Flyboys Movie
Sat Aug 12, 2006 2:40 pm
Sat Aug 12, 2006 3:35 pm
There's a sneak preview in Connecticut at the Warner Theater in Torrington on August 26th. Tickets are still available if anybody lives near by. You can get them by calling The Warner Box Office at: 860-489-7180
Or try: www.warnertheater.org
I'll be there with a large cadre of propllerheads!
Jerry
Or try: www.warnertheater.org
I'll be there with a large cadre of propllerheads!
Jerry
flyboys
Sat Aug 12, 2006 3:47 pm
They had a big display at oshkosh with a Fokker Tri-Plane replica, didn't stop by though
Air and Space Magazine
Sat Aug 12, 2006 4:18 pm
There was an article about this movie and its aircraft in Air and Space Magazine a month or so ago. Looks like I'll have to go see it.
Sat Aug 12, 2006 4:59 pm
I've already prepped my wife for this one....
Sat Aug 12, 2006 7:37 pm
Eh, saving my money for Rocky 6!
(only joking, please dont kill me. Hehe whats with the pitch fork?)
(only joking, please dont kill me. Hehe whats with the pitch fork?)
Sat Aug 12, 2006 8:56 pm
I saw the trailer in the theater today. It looks good.
Tue Aug 15, 2006 9:29 am
Looks great!
Question: Were there really black pilots that fought in WWI or is this just a wishful rewrite of history?
Question: Were there really black pilots that fought in WWI or is this just a wishful rewrite of history?
Tue Aug 15, 2006 11:23 am
It isn't a re-write of history, Eugene Bullard, America's First Black Military Aviator, flew Spads for France During World War I. The story and character in the film may be fictional (I haven't seen it yet) but Black Aviators did fly for France in WWI.
Check the link below for more on Bullard.
Blue skies,
Jerry
http://www.aaregistry.com/african_ameri ... y_aviation
Check the link below for more on Bullard.
Blue skies,
Jerry
http://www.aaregistry.com/african_ameri ... y_aviation
Tue Aug 15, 2006 11:30 am
Good to know. Thanks!
Tue Aug 15, 2006 11:55 am
From New Georgia Encyclopedia
Eugene Bullard (1895-1961)
Eugene Bullard was the world's first black combat aviator,
Eugene Bullard
flying in French squadrons during World War I (1917-18). Before he became a pilot he served in the French infantry and was awarded the Croix de Guerre.
Born in a three-room house in Columbus, Eugene James (Jacques) Bullard was the seventh child of Josephine Thomas and William O. Bullard. Bullard's parents, married in Stewart County in 1882, had Creek Indian as well as African American ancestry. William Bullard was born a slave; his parents were the property of Wiley Bullard, a planter in Stewart County. In the early 1890s William Bullard moved to Columbus, where he worked for W. C. Bradley, a rising cotton merchant.
The young Bullard attended the Twenty-eighth Street School from 1901 to 1906. Although his education was minimal, he nonetheless learned to read, one of the keys to his later successes. With his older sister and brothers, Bullard absorbed his father's conviction that African Americans must maintain dignity and self-respect in the face of the prejudice of a white majority determined to "keep blacks in their place" at the bottom of society. Shaken by the near lynching of his father in 1903 and seeking adventure in the world beyond Columbus, he ran away from home in 1906. In Atlanta he joined a group of gypsies (an English clan known by the surname Stanley) and traveled with them throughout rural Georgia, tending and learning to race their horses. The Stanleys brought to his attention that the racial color line did not exist in England. Disheartened that the gypsies were not soon returning home, Bullard left them at their camp in Bronwood in 1909 and found work and patronage with the Zachariah Turner family of Dawson. Friendly and hard working as a stable boy, Bullard won the affection of the Turners, who allowed him to ride as their jockey in horse races at the Terrell County Fair in 1911.
Despite his relationship with the Turners, Bullard was still affronted by racism and he resolved to leave the United States for Great Britain. He did so as a stowaway on a German merchant ship, the Marta Russ, which departed Norfolk, Virginia, on March 4, 1912, bound for Aberdeen, Scotland. In 1912-14, Bullard performed in a vaudeville troupe and earned money as a prizefighter in Great Britain and elsewhere in Western Europe. He appeared in Paris for the first time at a boxing match in November 1913.
At the beginning of World War I, Bullard joined the French army, serving in the Moroccan Division of the 170th Infantry Regiment. The French government awarded him the Croix de Guerre for his bravery at the Battle of Verdun. Twice wounded and declared unfit for infantry service, he requested assignment to flight training. He amassed a distinguished record in the air, flying twenty missions and downing at least one German plane.
Between the world wars he owned and managed nightclubs in the Montmartre section of Paris, where he emerged as a leading personality among such African American entertainers as Josephine Baker, Louis Armstrong, and Sidney Bechet. In 1923 he married Marcelle Straumann, the daughter of a wealthy Parisian family. The couple had two surviving children, Jacqueline and Lolita, before separating in 1931. In the late 1930s Bullard joined a French government counterintelligence network spying on Germans in Paris. When Nazi Germany conquered France in 1940 Bullard and his daughters escaped to New York City. He worked there in a variety of occupations for the rest of his life.
Suggested Reading
P. J. Carisella and James W. Ryan, The Black Swallow of Death (Boston: Marlborough House, 1972).
Craig Lloyd, Eugene Bullard, Black Expatriate in Jazz-Age Paris (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2000).
Mary Smith, "The Incredible Life of Monsieur Bullard," Ebony, December 1967, 120-28.
Craig Lloyd, Columbus State University
Published 11/19/2002
===============================================
Learn Something New Everyday
Eugene Bullard (1895-1961)
Eugene Bullard was the world's first black combat aviator,
Eugene Bullard
flying in French squadrons during World War I (1917-18). Before he became a pilot he served in the French infantry and was awarded the Croix de Guerre.
Born in a three-room house in Columbus, Eugene James (Jacques) Bullard was the seventh child of Josephine Thomas and William O. Bullard. Bullard's parents, married in Stewart County in 1882, had Creek Indian as well as African American ancestry. William Bullard was born a slave; his parents were the property of Wiley Bullard, a planter in Stewart County. In the early 1890s William Bullard moved to Columbus, where he worked for W. C. Bradley, a rising cotton merchant.
The young Bullard attended the Twenty-eighth Street School from 1901 to 1906. Although his education was minimal, he nonetheless learned to read, one of the keys to his later successes. With his older sister and brothers, Bullard absorbed his father's conviction that African Americans must maintain dignity and self-respect in the face of the prejudice of a white majority determined to "keep blacks in their place" at the bottom of society. Shaken by the near lynching of his father in 1903 and seeking adventure in the world beyond Columbus, he ran away from home in 1906. In Atlanta he joined a group of gypsies (an English clan known by the surname Stanley) and traveled with them throughout rural Georgia, tending and learning to race their horses. The Stanleys brought to his attention that the racial color line did not exist in England. Disheartened that the gypsies were not soon returning home, Bullard left them at their camp in Bronwood in 1909 and found work and patronage with the Zachariah Turner family of Dawson. Friendly and hard working as a stable boy, Bullard won the affection of the Turners, who allowed him to ride as their jockey in horse races at the Terrell County Fair in 1911.
Despite his relationship with the Turners, Bullard was still affronted by racism and he resolved to leave the United States for Great Britain. He did so as a stowaway on a German merchant ship, the Marta Russ, which departed Norfolk, Virginia, on March 4, 1912, bound for Aberdeen, Scotland. In 1912-14, Bullard performed in a vaudeville troupe and earned money as a prizefighter in Great Britain and elsewhere in Western Europe. He appeared in Paris for the first time at a boxing match in November 1913.
At the beginning of World War I, Bullard joined the French army, serving in the Moroccan Division of the 170th Infantry Regiment. The French government awarded him the Croix de Guerre for his bravery at the Battle of Verdun. Twice wounded and declared unfit for infantry service, he requested assignment to flight training. He amassed a distinguished record in the air, flying twenty missions and downing at least one German plane.
Between the world wars he owned and managed nightclubs in the Montmartre section of Paris, where he emerged as a leading personality among such African American entertainers as Josephine Baker, Louis Armstrong, and Sidney Bechet. In 1923 he married Marcelle Straumann, the daughter of a wealthy Parisian family. The couple had two surviving children, Jacqueline and Lolita, before separating in 1931. In the late 1930s Bullard joined a French government counterintelligence network spying on Germans in Paris. When Nazi Germany conquered France in 1940 Bullard and his daughters escaped to New York City. He worked there in a variety of occupations for the rest of his life.
Suggested Reading
P. J. Carisella and James W. Ryan, The Black Swallow of Death (Boston: Marlborough House, 1972).
Craig Lloyd, Eugene Bullard, Black Expatriate in Jazz-Age Paris (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2000).
Mary Smith, "The Incredible Life of Monsieur Bullard," Ebony, December 1967, 120-28.
Craig Lloyd, Columbus State University
Published 11/19/2002
===============================================
Learn Something New Everyday
Wed Aug 16, 2006 2:37 am
Unreal, something to really look forward to.
On a similar note, has The Great Raid been released up there? Nothing of it down here yet.
Some good Aussie warbird flying in it apparently.
Cheers
Andy
On a similar note, has The Great Raid been released up there? Nothing of it down here yet.
Some good Aussie warbird flying in it apparently.
Cheers
Andy
Wed Aug 16, 2006 9:42 pm
The Grear Raid has been out for almost a year I have had the dvd for over six months. Are you all that far behind? The movie came out historically good except for the obligatory love connection. To bad they had to use the Lockheed instead of the proper aircraft for the fly over!
Thu Aug 17, 2006 2:28 am
Looks like we are that far behind with this movie. We usually get most soon after the US and even sometimes before the UK but this one is really dragging. I remember reading about the filming of the aerial sequences at least three years ago.
Cheers
Andy
Cheers
Andy
Sat Sep 23, 2006 1:28 pm
Say the movie yesterday. A bit cookbook in plot, but an enjoyable film nonetheless.
Although I think I saw more DRI's shot down than they ever built.
I gave it a thumbs up.
Although I think I saw more DRI's shot down than they ever built.
I gave it a thumbs up.