A dogfight in a WW1 biplane.

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  • Опубліковано 4 лют 2025
  • In this fifth episode of our exclusive series on Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson's astonishing collection of First World War memorabilia, Lisa Hartle goes up in Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2 to re-enact a dogfight with a German triplane!
    The Oscar-winning filmmaker has shown us around his warehouse of artefacts in Wellington, where he works with his team to restore and create his beloved aircraft.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 54

  • @beniceffs
    @beniceffs Рік тому +18

    This is fabulous. My grandfather was an observer in the RE8, very similar to the BE2. Also attacked by a DR1. Crashed twice. Incredible. The combat report showed that with diving in a steep turn they managed to keep from being downed. Even after my grandad's lewis broke! The DR1 eventually gave up, dissuaded by aa fire.

  • @wayneantoniazzi2706
    @wayneantoniazzi2706 3 роки тому +15

    Loved the video! I used to model WW1 airplanes years ago so those planes are old friends!
    Next time, how about putting the Triplane up against a Bristol or a DH-4 for a fair fight? The Red Baron once said don't underestimate that rear gunner if he knows his trade!

  • @bobroberts6155
    @bobroberts6155 5 місяців тому +8

    This is what those young pilots would have seen, we can forget that the world was not in grainy black and white in those days.

    • @jal-kx6tm
      @jal-kx6tm 2 місяці тому +1

      in case you haven't, you should check out colorized footage going as far back as the 19th century. strange how just some color can make those images so much more relatable.

  • @malcolmparsons4808
    @malcolmparsons4808 3 роки тому +9

    Love these Biplanes. Great video too. Thank you for sharing.

  • @criffermaclennan
    @criffermaclennan 3 роки тому +43

    I'm not remotely jealous at all lol

    • @Duckcalculator
      @Duckcalculator 8 місяців тому +2

      I’m totally not jealous 😂

  • @StevenVanLoven
    @StevenVanLoven 3 роки тому +4

    Fantastic , I visit the old rhinebeck aerodrome in the US one day and it was one of the most fun moment I have experienced ! Great to see and keep it in the air.

  • @MajorBorris
    @MajorBorris 4 місяці тому

    That was awesome! Kudos to Peter Jackson for a One of a kind collection.

  • @arturoespinosa8985
    @arturoespinosa8985 5 місяців тому

    Amazing collection of vintage planes. I love it.

  • @petercyr3508
    @petercyr3508 2 місяці тому

    I have a pretty cool 1/4 scale, 25 lb Fokker DVII RC model. Just sayin'.
    Its really fabulous what Peter Jackson has done with this!

  • @terrybaird3122
    @terrybaird3122 11 днів тому

    Beautiful.

  • @jeffreyburrows9157
    @jeffreyburrows9157 5 місяців тому +2

    "Nah, just don't scream, that's all." :D

  • @Fazorplays
    @Fazorplays 2 роки тому +9

    wow, war thunder graphics got a lot better!

  • @deanc.5984
    @deanc.5984 Рік тому +2

    What a happy amazing passenger

  • @nagjrcjasonbower
    @nagjrcjasonbower 4 місяці тому +1

    Awesomesauce!!!

  • @mustangandfrankenstein
    @mustangandfrankenstein 9 місяців тому

    awesome video. huge fan of those beautiful planes and times.. flyboys of of my favorite movies...

  • @ronti2492
    @ronti2492 3 роки тому +3

    Great video in a top series! Nice, professional work too from Lisa and her team, I'm assuming she is leading this push as a producer?

  • @sean68mtown
    @sean68mtown 6 місяців тому +2

    Dreidecker toying with that BE2 like a cat with a mouse…

  • @Paleos1000
    @Paleos1000 7 місяців тому

    My God - what a collection!

  • @hmartin7544
    @hmartin7544 8 місяців тому

    Beautiful aircraft👍👍

  • @johnnyjet3.1412
    @johnnyjet3.1412 7 місяців тому +1

    A great-uncle served in the spruce squadrons on the Oregon coast logging the spruce groves to send the lumber to the WW1 aircraft factories.

  • @rabbi_dragon_slayer
    @rabbi_dragon_slayer Рік тому +2

    Ahhh yes, the f*kker triplane, red baron even flew that

  • @johnmassoud930
    @johnmassoud930 Рік тому +1

    Too cool

  • @RonLWilson
    @RonLWilson 3 роки тому +5

    Yes, that was pretty much an unfair match.
    That said, it would be interesting to see a more equal one, say an SE-2 against the Fokker triplane.

  • @raypurchase801
    @raypurchase801 3 роки тому +4

    That's not an FE2B!
    Surely it's a BE2.
    (Please correct me if I'm mistaken, or correct the titling.)

  • @Channel-os4uk
    @Channel-os4uk 2 роки тому +4

    Not sure a lumbering BE2 could 'dogfight.'..

  • @NRH111
    @NRH111 10 місяців тому +1

    "we would so be gone!" get on the lewis gun then

  • @ricardoalves5092
    @ricardoalves5092 Рік тому +2

    Belas imagens parabéns!

  • @F3PIZZA
    @F3PIZZA 3 роки тому +1

    Y’all got Kiwi Tom Cruise maverickin around down there.

  • @GraemeCree
    @GraemeCree 2 роки тому

    When you're in an Brisfit and having trouble outdistancing a Dr.I, you need to put your foot down.

  • @МаяСтефанова-м3т
    @МаяСтефанова-м3т 5 місяців тому

    TAILS❤❤❤

  • @jonriley8342
    @jonriley8342 Рік тому

    “ Why would they wear these jackets? “ she asks

  • @AAA1AAA1AAA6
    @AAA1AAA1AAA6 9 місяців тому

    How about to renounce to the modern day technologies and embrace back these easy things.

  • @cansadomehallo
    @cansadomehallo 6 місяців тому

    Waldo P. Barnstormer strikes again!!!!!

  • @samuelcruz9258
    @samuelcruz9258 Місяць тому

    Es fantástico y a la vez aterrador. Tener a un avión fokker triplano a tus espaldas no es divertido. 😢

  • @Frankestein01nl
    @Frankestein01nl 3 роки тому

    Ah, the video that was actually destined to appear in 1915 as the battle raged in europe!

  • @whatsagoodname8597
    @whatsagoodname8597 Рік тому

    3.28 speed and drop the throttle dip left and forward into a bank and crank throttle. a left hand quicky

  • @doylehargrave233
    @doylehargrave233 Рік тому

    Is that a Laco Flieger the pilot is wearing?

  • @roscothefirst4712
    @roscothefirst4712 3 роки тому

    Bad position for the Lewis gun in the forward cockpit

  • @markseubert9779
    @markseubert9779 10 місяців тому

    4 blades prop?

  • @Otto-mq8lg
    @Otto-mq8lg 8 місяців тому

    🫡🍑 Amazing human history, I love to get a break down of the first brand model engines which ran the propeller on these, so cool.. ⚙ As I am watching the 2019 film 1917..

  • @marksummers463
    @marksummers463 Рік тому

    Pls watch the Oh my Gods. Thanks!

  • @bunk95
    @bunk95 Рік тому

    Theres that German marked plane.
    She didnt act like she died in a crash there did she?

  • @slehar
    @slehar Рік тому

    Woo hooo!

  • @MorrisonLee-wt2jp
    @MorrisonLee-wt2jp Рік тому

    He sounds like an Aussie or Kiwi, but she is English. Is this in NZ?

    • @MBCGRS
      @MBCGRS 6 місяців тому

      Yes.

  • @grahamthebaronhesketh.
    @grahamthebaronhesketh. 3 роки тому

    0.56 get on the fake Luftwaffe watch.

    • @bunk95
      @bunk95 Рік тому

      I can stand a [citizen] even when theyre marketed alongside/with any nation.

    • @MBCGRS
      @MBCGRS 6 місяців тому +1

      Wearing a Kevlar helmet with comms... and you're calling out his watch..?

  • @9155-s7t
    @9155-s7t Рік тому +1

    Fine go shell then with no nickets gal