Exactly today he died 100 years ago in 1917, today is my birthday; and I turned 17. Nothing better than to say I'm glad to have my birthday the day and a century later one of the best, and first aces ever in history falls as a true pilot of WW1. In a brave dogfight not many, or any would have done. Much respect and love for Werner Voss, and the skies.🛩
In 1962 I wrote a paper for my high school history class about this event and also provided models of the SE-5a and Fokker Dr1. This animation is incredible, Terrific job.
7 to 1 against him and he managed 10 minutes before succumbing to the overwhelming odds. Regardless of which side he was on, one must totally respect that amount of courage and tenacity. True nerves of steel, to the very end.
He was also flying a plane of unprecedented maneuverability, able to hang from its prop, stall turn, and tumble with far more agility than the SE5s. In the hands of a pilot of Voss's skill, it must have been like trying to swat a fly out of mid-air.
Cooter McGuffin Aye. But....we live in hope. Progress for humankind comes from finally breaking the vicious repetitive circle of war.....in which there are never any true winners......just generations of traumatised losers on both sides.
Being a lifelong aviation buff and historian, I congratulate you sirgisbod on creating the single best video recounting an actual and well-documented dogfight I have ever had the pleasure of watching. It is both beautiful and tragic. A wonderful testament to whom I believe was the single greatest pilot in WW I. Thanks for sharing.
Flying these mechanized kites took courage, nerves of steel, and a recklessness not seen today. These pilots on both sides have to be admired and respected for what they did.
Did voss give up? No he died like a warrior fighting till the bitter end if I was in a fight like that in I could only hope to do what he did. Voss died with honor and I respect that
This was well choreographed and animated and yes it literally brought tears. This was indeed a courageous and magnificent opponent may the Lord have rested Werner Voss.
The most important rule for a pilot (and not only. Ever in life) is "when you think you can't made it trough, run away. You ll fight another day" . The red baron and boelke too knew that, they wrote that too. Werner knew it, but this time he didn't or he couldn't escape. (if you look the deaths of those aces, especially the red baron one, you will notice that day they break off all their own fight rules.)
it might be on you tube and i will look for it, but i remember seeing a documentary about this and one of the pilots involved in the dog fight who was in tears spoke about how great Voss was in the dog fight. Brought me to tears too. Reminded me of a documentary about the Royal Oak which was torpedoed by a German U boat. Two of the German crew spoke (again in tears) about the way the crew on the Royal Oak showed such calm and dignity as their ship was burning and sinking. Bloody war eh?
May have been Arthur Rhys-Davids. He wrote a detailed article in his diary about the fight. One of which about Voss “If only I could have brought him down alive..”
Re the Royal Oak documentary: I find it hard to believe that account from the German sailors. Once U-47 had fired its torpedos and confirmed the hits, the captain's only sensible option was to withdraw - he had no intention of hanging around admiring the conduct of the crew of the sinking ship. The sort of sight-seeing could have got him killed.
In my humble opinion i think, based on what i read about Voss that he was actually a better aerobatic pilot than Von Richthofen. However, i think his ego got the best of him, and it cost him. He was an amazing pilot, and it is if the DR 1 was a part of him, in the way he handled his machine. Although, I thonk The Red Baron himself was a great pilot, he seemed more cautious, whete as Voss enjoyed the challenge of unequal odds.
Two things ... First, Congratulations for this magnificent video! ... and second you don't have to worry about for such comments, don't let them discourages you ... ¡ Excellent work !
Werner vos was fighting againts 6 britisch planes and all 6 were damaged and all returned to base and before he going fight the 6 planes he shoot 2 planes down the battle during 10 minutes and he was 20 years old when he died.
I have always loved biplanes. My favorite aircraft. I got to fly in one once. Like floating in the clouds. The pilot took us along a river then landed it on a sandbar not a 100 yards long. Sat for awhile and then took off. I’ve never since flown except for commercial. My Harley is my biplane now. And here in the Ozarks I still go to the river. Thank you for this wonderful video. Music score was perfect. And the salute to the aviators was superb. God Bless...
I just watched the movie "The Red Baron" and was very disappointed that this battle (and others) are not shown! Just awesome to see it here. Wonderful work - much better than the movie!
One minor criticism. Voss didn't fly a DR.1 as depicted, but a Fokker F1, which was the first production model of the triplane. It didn't have the skids under the wings.
I've held the moniker "KmVoss" since about 1998 or 1999. When I was a child, hooked to ww1 dogfight simulators I always imagined I was him. I'm still waiting for Hollywood or really anyone to make an accurate take on these dogfighters. So much history passed over for the dreck that permeates our theatres. So sad.
excellent video,those planes sure could do some incredible maneuvering and the guys that flew them had balls of steel,thank you for honoring their memory.
"Your job is not to die for your country... but to assist the enemy in dying for his." Voss forgot that. Instead he should, when outnumbered, dove for those clouds or out climbed them.
I would like to say that this video was very well done. A story effectively told, one hundred years after the incident with what appears to be matter of fact reporting based on what is known. The game footage was carefully staged, compiled and edited. Thank you for creating it.
Amazing movie. The soundtrack and the cinematics gave me goospimples. The bravery of those men flying those machines will never be seen again. It truly was the rise of flight.
Whoever doesn't respect this man must be out of their mind. He lasted very long on his own against 7 other enemy planes. Bravest German pilot in history apart from Richtofen.
Although Voss is my favorite simply due to his flare & courage...after doing a fair amount of research, Earnst Udet stands out in three VERY significant ways - 1. of course being that he actually survived the entire war from beginning to end, 2. that he had what, the 4th highest kill total of the war(?) but most spectacularly, 3. The VAST majority of his kills were enemy fighters...NOT bombers, like ALL of the other leading aces. Interesting, eh? BEAUTIFUL video btw!!!!!!! Thankyou
You missed the "disconcertingly quick" half spin turn which Voss performed in order to return fire when B-flight dove into the frey. Voss could never ever hope to outclimb a pack of SE5a`s surrounding him from all angles, one element of B-flight even stayed above when the rest engaged, leaving Voss`s so called "easy escape" a complete impossibility.
Have you played Rise of Flight? ;) Also, B-flight was diving on him, he could have been climbing a little before seeing the oncoming danger, just enough to have gravity help him perform the half-flat spin, but still look like he was flying level to his attackers.
You need to be aware of the elements and manipulate the weight balance, but it can be done in Rise of Flight, including high angle sideslips to return fire as well (also missing here), if you can`t do it you have to try harder.
Just keeping those crates airborne was a challenge under normal flight conditions. Then to control under battle circumstances. Super human. To struggle with ones last ounce of courage. Their valiant steeds torn to pieces still attempting to claw for airspeed. Distinguished Flying Cross with oak leaves and diamonds.
Nice replay of the events! Done a lot of research regarding Herr Werner Voss, a former enlisted who later became a Commissioned Officer, a Pilot and One of the Top WWI Aces!
@Falcon988 ...well, the patch for CFS3 3.1a is not readily available at the MS site linked on your website. is there another avenue? let me know, thanks =)
Today 23/09/2017;on 18:00 PM the Jasta 10's formal officer Werner Voss is taking off to his fate, and in an unfair fight against 7 Se5 vehicles, he will fall from the now sacred skies of Frezemberg, in the flaming Flanders, under the fire of the british ace Rhys-Davids.We are all reunited here to remember another victim of a pointless war,and to remember the sorrow inside the James Mc Cudden's words.
@@alanung He came up behind six Avengers, which was a type unknown to him, thinking he was going to nail a Hellcat or two. The Avenger gunners, saw him creeping up,alone, so they manned the belly guns and riddled his aircraft. He limped home with eye damage and a bullet-riddled Zero and barely made it.
Was you planning on making some more videos sirgisbod? Yours are the best that I've seen. I wished you'd do one of William Barker's famous battle, of course the Snipe is not yet out but the Camel is still the closest to looking like it..
I'm inclined to think that Voss had a woozy 'hang-over-head' that morning, which can lead us to slightly reckless or overconfident decisions because we're just "feelin' so damned good" and get caught up in the moment - alcohol fueled optimism can unravel a great many things ;). Beautiful video..thankyou
Wasn't this the dogfight that was on History Channel's Dogfights? I remember seeing an episode where they talked about the first dogfighters and I think this was the first one they talked about in that episode.
Wrong serial # for that triplane - it was a prototype F 1 103/17 . Fuselage cross located too far aft . Voss painted a face on the front of the cowling
Yeah right, it was one of, I think, 4 F1 prototypes. Richthofen got one and Voss got one. I think one went to Austria and the other one was kept at the factory. In a photo of Voss in F1 103 you see it's tails leading edges were curved unlike the triangular tail of a DR l. The F1's were painted with blue dope. Richthofen called it his blue plane. Voss died in his. Richthofen had given his own F1 to another close friend Kurk Wolff who also died in it. And from memory Richthofen's brother Lothar had lost a lower wing from his DR1. In the end Richthofen was desperate to get the D VII's "even without compressors" (super charges) and get rid of the Triplanes.
Incredible aerial acrobatics. The young man hard nerves of steel and obviously was a born fighter pilot. One small suggestion: could you delay the narratives to allow more time to read them? Thank you, and thank you for this history lesson. David
@Falcon988 ...sorry to bug ya', found the 3.1 patch and the 3.1a patch... did a fresh install of CFS3, ran it once, went to install the 3.1 patch, halfway through it said "old file not found...blah blah blah...", and basically stopped. ever hear of this? ideas? tried to email you through your youtube account but it's locked. thanks for any input
He could not escape, once he joined the fight the only advantage he had was climb rate and turning. If he tried to run the SE5s would run him down with ease. He had to fight once he started and he knew it.
@DrSebby - THANKYOU soooooo much Falcon! I shall re-try using your simplified description of the process, and if I still run into problems I shall find you on Flander's Fields for sure! =) I dearly miss my days soaring over the front in RB3D...the smell of benzine in the air, wood frames creaking...Ahh how I long for it once again!
Voss has always been a hero of mine; great skill, great courage. But that said, you don't need to be a rocket scientist to work out how that particular fight was going to end. If Voss had the option to run he should have taken it. However, despite what is said in the video, I very much doubt that Voss had any option other than to fight. He wasn't a fool, he would have known it was only a matter of time before one or other of the SE's got him. He wasn't suicidal, just fighting for his life.
The difference in the Baron and Voss is stark! The Baron was an excelleant teacher given he had raw talent to work with. He excelled in leadership and administrations. He was an average akilled pilot. Like a symphonic leader following the set pattern of the event. Voss was so skilled and FAST in reactions that he was in my mind the greatest pilot of the war. He was like a talented jazz player jammin with the guys! He was in his total element in his last fight. Voss was a horrible paper chaser and a worse instructor. He was an all pilot. If the Baron had been involved in that last fight he would have been killed very quickly! He just wasnt an all pilot! Fyi of the 7 men in the allied fight, 3 were dead in a few months!
The best pilot of the war would have known better than to take on so many opponents alone, and neither Boelke nor von Richthofen could be expected to do so. Voss was overconfident, and that led to his death.
@sirgisbod I just did a slip turn (a turn made with rudder, without banking at all) yesterday in a radio-controlled model Su-26. Granted, that's not at all a Great War fighter, and also the aerodynamics of flight don't scale down very precisely, but a slip turn is aerodynamically possible for at least some aircraft.
@Falcon988 ....I've actually tried to get it...install it & all that - in the end it always ends up "missing" some file or another - perhaps due to my using a bootlegged copy of MScfsim(?) seems like it shouldn't matter, but it's been a bit frustrating & time consuming =( ...it's a rather difficult thing finding a copy of MSCFS...& so easy to bootleg it so.....
Exactly today he died 100 years ago in 1917, today is my birthday; and I turned 17. Nothing better than to say I'm glad to have my birthday the day and a century later one of the best, and first aces ever in history falls as a true pilot of WW1. In a brave dogfight not many, or any would have done. Much respect and love for Werner Voss, and the skies.🛩
Reincarnation???
the hell is that emoji
@@Triplane1234🛩️
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In 1962 I wrote a paper for my high school history class about this event and also provided models of the SE-5a and Fokker Dr1. This animation is incredible, Terrific job.
"If Only I Could Have Brought Him Down Alive"......... Breaks My Heart.
7 to 1 against him and he managed 10 minutes before succumbing to the overwhelming odds. Regardless of which side he was on, one must totally respect that amount of courage and tenacity. True nerves of steel, to the very end.
Voss was one of a kind-great respect to him!
7 to 1 and even then it was a lucky shot that first got to him.
He was also flying a plane of unprecedented maneuverability, able to hang from its prop, stall turn, and tumble with far more agility than the SE5s. In the hands of a pilot of Voss's skill, it must have been like trying to swat a fly out of mid-air.
Agreed.
He at least got 20 holes in each of those SE5's
Beautifully illustrated. Young boys in delicate machines, suffering such horrible, pointless deaths from such terrible heights.
Man this poor guy, only 20 years old... the true enemy is war itself
yeah same to richthofen, only 25 when he was shot and killed in 1918
Albert Ball-another 20 year old who was a very admirable young man. And for a time, the leading British Empire Ace.
@AwakeAmericanow. Sadly, this is not what the long history of humankind has been able to do.
Cooter McGuffin Aye. But....we live in hope. Progress for humankind comes from finally breaking the vicious repetitive circle of war.....in which there are never any true winners......just generations of traumatised losers on both sides.
@@vilstef6988 Voss, Guynemer, Ball - probably the three best dogfighters of the war.
Being a lifelong aviation buff and historian, I congratulate you sirgisbod on creating the single best video recounting an actual and well-documented dogfight I have ever had the pleasure of watching.
It is both beautiful and tragic.
A wonderful testament to whom I believe was the single greatest pilot in WW I.
Thanks for sharing.
Wow
Powerful
Flying these mechanized kites took courage, nerves of steel, and a recklessness not seen today. These pilots on both sides have to be admired and respected for what they did.
Rest well, Werner Voss. Rest well.
Did voss give up? No he died like a warrior fighting till the bitter end if I was in a fight like that in I could only hope to do what he did. Voss died with honor and I respect that
Matthew Caughey You can have everything in this world, but you can not have a Voss.
he died in honor and recd the respect from his enemy.A true warrior
This was well choreographed and animated and yes it literally brought tears. This was indeed a courageous and magnificent opponent may the Lord have rested Werner Voss.
It is absolutely marvellous, yes, though it isn't an animation. It is called "Rise of Flight".
There's a special place for Germanic heroes who fell in battle like Voss - it's called Valhalla, the Hall of Odin.
The most important rule for a pilot (and not only. Ever in life) is "when you think you can't made it trough, run away. You ll fight another day" . The red baron and boelke too knew that, they wrote that too. Werner knew it, but this time he didn't or he couldn't escape. (if you look the deaths of those aces, especially the red baron one, you will notice that day they break off all their own fight rules.)
He could escape, he didn't want to
As a man, this was difficult to hold back tears on.
Calm down just video game
There's something both somber and beautiful about the admiration and respect those pilots had for each other.
The music captured the sentiments you perceived well, I think.
These guys are long dead lol
@@-Alexander2001MB trust me they’ll be remembered
it might be on you tube and i will look for it, but i remember seeing a documentary about this and one of the pilots involved in the dog fight who was in tears spoke about how great Voss was in the dog fight. Brought me to tears too. Reminded me of a documentary about the Royal Oak which was torpedoed by a German U boat. Two of the German crew spoke (again in tears) about the way the crew on the Royal Oak showed such calm and dignity as their ship was burning and sinking. Bloody war eh?
+john french You better find it.
May have been Arthur Rhys-Davids.
He wrote a detailed article in his diary about the fight. One of which about Voss
“If only I could have brought him down alive..”
Re the Royal Oak documentary: I find it hard to believe that account from the German sailors. Once U-47 had fired its torpedos and confirmed the hits, the captain's only sensible option was to withdraw - he had no intention of hanging around admiring the conduct of the crew of the sinking ship. The sort of sight-seeing could have got him killed.
@@MarsFKA I can only report what I saw in the documentary. It was very moving.
This is just fantastic and I can tell you put a lot of work into it. Werner Voss is my favorite WWI pilot - loved this video. Thanks so much.
Its like driving a rickety, home made go-kart in the sky, only less substantial. Those boy had balls of steel...
In my humble opinion i think, based on what i read about Voss that he was actually a better aerobatic pilot than Von Richthofen. However, i think his ego got the best of him, and it cost him. He was an amazing pilot, and it is if the DR 1 was a part of him, in the way he handled his machine. Although, I thonk The Red Baron himself was a great pilot, he seemed more cautious, whete as Voss enjoyed the challenge of unequal odds.
Voss was also said to have been kind of drunk or had a hangover from a party the night before, which is why he probably wasn't at his best.
Thank you very much for making this. Very high quality, doing justice to all the combatants, it is as faithful a representation as we can hope to see.
Brilliant video. The gallantry among these pilots is second to none.
Two things ... First, Congratulations for this magnificent video! ... and second you don't have to worry about for such comments, don't let them discourages you ...
¡ Excellent work !
I miss the painted "face" on the front of the engine cowling of Voss' Fokker F.1 103/17.
Werner vos was fighting againts 6 britisch planes and all 6 were damaged and all returned to base and before he going fight the 6 planes he shoot 2 planes down the battle during 10 minutes and he was 20 years old when he died.
Well Buts its a cool video
Sander Eduard van Houdt
sander van houdt actually it was 7
@@ded3944 You a grammar nazi?
Awesome collection of video's - thank you for taking the time to put them together for our enjoyment.
Absolutely captivating, one of the best historical recreations I've ever seen done with a flight sim, a truely wonderfiul effort, thank you!
I have always loved biplanes. My favorite aircraft. I got to fly in one once. Like floating in the clouds. The pilot took us along a river then landed it on a sandbar not a 100 yards long. Sat for awhile and then took off. I’ve never since flown except for commercial. My Harley is my biplane now. And here in the Ozarks I still go to the river. Thank you for this wonderful video. Music score was perfect. And the salute to the aviators was superb. God Bless...
Beautiful vid man! Really good quality
Great film, really well put together. Thank you.
I just watched the movie "The Red Baron" and was very disappointed that this battle (and others) are not shown! Just awesome to see it here. Wonderful work - much better than the movie!
Outstanding Video, i am related to Rhys-Davids he was a fine man!!!! and wished they could have captured "Voss" alive!!
wished they could have captured "Voss" alive!! ????????????????????
Frederick I named my eldest son Rhys partly in memory of Alfred Rhys Davids
Unfortunately I'm pretty sure Rhys-David's only had a month to live after that epic Dogfight
Rhys-David a fine man?? He shoot over a dead man.
@Some Wannabe TH-camr No. I was repeating the strange sentence of Meccia. Voss is my hero even more than Richthofen.
Watching this in early 2017. He was my age.
That wad wonderful. Thankyou for making this.
One minor criticism. Voss didn't fly a DR.1 as depicted, but a Fokker F1, which was the first production model of the triplane. It didn't have the skids under the wings.
I've held the moniker "KmVoss" since about 1998 or 1999. When I was a child, hooked to ww1 dogfight simulators I always imagined I was him. I'm still waiting for Hollywood or really anyone to make an accurate take on these dogfighters. So much history passed over for the dreck that permeates our theatres. So sad.
kmvoss maybe not hollywood, but the makers of this flight sim intend to remake this game for current technology, it might be worth while
kmvoss search for il-2 flying circus
kmvoss agreed. Hollywood doesn't give these warriors true respect, but reduces them to mere caricatures.
Really great video. So much emotion!
excellent video,those planes sure could do some incredible maneuvering and the guys that flew them had balls of steel,thank you for honoring their memory.
Beautiful tribute to this pilot. I'm in awe of your skills in portrayal of the story.
"Your job is not to die for your country... but to assist the enemy in dying for his." Voss forgot that. Instead he should, when outnumbered, dove for those clouds or out climbed them.
A most excellent production, Thx.
"There are old pilots and there are bold pilots, but there are no old, bold pilots".
~ E. Hamilton Lee (1949)
I would like to say that this video was very well done. A story effectively told, one hundred years after the incident with what appears to be matter of fact reporting based on what is known. The game footage was carefully staged, compiled and edited. Thank you for creating it.
thank you very much! I was very impressed by the quality of the reenactment. I think Voss himself would be proud.
his fight was so intense they couldnt even fully recreate it in the game😂
Thank you for posting this.
This is very well done and I really appreciated the bird's eye view into this famous fight.
Amazing movie. The soundtrack and the cinematics gave me goospimples. The bravery of those men flying those machines will never be seen again. It truly was the rise of flight.
Oh my god, the end smacked me in the face since I'm 20. Wow.
Whoever doesn't respect this man must be out of their mind. He lasted very long on his own against 7 other enemy planes. Bravest German pilot in history apart from Richtofen.
Although Voss is my favorite simply due to his flare & courage...after doing a fair amount of research, Earnst Udet stands out in three VERY significant ways - 1. of course being that he actually survived the entire war from beginning to end, 2. that he had what, the 4th highest kill total of the war(?) but most spectacularly, 3. The VAST majority of his kills were enemy fighters...NOT bombers, like ALL of the other leading aces. Interesting, eh? BEAUTIFUL video btw!!!!!!! Thankyou
Sebastian Kinse. Isn't shooting down bombers your job a a fighter pilot?
As the last man standing, I give him 1st prize.
Werner was one of the best, thanks for sharing.
Thanks for doing this about my great uncle
You missed the "disconcertingly quick" half spin turn which Voss performed in order to return fire when B-flight dove into the frey.
Voss could never ever hope to outclimb a pack of SE5a`s surrounding him from all angles, one element of B-flight even stayed above when the rest engaged, leaving Voss`s so called "easy escape" a complete impossibility.
half spin is impossible on just about all simulations that the Dr1 is present in.
Have you played Rise of Flight? ;)
Also, B-flight was diving on him, he could have been climbing a little before seeing the oncoming danger, just enough to have gravity help him perform the half-flat spin, but still look like he was flying level to his attackers.
Just apply hard left/right rudder and there you go, flat half spin
Stephen Webber Not on any simulation I've played, including Rise of Flight.
You need to be aware of the elements and manipulate the weight balance, but it can be done in Rise of Flight, including high angle sideslips to return fire as well (also missing here), if you can`t do it you have to try harder.
what is the music called?
Incredible flying by Voss. The pilots of this era are amazing, nice vid! Rise of Flight is a fabulous simulator, really challenging.
Great movie...thanks you for your efforts.
Just keeping those crates airborne was a challenge under normal flight conditions.
Then to control under battle circumstances. Super human.
To struggle with ones last ounce of courage. Their valiant steeds torn to pieces still attempting to claw for airspeed.
Distinguished Flying Cross with oak leaves and diamonds.
this movie looks great!!! Thanks to the people who made it! Great music, storyline. commentaries...
Nice replay of the events! Done a lot of research regarding Herr Werner Voss, a former enlisted who later became a Commissioned Officer, a Pilot and One of the Top WWI Aces!
Great presentation! Thanks!
I have read all pilots said it was the greatest feat of flying they ever saw with manoeuvres none of them had ever witnessed.
Man I remember watching these a lot, I think it’s been almost 5 years since I watched these
@Falcon988 ...well, the patch for CFS3 3.1a is not readily available at the MS site linked on your website. is there another avenue? let me know, thanks =)
Great vid, and very nice telling of the story. Thank you.
Hi, is here anybody, who knows how the composition in 4:42 is called? Thanksssss!
Your legacy will always be remembered, like every who lost his life in that war.
Amazing video, beautiful music and great info about the fight. I hate war of any kind but I admire bravery and the flying machines of the time.
a top notch short film. excelent indeed.
Today 23/09/2017;on 18:00 PM the Jasta 10's formal officer Werner Voss is taking off to his fate, and in an unfair fight against 7 Se5 vehicles, he will fall from the now sacred skies of Frezemberg, in the flaming Flanders, under the fire of the british ace Rhys-Davids.We are all reunited here to remember another victim of a pointless war,and to remember the
sorrow inside the James Mc Cudden's words.
What is the music that begins with the flight of Albatros spotting the Spads?
I would like to see the time Sakai outflew 15 Hellcats and wasn't hit by a single bullet!
But when he lined up behind a couple of SBD-3 Dauntless dive bombers, he got hit by a hail of bullets. I guess he thought they were easy kill...
@@alanung He came up behind six Avengers, which was a type unknown to him, thinking he was going to nail a Hellcat or two. The Avenger gunners, saw him creeping up,alone, so they manned the belly guns and riddled his aircraft. He limped home with eye damage and a bullet-riddled Zero and barely made it.
Was you planning on making some more videos sirgisbod? Yours are the best that I've seen. I wished you'd do one of William Barker's famous battle, of course the Snipe is not yet out but the Camel is still the closest to looking like it..
I'm inclined to think that Voss had a woozy 'hang-over-head' that morning, which can lead us to slightly reckless or overconfident decisions because we're just "feelin' so damned good" and get caught up in the moment - alcohol fueled optimism can unravel a great many things ;).
Beautiful video..thankyou
what is this song?
Great video, thank you for making and sharing it.
Great job! Thanks!
Wasn't this the dogfight that was on History Channel's Dogfights? I remember seeing an episode where they talked about the first dogfighters and I think this was the first one they talked about in that episode.
Thanks alot, sirgisbod, for this wonderful film!
Which music did you use?
Wrong serial # for that triplane - it was a prototype F 1 103/17 . Fuselage cross located too far aft . Voss painted a face on the front of the cowling
Yeah right, it was one of, I think, 4 F1 prototypes.
Richthofen got one and Voss got one. I think one went to Austria and the other one was kept at the factory.
In a photo of Voss in F1 103 you see it's tails leading edges were curved unlike the triangular tail of a DR l.
The F1's were painted with blue dope. Richthofen called it his blue plane. Voss died in his. Richthofen had given his own F1 to another close friend Kurk Wolff who also died in it. And from memory Richthofen's brother Lothar had lost a lower wing from his DR1.
In the end Richthofen was desperate to get the D VII's "even without compressors" (super charges) and get rid of the Triplanes.
Could you leave the text up for a little longer time..??
this was like a movie good job
What was the music for this video
Incredible aerial acrobatics. The young man hard nerves of steel and obviously was a born fighter pilot. One small suggestion: could you delay the narratives to allow more time to read them? Thank you, and thank you for this history lesson. David
Sirgisbod which movie maker did you use?
Great video and very informative. Thank you
Great video, no bias. Shows that both sides had brave men.
@Falcon988 ...sorry to bug ya', found the 3.1 patch and the 3.1a patch...
did a fresh install of CFS3, ran it once, went to install the 3.1 patch, halfway through it said "old file not found...blah blah blah...", and basically stopped.
ever hear of this? ideas? tried to email you through your youtube account but it's locked.
thanks for any input
Thank You for posting this. The History Channel in the U.S. did a bit on this fight, but it wasn't nearly as good or thorough.
He could not escape, once he joined the fight the only advantage he had was climb rate and turning. If he tried to run the SE5s would run him down with ease. He had to fight once he started and he knew it.
Very good, except most of the captions go by to quickly.
Indeed an extremely well made video ! Professional / art. Congrats & keep up the good work. G
@DrSebby - THANKYOU soooooo much Falcon! I shall re-try using your simplified description of the process, and if I still run into problems I shall find you on Flander's Fields for sure! =) I dearly miss my days soaring over the front in RB3D...the smell of benzine in the air, wood frames creaking...Ahh how I long for it once again!
Very nice and editted video. True hero
Grate video. Yes, War Is Hell.
I think I have that sim. What file do I need to record the sequences?
Voss has always been a hero of mine; great skill, great courage. But that said, you don't need to be a rocket scientist to work out how that particular fight was going to end. If Voss had the option to run he should have taken it. However, despite what is said in the video, I very much doubt that Voss had any option other than to fight. He wasn't a fool, he would have known it was only a matter of time before one or other of the SE's got him. He wasn't suicidal, just fighting for his life.
The difference in the Baron and Voss is stark! The Baron was an excelleant teacher given he had raw talent to work with. He excelled in leadership and administrations. He was an average akilled pilot. Like a symphonic leader following the set pattern of the event.
Voss was so skilled and FAST in reactions that he was in my mind the greatest pilot of the war. He was like a talented jazz player jammin with the guys! He was in his total element in his last fight. Voss was a horrible paper chaser and a worse instructor. He was an all pilot.
If the Baron had been involved in that last fight he would have been killed very quickly! He just wasnt an all pilot!
Fyi of the 7 men in the allied fight, 3 were dead in a few months!
The best pilot of the war would have known better than to take on so many opponents alone, and neither Boelke nor von Richthofen could be expected to do so. Voss was overconfident, and that led to his death.
@sirgisbod I just did a slip turn (a turn made with rudder, without banking at all) yesterday in a radio-controlled model Su-26. Granted, that's not at all a Great War fighter, and also the aerodynamics of flight don't scale down very precisely, but a slip turn is aerodynamically possible for at least some aircraft.
@Falcon988 ....I've actually tried to get it...install it & all that - in the end it always ends up "missing" some file or another - perhaps due to my using a bootlegged copy of MScfsim(?) seems like it shouldn't matter, but it's been a bit frustrating & time consuming =( ...it's a rather difficult thing finding a copy of MSCFS...& so easy to bootleg it so.....
do i need a joystick to play this? can i use keyboard and mouse?
GREAT video! VERY well-done! ✨👏🏼😎✨