Saw the movie last week. Great film.
Steve, I’ve been watching the Advertisements for it… Seems to be a kind of ““Follow-on”” for the movie ““Tuskeegee Airmen””… Looks to be as interesting a movie as ““Tuskeegee Airmen””…
P-51s are a BAD ass airplane even today …
The P-51’s in my opinion were the Best fighter ever built… One of the 2 airplanes I’ve always loved… the second one was the B-17…
Andy Clarke said:OR the Corsair that was a awesome plane gul wing and all......................... Pappy Boughington. Sweeeeeeeeeeeet...........
The P-51's in my opinion were the Best fighter ever built... One of the 2 airplanes I've always loved.... the second one was the B-17....
Yes im young but i do know Greatness when i see it…
yes, Nick… that plane was number 3…
I think the movie was well worth seeing but I would have liked to have seen a bit more character development over special effects.
You know how some “train” guys get with TV portrayals of trains (Hell on Wheels for example?)…Well that’s me with WWII history.
They mixed the stories of the 477th bomber group with the 332nd fighter group. But what “bugged me” was the aircraft chosen were not the correct planes. The Tuskegee airmen were given P-40’s, followed by P-39 Air Cobras, then P-47’s, then P-51C’s. The P-51B/C is quite a different animal than the D-model used in the movie. You can see two of the four remaining flyable p-51B/C’s flying in Tuskegee colors today. One crashed back in 2005 killing the pilot but has since been restored to flight operations.
I have to say the completely MODERN “color-ful” ethnic gangland language in the TV commercials completely turned me off… If it is an accurate PERIOD representation of events then shouldn’t it have accurate language as well? OR at least an attempt at it?
I will wait until it shows up on TV or on Showtime/cinemax whatever to watch it.
Chas
I guess I missed that.
Ok Steve, So your saying the marketting geniuses took it upon themselves to market to an ethnic audience other than me in the few commercials I’d seen for this movie? No surprise there… Hello Hollywood…
Chas
Hope to see the movie this coming weekend. There were a lot of great aircraft from that era. My personal favorite from WWII is the “Fork-Tailed Devil,” also known as the P38 Lightening. The closest I could come to a model in any of our scales was 1:18.
(http://1stclass.mylargescale.com/davemeashey/P3801.JPG)
Have fun, David Meashey
Hollywood has always been known to distort the fact and truth in order to obtain audiences… That’s nothing new, why would this movie be any different… They always have to try and ““glamourize”” movies…
Not ‘OUR’ Hollywood? You must mean the other Hollywood. 
Most folks say the P-51D was the greatest single engine fighter of WW2, however if you know your planes, the F4U Corsair was actaully superior in a great many respects. IMHO the Corsair actually was the superior fighter.
Victor Smith said:Yeah, the Corsair could take a lickin' and keep on tickin' with that radial engine. The liquid cooled engine of the Mustang only needed one well placed round to ruin the pilot's day.
Most folks say the P-51D was the greatest single engine fighter of WW2, however if you know your planes, the F4U Corsair was actaully superior in a great many respects. IMHO the Corsair actually was the superior fighter.
Still…
There are a lot of arguments for/against what was the best WWII fighter. Perhaps the best argument for the Corsair is it’s continued combat use well past Korea.
The Axis had some amazing aircraft that do not get the press because they lost. The Japanese Ki84 ‘Frank’ could hold it’s own with anything we had at the time. The FW190 was right up there too.
The Bf 109 was used by some Air Forces well into the 50’s as well. So was the Spitfire.
Want more ‘strange but true’ facts??? The Egyptians used Spitfires to battle the Israeli’s flying the Avia S.199. The Avia was a Czech version of the Messerschmitt Bf 109G. Yep, early Israeli air-force used Nazi aircraft to win their freedom. How’s that for historical irony?
For clairity, they were Czech built. I find it odd that the “Battle of Britain” would re-play itself in the skies of the middle-east post WWII.
Mark V said:
Want more 'strange but true' facts??? The Egyptians used Spitfires to battle the Israeli's flying the Avia S.199. The Avia was a Czech version of the Messerschmitt Bf 109G. Yep, early Israeli air-force used Nazi aircraft to win their freedom. How's that for historical irony?For clairity, they were Czech built. I find it odd that the “Battle of Britain” would re-play itself in the skies of the middle-east post WWII.
So who won?
I think they’re still at it!
For the record…The Avia won the 1st Spit vs. Avia dogfight.