Dark Blue World

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Dark Blue World is a nice movie, and I enjoyed it. There are some great aerial scenes including cut-outs from the '69 Battle of Britain and RC models, improved by computer generated graphics; I personally find that the love story cripples a little the aviation plot, and viceversa. I didn't have that disturbing feeling of continuous cross-interference with other great movies such as Midway or the Longest Day.

On the technical side, the Messerschmitt used for the film (and cloned with CGI afaik) is a Bouchon, while in the BoB scenes some of the Spits appear as later series than the ones used in BoB, if I'm right.

A curiosity: one of the 10 movie's pilots was the late Ray Hanna, the first leader of the UK display team "the Red Arrows", who was involved in many WWII and WWI movies such as Flyboys, Empire of the Sun, Memphis Belle - as 109 pilot, the mini-serie Piece of Cake etc., and whose son Mark died in the crash of a Buchon in Spain. They founded and owned the Old Flying Machine Company.

Regards,
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