WW1 - Three Albatros Fighters Over The Front

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8 жыл бұрын

Here's a clip that shows three German Albatros biplane fighters (a D.II and two D.Va's) 'over the front'...
This is the only footage you'll find of the three reproduction Albatros aircraft built and operated by The Vintage Aviator Ltd in the air like this -- the video gives a very good sense of what it might have looked like over the Western Front back in 1917.
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@erikwade3668 4 жыл бұрын

As a modeler and Great War aviation enthusiast, I will always burn a candle in my heart for WNW and TVAL. Loved this video- especially the shift from sepia tone to full color. Very striking!

@historicalmachines 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! :-)

@fliegeroh 5 жыл бұрын

Absolutely fantastic. You'd have to go back more than a century to see them like this.

@exJacktar 8 жыл бұрын

I always liked the looks of the Albatross, she has beautiful lines.

@redwa11er 5 жыл бұрын

Such beautiful planes. Great footage with the sun shining behind them.

@theblytonian3906 2 жыл бұрын

Gorgeous cinematography.

@historicalmachines 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for that -- appreciate it.

@williameaton9058 5 жыл бұрын

You really cant help but appreciate the clarity of the footage, the 1910s footage never felt real due to the frame rate and speed.

@Belisarius9495 2 ай бұрын

Absolutely beautiful! The Albatross was a very graceful plane. The photography and lighting make create a wonderful scene.

@sandspar 8 жыл бұрын

3 great pilots, 18 great mechanics!

@stranraerwal 2 жыл бұрын

well, ain't that a bit exaggerated?

@Desertduleler_88 6 жыл бұрын

Fantastic, almost reliving the moment of WW1 history....

@jamiesworkshop3198 8 жыл бұрын

It is like an artist painting in real life!

@michaelratliff905 4 жыл бұрын

Beautifully done,..of these great fighters, ..I feel I'm in the 4th plane with a camera filming this great scene myself

@Lee78072 8 жыл бұрын

This Film have a very good Atmosphere. A big enjoyment to see those 3 Albatross in the Air toghether

@MrDaiseymay 4 жыл бұрын

MAKE A GREAT TARGET, THAT CLOSE TOGETHER.

@JohnS916 5 жыл бұрын

Cool video, felt close to getting chills just watching it. To think how advanced those airplanes looked compared to the first heavier than air airplane (Wright Bros.) that flew just 16-17 years earlier.

@moldovanbeniamin1578 2 жыл бұрын

Correction : 14 years earlier! The albstross is from late 1916.

@moldovanbeniamin1578 2 жыл бұрын

So that's even more amazing

@MrStoney61 8 жыл бұрын

OMG! That is so frickin' cool!

@bobdyer422 8 жыл бұрын

WOW! That looks really cool. You NZ guys have all the fun! Great vid!

@GuyOnTwoWheels 5 жыл бұрын

I could watch that all day!

@larryrwendelljr4465 8 жыл бұрын

Neat video, those were pretty well built, Thank you for sharing :o)

@veronicafermanelli1896 7 жыл бұрын

increible...los tres ....gracias por semejante produccion

@williamrobinson7435 Жыл бұрын

Wonderful! Thanks for this. 👍

@historicalmachines Жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it!

@BrianWMay 6 жыл бұрын

Once again, fabulous footage, thank you so much. Reading books about RFC/RNAS then being able to see this brings it to life. Manfred von Richthofen's book is also available on Kindle and well worth a read.

@CammieGee 8 жыл бұрын

Great film.

@DavidEarle-vx2mb 4 жыл бұрын

Flying masterpieces love those German planes and the allies as well

@bigmikeh 8 жыл бұрын

Very cool! THANKS!

@MrRobster1234 8 жыл бұрын

Great to see a sturdy D II in the air.

@moldovanbeniamin1578 2 жыл бұрын

How do you know it's a DII?

@MrRobster1234 2 жыл бұрын

@@moldovanbeniamin1578 Has no "V" struts on the wings and the top wing is much lower than a D I.

@moldovanbeniamin1578 2 жыл бұрын

Oooo,ok ok

@AdventuresofanoldSeadog 8 жыл бұрын

Brilliant!

@janmn6910 2 жыл бұрын

absolutely beautiful that planes were created to be planes not only war machines

@3-DtimeCosmology 7 ай бұрын

Beautiful planes.

@historicalmachines 6 ай бұрын

They are!

@72Alexf 3 жыл бұрын

Fantastic!!!

@historicalmachines 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Cheers!

@johnmelvinluce5320 Жыл бұрын

Wow just wow

@michaelbailey8729 11 ай бұрын

The engines were remarkablty reliable by WW1

@d3nx457 8 жыл бұрын

Nice

@Mr_Fancypants 8 жыл бұрын

awesome

@Red19UK 8 жыл бұрын

very cool.

@MrDaiseymay 4 жыл бұрын

A WONDERFUL SIGHT--AND SOUND, CONGRATS TO ALL INVOLVED

@historicalmachines 4 жыл бұрын

That was a particularly awesome flight -- it's not often that we manage to get above the clouds for some of these WW1 sorties, but that evening was a ripper, and the sight of the three Albatroses was most impressive!

@pietroseven8228 2 жыл бұрын

The CG is better and better :)

@historicalmachines 2 жыл бұрын

Rude! There's no CG there -- that's real footage of real aircraft.

@pietroseven8228 2 жыл бұрын

@jefftheriault5522 2 жыл бұрын

Mr. Jackson has the resources to produce a WW1 epic that would be the standard to meet for a century to come. Hell, it could be a trilogy, starting it's characters out in May 1914. He could show how the politicians stumbled over the edge, the newspapers keeping the attitudes of the people in the street fed with nationalistic jingoism, the business as usual attitude of the elites. The dawning awareness of some of the socialist leadership, and their efforts to arrest the slide. There could be a scene where Kaiser Willy finds the limits of his powers as he tries to get his Russian cousin to come to an agreement on both of them standing against mobilization.

@spottydog4477 5 жыл бұрын

Two RFC pilots didn't like this vid!

@57tricci 5 ай бұрын

If this clip was to interpret what it was like flying 100 plus years ago, I don't get it. It's a good video, it striking, and they look like some well looked after airplanes, other than that, it does not deliver it by the title. Somebody missed something in the titling of this clip. More like three: Albatross III flying...........

@historicalmachines 5 ай бұрын

It depends on how you read and interpret the title. I disagree with your comments. We never said anything about dogfighting etc etc -- this is what the aircraft in WW1 would have looked like on patrol...

@MapleSyrupPoet 10 ай бұрын

❤❤❤

@cpawp 8 жыл бұрын

Dawn patrol ...

@michaelfield3901 5 жыл бұрын

Imagine being in such a formation in 1917. You'd feel pretty invulnerable wouldn't you..?

@konsta524 3 жыл бұрын

And if one of those planes was red you would know you are invulnerable.

@theblytonian3906 2 жыл бұрын

Anything but. Any time in the line would leave you aware of just how vulnerable you were to enemy action. And although that's not super tight, they wouldn't be 'scouting' in such close formation as that in the operational area whether just a couple of machines or the full ' Circus'. They'd be in a looser formation -greater separation, so they could use their eyes to scan the sky and ground around them as it takes too much attention detracting from situational awareness to maintain station in close formation.

@lutziferproductions1885 7 жыл бұрын

Dusk patrol.

@elixir4487 8 жыл бұрын

Wahnsinn! (awesome)

@JayWC3333 3 жыл бұрын

Actually, it means mad/crazy...

@elixir4487 3 жыл бұрын

@@JayWC3333 Thx for correcting me in my native language I´m using for 30+ years.

@JayWC3333 3 жыл бұрын

@@elixir4487 You're welcome? Maybe the issue is your use of English...not the German you started with. That's a language I've been using for 40+ years.

@SergLa 4 жыл бұрын

Неужели это настоящая хроника?!

@historicalmachines 4 жыл бұрын

Это было снято в Новой Зеландии несколько лет назад. Это не кадры Первой мировой войны.

@SergLa 4 жыл бұрын

@@historicalmachines Спасибо. Выглядит эпично! Особенно развевающийся белый шарф у первого пилота. А также классический правый пеленг. Thanks. Looks epic! Especially the fluttering white scarf of the first pilot. As well as the classic right bearing.

@9DaVa9 8 жыл бұрын

Наверное скоро будет фильм о Первой Мировой... ;)

@mhp-bq3pb 2 жыл бұрын

Dull.

@historicalmachines 2 жыл бұрын

Only if you're not interested in the beauty of World War One aircraft, particularly Albatros fighters, and the sight of something taken out of the pages of history.