Albatros production line

[+elephant]

I had seen parts of this movie before, but not the whole clip...

The production line from stright planks to complete aircraft.

 

Critical Past clip

 

Many interesting clips there, also Check out this miraculous escape...

 

Cuperly, France, July 19th 1918

Edited October 26, 2011 by elephant

[Hector]

Fascinating clips.It said in the second one that the pilot survived but it also looks like the observer made it as well.I would love to know what miracle was at work that day to spare those two airmen.Thanks for the links elephant.

 

Hector.

[+elephant]

The flat spinning must have prevented the speed build up and was the main factor that saved the crew...

As for the first clip, it is said that it was from 1918, but actually, from the planes seen worked on,

must be from 1916.

 

Check out this one too from 1918:

 

94th Aero

 

At 5:35 a Spad 13 firing...

Edited October 26, 2011 by elephant

[jwrich]

Very interesting clips, lots of history. Thanks for posting them.

 

 

 

 

Rich

 

 

[Burning Beard]

Did you notice the gun locations on that N28. The shelf was empty and the two guns were in either side of the windscreen.

 

Beard

[Mike Dora]

The German 2-seater crash sequence is amazing. Had to smile though at seeing a Poilu strolling unconcernedly past the smashed-up wreck with a cigarette in his mouth!

[tranquillo]

Thanks for posting those, Elephant.

Yes indeed, a flat spin will slow descent considerably. Still damn lucky to escape that though.

[Hasse Wind]

Great stuff, thanks for sharing.

[Olham]

Great find, elephant - been watching since 45 min.!

[UK_Widowmaker]

Great stuff! A timely reminder of the unsung heroes, both in Wartime and Peacetime...those lovely creatures....Women

[33LIMA]

Looks like both crew members got away with it in that plane (LVG CVI?). Of the two guys sitting down, the one seen first has a head swathed in bandages, the other one does not. A long, scary ride down!

[Olham]

I knew a guy who slipped off a tennis tent during repair works.

He fell on his bum from only 6 Meter (15 feet?) - several of his spine vertebras were partly crushed;

he is sitting in a wheel chair now.

 

But then they shot less frames per second back then, which makes everything appear faster.

Perhaps the fall down was gentler than it looks?

[JFM]

I don't know; that guy they carried away didn't look to be in too good condition. Better than dead, for sure, though.

 

Had a friend who got his plane into a flat spin. Rode it down from 3,000 feet until terrain impact. He lived, but his spinal column was compressed by the impact and he was left in wheelchair. One wonders if these guys suffered similar injuries.

[Hector]

The two airmen are seen sitting upright and moving their upper bodies slightly so i would imagine there were no serious spinal injuries.The one with the bandaged head may have broken a leg/s and that is possibly why he's carted off on a stretcher.I broke my own back in three places and one of those was a crushed vertebra and no way could i sit upright as the pain was horrific.

Having said that,they also found an old fracture and i remembered being hurt 20 yrs previous.I also remembered that after a few days i was ordered to start traing again and it was absolute agony until eventually the pain eased.The fracture was never spotted on ordinary xrays and it was only seen 20yrs later when i had MRI and Catscans after my accident.

 

Hector

[Olham]

Hey, the old war wounds! When I was a 7 year old boy, I climbed a pear tree in an old garden.

I was just swinging my leg over another branch and was hanging headover - when the branch

broke off. I hit the ground head first, felt a nasty pain in the neck, and was quite dizzy for some

time. Never thought of it again, until now, at an age of over 50, a docor found, that I had an old

neck injury. Since two or three years, I sometimes get a horrible "Crack!", when I turn my head.

 

I guess, regular training in a fitness studio would be good.

[Olham]

British Cavallery, and a Mark I tank coming back from battle:

 

http://www.criticalpast.com/video/65675024079_Battle-of-Arras_Leicester-fusiliers_Cavalry-moves_Mark-I-tank-move-downhill