Doing a little check ride in the Taifun, i hadn't flown her for a while.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Adam

That is a nice aircraft Adam, been on my list to buy for sometime but I just haven't done it. Outstanding shots of the plane and the scenery looks great, but of course it is orbx.

Nice set :o

John, Tim, thank you fellas.

 

Adam

As all you screenies, these are superb shots again! I haven't flown her for quite a while too. I think, there has been a service pack some time ago. I should install it and take her out for a spin again.

Once again you've floored us!!

 

Brilliant!!!

Mike, venustus, thank you guys.

 

Adam

Adam there is something about your shots that you have got soooooo right!. :Applause:

Great shot.

 

nebojsa

Appreciate that Ed, thank you.

 

nebojsa, thank you much.

 

Adam

Superb set of shots Adam!

That is a nice looking 'schmitt! I'll agree with the others that your screens are very realistic and always a pleasure to view.

 

Does anyone know if that is the same plane they used in one of the Indiana Jones' movies? (The one with Sean Connery as his dad?) Love the scene where he (Connery) used his umbrella to bring down the plane! :LMAO:

That was one of my favorite scenes in that series of great movies.

 

Regards,

Steve Dra

Steve i think this the plane, a Belgian Stampe SV.4 biplane, i enjoyed that movie as well, anything with Sean Connery.

 

Thank you very much Steve.

Very nice pics of a very nice FS add-on. And to answer the movie trivia question which cropped up:

 

The 'fighter' used in the movie Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade for the scene you mention Steve, where they are pursued by a fighter and Connery's character of Indy's father accidentally shoots the tail off their own aircraft, and indeed also the scene where Jones Senior brings one down with his umbrella by scaring birds into the air, causing a bird strike, is a Pilatus P-2, which is actually a genune WW2 aeroplane, but of Swiss origin. It was a trainer despite its fighterish looks, more or less akin to the North American T-6 Texan or Miles M-14 Magister, i.e. a more advanced dual control monoplane type of training aircraft for those who had already probably soloed on a biplane of some sort.

 

The aircraft Indiana Jones and his father are in, is supposed to be representing a Bucker 131 Jungmeister, although it is in fact a Stampe SV.4, as Adam mentioned. The Stampe is basically a Belgian version of the deHavilland Tiger Moth with a different fuel tank arrangement and a tailwheel as opposed to a skid, and is a favourite stand in for many types in action movies, often pretending to be a WW1 two-seater reconnaissance aircraft, as indeed the Tiger Moth has on occasion.

 

With all that said, the Messerschmitt bf-108 Taifun does indeed make a lot of appearances in movies (including some in Indiana Jones movies) where it is invariably standing in as a bf-109, which it superficially resembles in profile, although the game is usually up when you see it in head-on shots, where its small engine and wide cabin betray it for the GA aeroplane it really is.

 

The bf-108 (and indeed the post-war French copy of it, the Nord Pingouin) show up prominently as 'fighters' in the following movies: 633 Squadron, The Longest Day, and Von Ryan's Express, although the bf-108 does manage to appear as itself in at least one war movie, that being The Great Escape, when the characters Hendley (played by James Garner) and Blythe (played by Donald Pleasance) steal one from a Luftwaffe airfield by hand cranking it and attempting to fly it to Switzerland, only to run out of fuel and end up in captivity again after crash landing, or at least briefly anyway, since Blythe gets machine gunned moments after the aircraft comes down.

 

Al

You know your movie trivia as well as your planes i might add Al.The Battle of Britain with Michael Caine, Trevor Howard in Blu-Ray is another movie i enjoy watching.

 

Appreciate it Al, thank you.

 

Adam

Yup, and the good old 1969 BoB movie was good for those interested in the preservation of old aeroplanes too. Lots of due-to-be-scrapped Hurricanes were saved by the production of that movie, and a lot of the Hispano Suiza Ha112 Buchons which stood in as bf109s in that movie were also saved by its production buyers too, as indeed were one or two of the post war Spanish-built He-111s.

 

Sadly, it's not always the case that movies prove to be the saviours of old warplanes, 633 Squadron was particularly guilty of that: Several airworthy deHavilland Mosquitoes were taxied across Woodford Aerodrome at high speed just up the road from me, and had their gear retracted deliberately when doing so in order to make it look like they were belly landing for the purposes of the camera when 633 Squadron was being filmed. If I'd have been older than four years of age at the time, I'd have gone there and bloody well stopped them LOL It makes me cringe just to think about them doing that to such a beautiful aeroplane.

 

There's not a single airworthy Mosquito left in the entire world at the moment, which is a real shame - in fact I saw the last one that was airworthy crash at an airshow at Barton in 1996 when its carburettor choked under neg G, although the good news is that I did hear some time ago that there are apparently three Mossies under restoration to flying condition, so it will apparently fly again at some point, which is nice to know - even Herman Goering admitted the Mossie was a great aeroplane.

 

Al