the rules of engagement that he based his own tactics upon. They never flew as opponents, being both on the same side.

I think you are thinking of Hawker.

S!

Actually, I was making light of the fact that Richtofen was close by when Boelke collided with his wingman. It's often misquoted as having Richtofen hitting Boelke, when it wasn't the case.

Four planes were occupying a combat square of fifty feet to a side when when collision happened.

At any rate, it was Hun on Hun crunching that did the man in.

Manfred broke formation to chase an enemy, one plane swerved to avoid a crash and there was another
crash instead. Manfred carried guilt over that, he did blame his own action as the cause.