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Originally Posted by
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I thought that the engine and machine guns from Richthofen's DR1 triplane were at the Imperal War Museum ?
I don't think so, but if they are for sure, someone will tell us shortly. Peter should know for sure...he'll be in there too eventually. Suspended in wax like Lenin...
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11-28-2014 05:05 PM
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Doing a search on Richthofen in the Imperial War Museum collection I found that they have his Le Rhone rotary engine. I have no idea whether it is on display but as I recall it was when I was there in 1995.
COLLECTIONS OF THE IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM© IWM (Q 31461)
THE AERIAL WARFARE IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR© IWM (Q 71652)
Bob
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I watched a documentary a couple of years ago where they examened his death. Supposedly the doccuments of his autopsy exist. The nature of the wound was that he could not have lived long after being hit. It also stated that they found the bullet in his jacket where it had lodged after passing through his body. From that and the angle of the wound they figured that the fatal bullet was fired from the ground and had spent a lot of it's energy in flight before it struck him.
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At the Omaka Airshow in Blenheim New Zealand they have had seven Dr 1's painted in the Jasta 11 colours. The mock dogfight with some five or so assorted allied aircraft is quite something. I do not know whether the planes are built with radial or rotary engines. But you definitely get the blipping of the engines from the Sopwiths. Most of them are owned by Sir Peter Jackson the filmmaker. who also has three ww1 tank replicas, a ww1 krupp battery, an 88mm cannon, and enough ww1 rifles to arm a Battalion. He also has bankrolled the Omaka aviation museum to house his ww1 air collection. which includes several pieces of the Red Barons plane notably several of the fuselage icons torn from the wreck. There is also a diorama of the crash with Australian troops cutting the plane apart with bayonets and there is one making off with a flying boot (also on display) Its good to see a wealthy man spending his money wisely and then showing off his toys.
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At least he's showing them off...
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Huh, Hollywood folk and a weapons collection? Now that's not something you hear everyday.
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Personally, I like it better than say, the guy that buys up all the Titanic stuff he can...
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Sir Peter has always been fascinated by WW1, in one of his very first films a zombie is killed with a '07 Patt bayonet.
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Steven Spielberg was said to have a large collections of German weapons.
Bob
"It is said, 'Go not to the elves for counsel for they will say both no and yes.' "
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