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Aces High, Movie, 1976 IMDB

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Also known as:

  • Schlacht in den Wolken (Germany)
  • Ases del cielo (Spain)
  • La bataille du ciel (France)
  • Le tigre du ciel (France)
  • La battaglia delle aquile (Italy)
190508Made for Movie Leyland A-Type [*][*]
1904331914 Mors 12/15 CV [*]
1904321913 Newton Bennett 12hp [*][*]
1904351913 Sunbeam 12/16 hp [*][*]
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Sunbar UK

◊ 2008-09-08 11:52

 British WWI fighters...

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German WWI fighters...

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sixcyl FR

◊ 2008-09-08 14:15

 Thumbnails 1,3,4,5,6 ==> look like Royal Aircraft Factory (RAF) S.E.5a, though some details are puzzling me :/
The "pronouced V shape" of the wings, and the wheel support architecture not matching with it.

Thumbnail 2,7 ==> I'd say an Avro 504, but the tail is the type of the Avro 521. The problem is that it had been built only 1 proto of the 521, which had crashed in 1916 :/ Reconstruction?

Thumbnail 10 ==> this monoplane is a Fokker E I or E II of 1915/16

No idea for the plane in Thumbnail 8,9,11,12

Sunbar UK

◊ 2008-09-08 15:31

 IMDb also mentions the SE5 as being the plane used in the movie in the Royal Flying Corps but there are a lot of details that don't match I think.

Angled shape of the wings - should be straight I think as you said sixcyl.
The engine and therefore the propeller is mounted too high.
The external radiator in the movie looked 'false'
Tailplane is too square.

Unless there were variations in design I'm guessing this is a 1920s or 1930s type of biplane that has been modified to look like a WWI fighter? There were at least three examples used in the flying scenes in the movie and I doubt that actual WWI museum exhibits or similar rare planes would be used in the dog-fights? Some crash scenes may have been models but if so they were rather convincing.

Sunbar UK

◊ 2008-09-08 16:02

 The aircraft were supplied by Personal Plane Services Ltd. (credits from the movie).

I have found a reference that at least one 'Stampe' modified to look like a SE5A was used for "Aces High" so that probably applies to the complete squadron. I need to check but the Avro possibly was not used in any flying scenes.

greybear EN

◊ 2008-09-08 23:19

 Definitely a Belgian Stampe - it looks very much like a Tiger Moth. A museum near here has a Stampe and an RAF and I saw both in May this year. The SE5a flew as part of the display.

sixcyl FR

◊ 2008-09-08 23:25

 Thank's for these informations :)

sixcyl FR

◊ 2011-10-09 17:07

 Aircrafts at:
http://www.impdb.org/index.php?title=Aces_High

14stutz US

◊ 2024-06-03 05:45

 The British SE-5s are clearly not real. Note the swept wings with rounded tips. Various internet sources call them modified Stampes, which makes sense. It is one thing to modify the fuselage of an airworthy type, quite another to mess with the wings.
The Stampe is a popular acrobatic ship and there were many around back then, so it is a good choice as the basis for a film aircraft.

Per Impdb, the red two seat German aircraft is a Finnish VL Viima II V1.
I thought it might be a Focke-Wulf Fw 44 Stieglitz, a 1930s design that was used as a trainer during the war.

In the final scene, one of the German aircraft seen as shot down is a WWII-era Bucker Jungmeister.


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A Bull nose Morris also appears in the film.

-- Last edit: 2024-06-03 05:50:13

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