Warbird Information Exchange

I got my copy of the defender this morning and watched it at lunch with some of the other guys in my shop. Wow!! My buddy said it best just as it ended "You've gotta be s----ing me! Now I've seen it all!!" Thanks for the heads up everyone; it was worth it.

Fascinating, isn't it? He should have just built a IL2 Sturmovic, as that would have met all his "design requirements".

OK, I know this has been brought up a million times, what is "The Defender" and where can I get it? It's gotta be good cause everybody's talking about it but I'm out of the loop on this one...

tc

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Trey--

"The Defender" was a National Film Board of Canada documentary, made in the early eighties, about Bob Diemert, an eccentric aircraft collector and, um, entrepreneur based at Carman, Manitoba, and his dream of building a low-cost, lightweight strike aircraft for the CF. I won't even try to describe it, other than to say it somewhat smacks of the cult classic "mockumentaries" like "This Is Spinal Tap", except it's more "low-rent" than that...and "The Defender", proving the verity of the saying that truth is often stranger than fiction, is TRUE! If you've the wrong sort of sense of humour you'll go "huh"? and probably lob the VHS out the window (there was never a DVD release of this doc); but if you see things the way most WIXers seem to, you'll absolutely bust a gut if you see it...

S.

I, obviously, don't have the sense of humor that many of the WIXers have. (At times, it's been called quite obtuse.) I found "The Defender" to be a waste of almost an hour not to mention the $30.
I'm not going to apologize to Mr. Diemert's friends for the following assessment....I think the man is a nut job.

Mudge the obtuse

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Mudge, I guarantee that you'll get thirty bucks for that video on Ebay! Maybe we're all a little nuts here but that film is a classic!

I ahve got to own that chase car.

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Hey Mudge, I'm going to take your word for it. I've heard the flick discussed on this forum before and admittedly tweated my interest but I'm going to respect the Wixer's chief movie critic...Tom

Ah yes... "The Wedge", wasn't it?

Dan...CLASSIC?
The Searchers is a classic. Cool Hand Luke is a classic. Citizen Kane is a classic. I'd rather have to watch Mars Attacks for 24 hours straight than to have to watch The Defender trailer (if it had one).

Mudge the critic

I've already given it to one of our members.

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Gee Mudge, I kinda liked "Mars Attacks". One of our flight engineers can even do the "mahhp-mahhp!" sound - but not the "angry" one.

Group,
I have to go with Dan Jones asessment in his second reply to this topic. A 'little nuts' perhaps, but I guarantee you won't find many dull or boring people in THIS hobby.

On the step and in the wind!
Canso42