Part 1 of "Checkertails" Documentary now available by torrent

[Mysticpuma]

Hi guys. Thanks for the feedback. Alpha, I have considered a few projects on the Luftwaffe and of particular interest has been the career during the war of Heinz Bar. Maybe after the dust has settled in 2012 with the release of Part 2 of 'Checkertails' I could reconsider it. Just for now....... I'm sipping a single malt and waiting to hear whether the last 3-years have been worth-while for you eager downloaders? Cheers, MP

[KG26_Alpha]

Originally Posted by Mysticpuma

Hi guys. Thanks for the feedback. Alpha, I have considered a few projects on the Luftwaffe and of particular interest has been the career during the war of Heinz Bar. Maybe after the dust has settled in 2012 with the release of Part 2 of 'Checkertails' I could reconsider it. Just for now....... I'm sipping a single malt and waiting to hear whether the last 3-years have been worth-while for you eager downloaders? Cheers, MP

Ok

Very interesting career to try to follow

IIRC Eric Brown got to fly the same aircraft type Heinz Bar flat spun to his death in during testing.
Cant remember the actual aircraft right now but his story would be very interesting especially the early years.

[baronWastelan]

Most interesting part, as it relates to Il-2:

Arthur Fiedler: "[Hercy] pulled that stick back and kicked the rudder as hard as I could".

I also did this same thing with a 109G-6 shooting at me in the Checkertails P-40 campaign and it worked for me too! It blew my mind to hear this described by an actual P-40 pilot less than a month after I tried it in Il-2.

[Tacoma74]

You do great work Mysticpuma!! Ill be sure to seed this for quite some time

[Mysticpuma]

Thanks chaps, your comments are very much appreciated.

Part 2 will have more talking heads as I want to use up some of the interview footage that has never been seen. I also have about 20-30 minutes of Checkertail P-51 footage (real archive footage, again never-seen before) to incorporate.

It will take a while....but I can then concentrate on other subjects. I really want to visit the areas of Norfolk where many 8th AF Bomb Groups were stationed and interview people there who remember these huge Armadas taking off, as-well as visit their museums and airfields (or what now sits on them).

Oh to be young again!

Cheers, Neil

[Troll2k]

Mysticpuma,the Ken Burns of IL2.

[T}{OR]

Going to copy my post over from BFs:

Watched and had a chat with Guse afterwards.

Here are my first impressions, of what I said to him as well, trying not to spoil the fun of watching for others:

• very nicely put together
• like reading a good book
• awesome amount of never before seen material
• plenty of interesting little stories and details
• brings closer on how it must have felt being there
• it is a good thing you split it up into two parts

Highly recommended watching.

Originally Posted by Troll2k

Mysticpuma,the Ken Burns of IL2.

lol, I noticed that too. Lots of videos seem to utilize this technique nowadays.

[kimosabi]

This is just excellent stuff. Thanks MP!

[VO101_Sanyo]

Still don't have time to watch it, but already uploaded 4 times.

[Trumper]

Superb.Seeding here as well.It is surprisingly hard at times to see if the b/w gun cam shots are real or ingame.
If you do have any plans for future projects i would act sooner getting interviews rather than later as the veterans are getting fewer and fewer.
Fantastic work