Product: Flyboys [Blu-ray] (2006)
Rating: 4.0
Enjoyed the film but two things not right
Towards the end when the hero challanges The Black Falcon instead of dropping him in the big field, The Black Falcon starts the rotary engine in his DR-1 and rises to the challange. Sorry, but WWI rotary engines had only wide open or no ignition settings. Partial power was achieved by intermittent blipping of the ignition kill switch and the inertia of the rotating engine mass keep them from stalling.They had chocks on the wheels and the ground crew spun the prop. They usually took off from where they were parked and they taxied in blipping away to their parking place. If The Black Falcon propped his own airplane in the middle of the field, I can guarantee that his own prop would slice him up like a deli salami!Also, very few DR-1's were painted all red. That was reserved forBaron Manfred von Richtofen. Otherwise I liked the movie.Yes, I'm a pilot.