Dawn Patrol

watch this movie and you'll hear the authentic sounds of those Gnome rotary engines
There's more talking than flying in this great old film, but the brief air combat episodes are worth waiting for... wonderful scenes of pilots in their Nieuport 28s gunning and blipping the engines prior to takeoff at dawn, banking and zooming against DVIIs, and yawing and side slipping in to land. WWI and classic aero buffs will like this movie.

Great WW 1 buddy epic
While acknowledging the often stiff and stuffy elements of the story and action, I found myself deeply involved with the characters. Barthelmess is a little stiff, but Douglas Fairbanks Jr is great as a fearless ace in this WW I film. The flimsy airplanes that visibly wobble in the wind are the real thing, as are the great dogfights. One major drawback is the image quality-very soft and muddy.

The first!
This is a great movie about how responsibility weighs harder on the shoulders of those who get stuck with it....

It's interesting to see the 1930 original when the 1938 Errol Flynn remake is so much easier to get hold of (many of the flying sequences in this movie were reused in 1938).
It's also interesting to see the take on the Great War in the air as shown in films like this, also Wings and Hells Angels......
brilliant stunt flying - and who knew that France looked so much like Southern California? ;-)
This is a good movie.

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