Operation Crossbow | Pulse Jet Rocket Flight Test | Warner Classics

Operation Crossbow (1965) #WarnerArchive #WarnerBros #OperationCrossbow
The Germans test the V-1 Pulse Jet Rocket's Autopilot. "Switching To Manual Control!"
A fearsome rumor reaches Britain’s World War II command. The Nazis are developing rocket technology that could rain death on London and then New York. Quickly, England develops a plan to send saboteurs into the sites manufacturing the rockets. Just moments after the carefully chosen commandos parachute into the drop zone, their pilot receives an urgent message: The mission may be compromised. Abort. Operation Crossbow is the partly fact-based tale of how that team succeeded against daunting odds. Michael Anderson (The Dam Busters, Logan’s Run) directs, guiding a huge cast in a film that builds to a spectacular finale, yet never neglects war’s unsparing personal costs. As a record of a wartime espionage incursion and as an intrigue-filled thriller, Operation Crossbow is on both counts Operation Accomplished.
Special Features: Vintage Featurette "A Look Back at Crossbow"; Theatrical Trailer (HD).
Directed By Michael Anderson
Starring Sophia Loren, George Peppard, Trevor Howard
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[@robertboykin1828]

I remember that movie. Played @ my air base, Bitburg , germany mid 60's. Really enjoyed it.

[@adambrown3918]

I watched this movie with family 2 years ago for the first time and absolutely loved it. So much was on the line for the mission to succeed. It had me enthralled. Great star studded cast! George Pepard was total bad ass!! Thanks for uploading. You have a new subscriber. 😊

[@frankkovacs6214]

Barbara Rütting does a fine job of portraying Hanna Reitsch, the only woman to pilot a rocket plane in history, the Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet. While the movie fictionalizes it a bit, she had a hard landing in one of the prototypes and spent five months hospitalized. She was one tough cookie... a movie about her alone would be worth watching.

[@johnstirling6597]

She remained an avowed National Socialist to the end of her days and even , prominently wore the iron cross with oak leaves and diamonds presented to her by Hitler on many occasions.

[@hertzair1186]

Read her Book, “I flew for the Fatherland”

[@swolf950]

Yep. She was a real tough cookie with a long history

[@michaelschubert6245]

This is'nt a Me 163 Komet. It's a Fiesler F104 Reichenberg Geraet. A Manned V1 Cruise Missile.

[@nelsonwalker7105]

I wish they would make a movie about her - I always loved this part of operation crossbow

[@edwinsantiago4966]

Terrific war movie, masterfully mixing fiction with history and action.

[@spikespa5208]

It's either a pulse jet *_or_* a rocket.

[@Kempton3200]

OK.....I’m a war movie nut and this is the first time I’m seeing this.

[@russianbotfarm3036]

We don’t get to see a lot of German war movies. I can recommend ‘Die Brucke’ 1956 or so, if you haven’t seen it.

[@8BitDane]

@@russianbotfarm3036 That one is great, with the kid soldiers. Very well made anti-war....war movie.

[@WilliamJones-Halibut-vq1fs]

She was one of many German female test pilots but by far the most incredible. She much Ju 87 dive bomber testing.

[@No1sonuk]

@@russianbotfarm3036 Operation Crossbow isn't a German war movie. It starred George Peppard and Jeremy Kemp, and was about allied spies infiltrating the V-weapons programme. This was just a section about the development of the V1. www.imdb.com/title/tt0059549/

[@Kempton3200]

@@No1sonuk Cool! I will watch this ASAP.

[@vonbraunwerner9067]

1:47 was a beautiful actress with such beautiful eyes - brown-green 3:01

[@emillyyelen5169]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_R%C3%BCtting

[@vonbraunwerner9067]

@@emillyyelen5169 thank you !! 3:07 and 1:52 too - and at 1:56 "no, no, don't put goddam googles on such eyes... it's a shame !" LMAO

[@robertmendick3195]

The daring test pilot Hanna Reitsch had the distinction of flying the last plane out of Berlin, which was on 28 April 1945. Her passenger was a Luftwaffe Field Marshal. Berlin was surrounded by Soviet forces fighting inwards to the center of the city. Four days later, on 2 May, the city was captured.

[@jobob47]

that was a pretty well done scene. built the tension well

[@ikewasgen45]

add the German actress Lily Palmer as a British agent

[@38listerjag]

My Father unwittingly met Hanna Reitsch at an air show in the early 60's, he was admiring a Fieseler Storch and they got into conversation about aircraft of all sorts whilst both walking arround the aircraft on display , on parting company the colleagues he was with said 'how on earth do you know Hanna Reitsch?' He had absolutely no Idea who she was and maybe if he had and started asking about her life maybe it would have been a far briefer conversation?

[@elrjames7799]

@38listerjag. My uncle Claude met a girl who knew a boy who "unwittingly met Hanna Reitsch at an air show in the early 60's". And he said to me that she said to him "all sorts whilst both walking arround the aircraft on display."

[@mikestevenson2303]

I would have her a medal.

[@elrjames7799]

@Graf von Losinj You're so right: nice sense of humour: well done.

[@SwingingInTheHood]

Lots of former Nazis sort of re-invented themselves after the war. I'll never forget one incident. I had a good friend who was the most pro-Black/African guy you'd ever want to meet. Wore dashikis and those little African hats all the time, and generally promoted a sort of Black people first philosophy. This was back in the early 1990s I believe. One afternoon I was over to his house, and looking through some of his African-themed coffee table photo books. One of them struck me, with beautiful pictures of African landscapes, animals and people. When I flipped to the back to see the author, imagine my surprise: Leni Riefenstahl. I'm like, "Kwaiku, " (he even changed his name to an African name), "Do you know who this woman is?" I'll never forget the irony of that moment. But, the world was still a lot bigger place back then than it is now.

[@romanchomenko2912]

As always the Poles never had recognition for the V1 and V2 and the code breaking machine Enigma . The invention of mine detector as well.

[@stephenburnage7687]

The most intelligent person I ever met, in a long career rubbing shoulders with some very intelligent people, was a Pole.

[@MaxCruise73]

@Roman Chomenko, I became aware of the efforts of the Poles when I read the book "The Secret War" by Brian Johnson published in 1978.

[@SkinPeeleR]

The Poles also were in a big way responsible for the winning of "the battle of Britain." Much owed to the 308 squadron.

[@pcka12]

Informed people know all about Polish (& other Eastern European) contributions to science, technology & military force on the allied side in WW2!

[@MaxCruise73]

The three Poles of note that started the code breaking of the Enigma were Henryk Zygalski, Jerzy Rozicki, and the remarkable Marian Rejewski.

[@mat9813004]

"Bail out" right in front of a jet engine. Their escape route could have been designed better.

[@christophkohler2015]

You could switch the engine off, before bailing out.

[@BelTricky]

@@christophkohler2015 in case of an emergency you don’t have all the time nor the calm to remain logic

[@Lonestar24]

Its a pulse jet, it doesn´t have a compressor and hence no "suction". of course the physical presence of the engine is a danger, but so is the empennage on any other model. You need to get out sideways on almost any airplane

[@petergunn7039]

It's a bomb, wasn't designed to have a pilot.

[@jeffburnham6611]

@@BelTricky you train what to do in an emergency, so its like second nature. You cut the engines, roll the aircraft onto its side and out you go.

[@T34-E]

Comedy wasn't the intention, but that graveyard scene was pure space-balls esque comedy 😂

[@DataWaveTaGo]

Correct me if I'm wrong: Canopy not latched & secured Not strapped into seat Chin strap not used

[@welshskies]

Yep, in most movies nobody locks their car and no biker does up the strap on their helmet. And of course nobody goes to lavatory.

[@adhaskym.a9536]

It's a movie mate. A stupid movie too. Back in the day, this is awesome. Now, this is RUBBISHHHHHH.

[@dgodrummer8110]

things were generally safer back then, "stuff" has got way more dangerous these days. haha

[@williamswenson5315]

The replica isn't a bad job, but yes; the canopy is hinged in the front (not easy to open in a slipstream), a seat belt is possible, but I don't see shoulder straps, her goggles are not down, nor is her chinstrap secure. Hanna Reitsch did manage to successfully fly the Fiesler-103a (Reichenberg) as she was smart enough to be dropped from a mothership at altitude where she did a series of stalls to determine the a/c's best approach and stall speeds. Bailing out was considered problematic owing to the pulse jet engine immediately behind the cockpit. The original had a side-hinged canopy and a single grip control column, not the two-handed one you see in the movie. They were never used as a manned, flying bomb.

[@adhaskym.a9536]

Who rides a bomb anyway? This is one crazy movie. Never thought the Germans were doing coke too back then.

[@elrjames7799]

Not 'switching to manual control', but rather: "taking control myself".

[@mrgobrien]

yes - i suppose the translations are aimed at the (english speaking) audience) rather than being literal - e.g. when snatching the microphone i think the ss man says "gesprechen Sie weitung" (literally `you speak onward') but a better english translation would be "(you), carry on speaking" - however there is no translation given for that bit - maybe because it was obvious what he was saying.

[@mrgobrien]

@elrjames7799 (update) - actually i think he says "gesprechen so weiter" (speak onward)

[@berniescheid5286]

Any landing you walk away from is a good landing. 🇨🇦

[@petelucchini1168]

I guess in the 60's we didn't get to see German Heroic movies in the U.S... As a kid i loved everything WWII!!

[@redhen2470]

Why not? J.F.K. welcomed her to the White House. www.jfklibrary.org/asset-viewer/archives/JFKWHP/1961/Month%2005/Day%2004/JFKWHP-1961-05-04-B

[@mrgobrien]

this was a british film (the start of it where we see the germans inventing the v1)

[@paulb6716]

If you want to visit the filming locations it's Holkham beach near Wells next the Sea ,Norfolk UK. It's unchanged but don't expect to see any V1 ramps or anything!

[@MostlyPennyCat]

Round of applause for the jump cut to the fresh grave!! 👏👏👏👏👏 So often you just get the overused silence, followed by the hero not-really-being-dead and everybody knows that will survive, there's no tension. But overlaying that overused trope over somebody else's fresh grave with the swastika showing us it's recent and Nazi? Genius.

[@jkorshak]

They mention before the flight four pilots having been killed.

[@isee7668]

If only they had used their evil genius for niceness, instead of evil.

[@17MrLeon]

what evil? She was just test pilot for luftwaffe.

[@mrgobrien]

@@17MrLeon it is a pun (from us tv show get smart)

[@BA-gn3qb]

Barbara Rütting was Hot! Passed away March 28, 2020.

[@freddiebozwell7049]

@J M and many doors shutting!

[@cv507]

zerrüttät ?

[@speditionmuller7395]

She was a communist. And that's not cool

[@thomasaquinas5262]

Western ally films have always shortchanged the Eastern allies. The Poles were invaluable in cracking the Enigma code. They also recovered an intact V2 which crashed into swamp land. Invaluable hardware was secreted to London by the intrepid Poles. The film here is like a James Bond film with an historical motif. Great at a drive-in, I suppose, but humbug as to historical accuracy...

[@bradleywhite9118]

Hot humbug, doodlebug.

[@farmerned6]

how many Eastern ally films featuring any of the MANY theatre's of war the western allies fought in are there? I'm betting there are FAR more films Like "Cross of Iron" ,"Enemy at the gate" , "defiance" than vice-versa

[@michellepeoplelikeyoumurde8373]

What is historically accurate is the poles anti Jewish laws were on a par with the nazis

[@TheRogerowen]

Operation Wildhorn (III) would make a spectacular movie - I wrote a production script, research showed me what a convoluted adventure it really was.

[@markstainton9080]

I remember seeing an interview with her when she was in her eighties probably. Talked about this and flying the 163.

[@mobythevillan]

Mark Stainton, I think I remember an interview with her in the series The World At War narrated by Sir Laurence Olivier

[@markstainton9080]

@@mobythevillan That'll be it..I also remember some pathetic journo trying to get Karl Doenitz to apologise for his military service but the guy was as hard as nails.

[@mobythevillan]

Re Doenitz Mark, I guess he was ‘proud’ of his military service, misguided as it turned out of course. Same as Hanna Reitsch. In the WaW interview she came across as the same, almost smiling as she spoke of her experiences with the Nazi regime...

[@markstainton9080]

@@mobythevillan You have to allow for " accident of birth". If they had been lucky enough to have been born British, they would be remembered in a different light.

[@ces4399]

Always had a thing for German girls.

[@Bostonite1985]

What is that 'thing' made of? Plastic or Rubber?

[@richardm3023]

@@Bostonite1985 That's what she said!

[@ianmangham4570]

@@Bostonite1985 Rock

[@Bostonite1985]

@@ianmangham4570 ...I am jealous.

[@dottore3870]

Especially riding and flying a V1.

[@THX11458]

I'm kind of suprised at the accuracy of this movie considering that it was made in 1965. That looks like a real Fieseler Fi 103.

[@MrX-hz2hn]

Seeing as it was made in 1965, it was probably a real one bought for scrap.

[@THX11458]

@@MrX-hz2hn I wouldn't be surprised.

[@rapscallion3506]

In the words of John Lovetts: “Acting!”

[@RasMajnouni]

You...rapscallion

[@kidsoxoxox]

Fathers know they can't be everywhere all the time to protect their daughters they so dearly love. Thats why they are usually the No.1 suspect in raising fearless Tomboys. Her father must of been so proud of her like I am of my two little lionesses.

[@MrRugbylane]

I missed the bit where they have the "Im beginning to think that we might be the bad guys" chat.

[@rebelwithoutapplause5629]

Stephen, that reference is funnier than people are giving you credit for..

[@MrRugbylane]

@@rebelwithoutapplause5629 thanks!

[@dougerrohmer]

@Werewolf O. London, Esq. A bit like the trumpites still believing that the election was stolen, even after no proof given and all the court cases lost...

[@pteppig]

@@dougerrohmer if you search on duckduckgo and outside censored youtube, you find plenty of evidence, videos, pictures, and thaousands of advadavids of election fraud

[@dougerrohmer]

@@pteppig Nah, why bother. Trump's an asshole.

[@randallisaeff1876]

A successful belly landing in a Doodlebug? I did Nazi that coming.

[@pinkyandbrain123]

Um Himmlers Willen!

[@joeylawn36111]

You get the Iron Cross for that comment....🤣

[@robertboykin1828]

Neather that one also.

[@timonsolus]

That shouldn’t have been funny, but it was! 😆

[@drlong08]

Read this and Messerschmidted my beer all over my shirt....

[@larrys.3992]

How to bail out with the intake right behind you!

[@tomasmieger6826]

Just turn off the engine bevore.

[@miklmiklmtrcycl6009]

@@tomasmieger6826 i think you’d have to invert as well

[@nudibanches]

...and also at 150 feet

[@gilbertmoyes2918]

@@tomasmieger6826, you could not turn off a V1 rocket.

[@tomasmieger6826]

@@gilbertmoyes2918 - it would be no problem to build in a fuel-off-switch. The moment a V1 engine (Pulsostrahltriebwerk) is off there is no more Air intake immediately.

[@gabrielbennett5162]

My grandfather, Victor Horton, was a NASA test pilot. He met the real Hanna Reitsch at a Society of Experimental Test Pilots symposium in the early 70s, where she was a speaker on her experience with the manned V1 prototypes. Grandpa said she was fascinating to talk to, in spite of her reprehensible politics (staunch N!zi right to the end). Apparently this scene was inaccurate; they actually dropped the V1 from a mothership plane, X-15 style.

[@peterthurman9384]

I am sorry that nazi bichel did not die in flames or by some other violent, painful means. Her v1 and v2 caused a lot of flaming misery in england.

[@limedickandrew6016]

@@peterthurman9384 It seems Peter that old Nazis have a lot in common with modern anti Nazis these days, judging by your own hate filled post.

[@peterthurman9384]

@@limedickandrew6016 tell it to the hand. Better yet, tell it to the screaming, hysterical family members (russian, polish, jewish, etc) murdered in front of each other to maximize their suffering by the nazis. I suspect you feel sorry for the suffering by the axis powers, in general. Point: don't start nothin, won't be nothin, may that nazi burn in hell, and shame on the USA for giving her a life of prestige after the war. That said, considering the USA has given the world the likes of Donald Trump and his 70+ million supporters, I'd say the USA has it coming, too.

[@limedickandrew6016]

@@peterthurman9384 I don't hate anyone, no matter what they did in the past. Only Nazis and people like you are full of hate.

[@oliverbraun4966]

Hanna Reitsch indeed flew the FI 103 / V1 - so that is historical fact. Wonder they even catch the right sound of that thing.

[@johnnyllooddte3415]

she should have won a medal

[@ug67484z]

I like the RPM gauge in the cockpit

[@michaelhaddleton2739]

The V1 had a pulse jet, not rocket.

[@mirimar69]

True but it had a RATO sled that fell off after departure from the sled

[@tomasmieger6826]

Pulsostrahltriebwerk oder auch Intermittierendes Staustrahltriebwerk genannt.

[@tomasmieger6826]

Pulsostrahltriebwerk or also known as Intermittierendes Staustrahltriebwerk.

[@ianmoseley9910]

I think they had to run it up with compressed air befor launch?

[@tomasmieger6826]

@@ianmoseley9910- yes, the maid said it as she was starting the engine : "Pressluft an" - that means : "air pressure on"

[@marcros7289]

Amazing reconstruction

[@lauizluiz8113]

She flying in a BOMB! and SURVIVE??? Wow!! i knew it :O

[@SwissOnlineLeo]

Now I know where Boba Fett's ship Slave 1 got it's sound effects from.

[@enscroggs]

Hanna Reitsch did make a test flight in a "buzz bomb", several in fact, but not in this context. In this highly fictionalized film, the Fieseler Fi-103 is unstable and unable to fly a straight course. Consequently, a piloted version is built to diagnose the problem. This was not the case. The V-1 as designed was sufficiently stable and accurate to hit London with high reliability. The problem was precision. The V-1 could not hit a militarily strategic target, such as a bridge or a specific factory. To give the V-1 that ability a piloted version was developed. Hanna Reitsch participated in that project. Known as the Fi-103R Reichenberg, the piloted V-1 was intended to be a suicide weapon, conceptually similar to the Japanese Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka. However, there's no evidence any operational attacks were made.

[@SteveBrownRocks2023]

This movie is on my DVR!

[@rachidluildha2676]

"Bail out! It's an order!" Yeah right, and just get your head right in front of the reactor's intake!

[@thomasschwalger7580]

Visuell,könnte man meinen der Film wurde in Peenemünde gedreht.Sprich die Landschaft gut gewählt.

[@sangdopalri349]

Awsome Kpt. Hanna Reitsch.

[@barklordofthesith2997]

Special effects have improved slightly from 1965 to today in 2021

[@WINGTV9]

Thank God she made it!

[@alicedell8595]

Excellent job. Now let's conquer the world!

[@rogerangress9983]

God in heaven; why wasn't the great actress aernatis, Susan Oliver used in this interesting aeronautical motion picture. She would have been perfect for the part....????

[@newdefsys]

Yeah, heaven forbid a German actress play a German character in a movie with German scenes. What were they thinking ?

[@SpreadEagled]

Hanna Reitsch was quite a test pilot at her time in the 1940s.

[@christopherwebber3804]

It's a ram jet, not a rocket, and it didn't work while it was stationary, which is one reason it had to be launched from a catapault.

[@seanjoseph8637]

Real test pilot.

[@SanitysVoid]

Pilot pro tip: Get some altitude before you start testing things out.

[@cliffcox7643]

Drah' di net um - oh, oh, oh Schau, schau, der Kommissar geht um - oh, oh, oh

[@heartland96a]

I thought I d read that she sustained a major back/ spinal injury from the crash , perhaps it was a different event

[@whiteknightcat]

That was during a test flight of a rocket-propelled Me163 Komet in 1942, before the V1 project.

[@vgfxworks]

there was something wrong from start, I could feel by the engine sounds, something with those propellers.

[@bluetv6386]

So next time I switch my car to manual I’ll make sure I put some goggles on.

[@moyockmoo2]

I love it when you speak German! :-)

[@royalanania3306]

She was the only Luftwaffe Iron Cross female pilot,and Hitlers private pilot on his Junker 87

[@Olebull93]

So this is the new Top Gun sequel huh

[@FreiheitInDeutschland]

RIP her and hail our great technic

[@fred_2021]

Glad she made it. Would have been a waste of perfect teeth.

[@ravenhill-the-hospitaller-1968]

these old films can never be beaten, it's all ridiculous rubbish as entertainment now.

[@michaelvalenzuela2528]

Amazing to me how many volunteers the had for the Nazi Kamikaze project.

[@ВЛАДИМИРС-т1о]

сдаётся мне что это была Валентина Терешкова

[@mydogbrian4814]

- And that folks was the best part of the whole film (the first 4 minutes). And it all went down hill after that with a ridiculous, historicly inaccurate ending.

[@mpetersen6]

At least Sophia Loren looked good

[@anglingnvirginia1346]

A catapult like device that throws u forward in ur seat....... yup sounds like German engineering

[@ZuluLifesaBeech-]

Der ACME GmbH 😂

[@jerryellis6051]

I noticed that too .

[@Kmarty2000]

German engineering was second-to-none! Ever heard of a Foo Fighter? They were seen by Allied air crews all over Europe during WWII, and could fly rings around US aircraft at the time, non-ballistic movement ...UFOs. Look up Operation Paperclip; we made a deal to let Hitler and Ava escape in exchange for German scientists, engineers, and all their 'Fallen Angel' technology. By default, the USA became The Fourth Reich. Sound far-fetched? "Repeat a lie enough times, it becomes the truth." covid19covid19covid19covid19covid19covid19covid19covid19covid19covid19covid19covid19covid19

[@ZuluLifesaBeech-]

Foo Fighters never toured in Germany. 🎼🎶🎵 Wait my bad they did a show in the Stepfatherland in 2015 🙄

[@briananthony4044]

Give it a couple of cannon and make it the first jet interceptor.

[@davidvincent8929]

WOW WE LOVE V1 FLYING BOMBS

[@algizWl]

Переживал за нее) У генерала СС петлицы похоже неправильные (листья прямые должны быть)

[@kapuzinergruft]

Funnily enough some German generals were played by Jewish actors, formerly refugees from Germany.

[@reticulan5]

Understandable as many Jewish people were in entertainment stage, stand up and actors in films. Many of these actors in Hollywood were born, grew up or lived in Germany or Austria. So spoke German.

[@insideoutsideupsidedown2218]

Similar to the German officers played in "Hogan's Heroes"

[@rcdogmanduh4440]

Or the need to eat and feed their families, but who are we to judge?

[@pikiwiki]

Of course. Real life is far less opinionated than what you find online

[@kapuzinergruft]

Some people i.e. writers, comedians and others even returned to Germany (mainly GDR) and Austria... because their income in English language surroundings were low. Kreisler, Anna Seghers, Farkasz,...the most famous literature critic in Germany after the war was a polish born Jew.

[@clockworkpotato]

Wonders of cinema: Sitting and hoping the Nazi test-pilot survives the test flight and finds the glitch in the flying bomb..

[@cdentand]

That's a basic feature of suspence and character identification. Even if it's the villain on screen, you share his or her fears.

[@StrigoiVampire]

In fact the Germans turned from villains to demons only after the 60s, before they were just considered soldiers fighting for their country.

[@VegardMinde]

Science benefit humanity no matter what(!)

[@Szakal_zlocisty-Canis_aureus]

@@StrigoiVampire because after 60s start be loud in western coutries about germans "achievements", before everyone was sailent about it because: a) they need army and frontline "country" in case of war with red side of the curtain... (veterans to mobilization), b) one country start money buisnes on this and start make the matter of achievement loud and better konwn with details among western societies, and thus the truth was known from the veil of silence ppl change their point of view from "soldiers" to evil demons... based on revealed truth XD its only prove how easy manipulate societies and ppl opinion depending on what governments needs...

[@kapitan517]

Right?! This was a very well crafted sequence.

[@joemanganese]

Later after the war, Hanna kept flying as a great glider pilot, she crossed the alps landing in Italy with her glider. She also wrote a book. Most glider pilots remember her, despite her role in the war, she was essentially a born pilot, willing to fly with anything, with or without an engine. The female equivalent of Chuck Yeager, nothing less.

[@geraldbostock9858]

RIP, Chuck.

[@jameshafner1442]

Heaven is VFR ,above the clouds , that is.

[@GregorSass-Ranitz]

@@jameshafner1442 VFR?

[@andyguy0610]

Visual Flight Rules

[@nerome619]

And she never walked back her Nazi beliefs.

[@johnwood1948]

My wife parks like that.

[@raifullah7175]

like

[@raifullah7175]

hhhhhh

[@oyka_na_koyka]

👍😃😂🤣 My wife too...

[@patdingman1373]

My wife dresses like that.

[@boschulte]

lol

[@Ralphieboy]

Her French boyfriend was upset with her for being a Nazi test pilot: Operation Cross Beau

[@jobob47]

groan.

[@jennifermcclain4478]

I see what you did there.

[@TAOM5963]

I read that in Neebs voice.

[@CaesarCassius]

Nigga, Please.

[@juanbustamante6225]

5..

[@7john7able]

My Dad is 90. He lived in Watford during the war, just north of London. He remembers V-1 and the damage they did and people they killed.

[@abraxas2563]

I am an Aussie and hate the Nazi’s as much as anyone in the West. However, during that disgusting war in Europe just as many innocent people were bombed and killed by Allied bombs as by the Germans. It is always the innocents that die when politicians start wars

[@typograf62]

The V1 may have been more terrifying than V2 because one could hear it approach - and then the silence as the pulse jet stopped when it began its dive.

[@roobear78]

@@typograf62 maybe,but at least there was some defence against the v1 and the fact you could hear it gave you a chance,with the v2 it was boom your done,the only saving grace was you never knew it

[@СергейФролов-ы9ш]

Greetings from Russia. Yesterday I turned 60 years old. Sometimes we had craters from aerial bombs as a place for children to play. The Nazis dropped them on passing trains. They did not distinguish between passenger trains and military trains

[@pauldoree3967]

@@typograf62I saw recently that they were put into the dive by a mechanism on board, and the dive had the effect of stopping the pulse jet, so it wasn’t the pulse jet stopping that stopping that then made it dive - surprised me.

[@BeachsideHank]

A great bit of symbolism as Hanna flies past the graveyard of the dead pilots who came before her. You don't find much in movies that can compose a scene that informs the audience with no dialog, the only other one I can think of is THEM! (1954) In that opening scene a little girl (Sandy Descher) who is a mute survivor, is laying in an ambulance while the attendant (William Schallert, Patty Dukes "father") and cop (James Whitmore) talk. Out of sight comes the chirping noise of a mutant, and while both men look away for the source the little girl sits bolt upright, a tight closeup of her face silently telegraphing to the audience the horrors to come- and then she slowly reposes as the sound fades; the two men having entirely missed that telling moment, but not you, the viewer. A simple yet effective scene that conveys so much with no dialog is definitely a lost art nowadays.

[@gazza2933]

Pity she didn't join them!

[@alecfoster4413]

@@gazza2933 Booooo!!!

[@nicok.1491]

Nearly every movie has this...

[@ddegn]

@Paul Reeves I wondered that for a second myself but then I remembered there had been four pilots already killed. I think it was just a reminder how dangerous the job was. I personally think the scene was a bit heavy handed.

[@pickfairguy]

Almost identical scene in opening sequence of “The Right Stuff”, but with a P80 flyover.

[@OS-fq6nd]

That movie was so detail-rich that even the type of trees depicted there are very similar to those found in the area where testing actually took place. Amazing.

[@ScrapperSam]

As I recall, all of the manned craft were dropped from a mother aircraft. The V-1 had insufficient power to takeoff (even with the catapult) from the ground. Also, it was primarily Heinz Kensche who found the faults with the V-1.

[@chrisst8922]

I suspect it might have been Black Park which adjoins Pinewood.

[@OS-fq6nd]

@@chrisst8922 Yeah. The funny thing is that u find such trees and coastal "forests" all along the Northeast German Baltic coast. As i live close to there i found this detail kinda interesting. Maybe coincidence?

[@OS-fq6nd]

@@ScrapperSam Yeah, like the Heinkel 111.

[@chrisst8922]

@@OS-fq6nd Not coincidence. IMDb says it's at Holkham Beach in Norfolk whose geography, climate and geology matches your coasts so the trees would match too. Do you live anywhere near Travemunde?

[@dave623]

If anything goes wrong, bail out. In spite of not actually wearing a functional parachute. Just bail out. We’ll catch you. Bail. Good luck.

[@txgunguy2766]

It wouldn't matter if she did have a chute, she never went high enough to safely bail out.

[@robertbowman448]

Not to mention that she'd have to go right in front of the pulsejet's intake.

[@TimLewallen]

With her goggles off and her flight cap not even fastened.

[@greg6235]

When you go up in a acrobatic glider they strap one on you too. They say the reason for one is in case a wing shears off during flight. So if the wing shears off at 3,000 feet, glider is in a spin or dive, you are expected to release the canopy, undo your four point restraint, climb out of cockpit, and jump. Right.

[@johnassal5838]

@@robertbowman448 Not to mention that canopy opens the wrong way so she'd have to actively brace just to hold it open against wind pressure. Though the real thing may have been just as flimsy as this film prop.

[@darthkarnage7538]

Germany: *develops manned-rockets* Japan: Can we make our own? Germany: Sure! Japan: *develops Ohka manned-rockets* Germany: Oh btw that was just a test flight. Our pilots all made it back alive and well. Japan: They what?

[@samnigam3451]

Rumor has it that they hot these techs from Aliens in Antarctica

[@ismu34]

I always found it interesting how different their approach was, with the German Mistel and the Japanese Ohka

[@wojciechkuske242]

@@ismu34 Don't forget radio control Fortress - crew start and go out (or not).

[@thunderbird1921]

The US Navy referred to them as Baka Bombs (literally "Idiot Bombs").

[@cpsinc6052]

@@thunderbird1921 Which they were!

[@leftchicago]

"It definitely was the trim!" is a phrase that proved to be the downfall of many men.

[@nairda55555]

" that proved to be the downfall of many men" Literally

[@dozer1642]

I’m so proud of you. I was starting to type those words when I read your comment. Brings a tear to my eye seeing a comedic genius at work.

[@Lerequindemort]

Needed quim to fix the trim

[@runcible4755]

I see what you did there. LOL.

[@leftchicago]

@@dozer1642 Thanks for making me laugh out loud.

[@annakimborahpa]

It was probably just as well that Hanna did not marry and so she had no grandchildren. Otherwise, they might have been unfairly referred to as The Third Reitsch.

[@dennismason3740]

That is quite funny. I had ALMOST thought of it myself.

[@TheShanampan]

Dumbfuck!!!

[@TankUni]

I did nazi that coming.

[@danilorainone406]

nein she got hitched to carlo barbera,, Awww HAWHAWHAWHAH und hadt kinder ,freiderich und barnie

[@larss337]

😆

[@kattegatcitychamberofcomme311]

The actress playing Hannah Reich is Barbara Rutting who died in 2020.

[@ИохимРиббентропштишт]

очень жаль... красивая была женщина..

[@bigbob1699]

I hate when the old generals get there before the crash crew .

[@pariscommune9742]

As Always the pompous bigwigs steal the glory from hardworking people.

[@Dave-sw2dm]

nobody dares run past the commanding officer.

[@bigbob1699]

@@Dave-sw2dm crash crews are nuts , they should run over brass to get to a crash . that's their job .

[@Dave-sw2dm]

big bob 169 , and in the real world the brass doesn’t leave the safety of the bunker until the situation is secure.

[@dieterkalkofen8082]

Its Obest Kammler

[@sapper82]

Irrespective of her political allegiances, she was a very brave woman as well as a superb pilot.

[@mjd4174]

Yes she was the real deal, a highly skilled glider pilot which is purported to be the reason she survived the V-1 flights by landing them safely(ish). She was a staunch patriot and did what she did for the benefit of her homeland - who can fault her for that? Just appreciate what a shining talent she was in aviation. She flew helicopters, cruise missiles, sailplanes.. you name it.

[@timmeinschein1061]

@@mjd4174 She was a die hard NAZI!!! That tarnishes her greatly, Damn Good Pilot, but -- -- --

[@sitaspell4384]

Still. Doesn't matter how "great a pilot!Supported Hitler, and his killing war machine. Tell 6 million Dead Jews, plus others, which were massacred by the Nazi Regime. Their voices are silent, but their Graves mock your comments about "Great Nazis."

[@jacksons1010]

@@mjd4174I’d say any thinking, compassionate human could fault her for that. She didn’t serve Germany; she served the Nazis. 👎

[@rcdogmanduh4440]

Right or wrong she did her best, we must always be... better!

[@richiow68]

At least she had time to put her makeup on

[@CaptHollister]

It was either that or strap her helmet on, she chose the makeup.

[@daritawaujo]

@@CaptHollister she is well prepared

[@vincentlim348]

She was a gal?! I thought a transgender 😂

[@taliaperkins1389]

@@vincentlim348 No, but we know you're an asshole.

[@MirlitronOne]

@@taliaperkins1389 Ooh, bitchy!

[@charlespierce8412]

You know what?? I keep looking for Colonel Hogan and Colonel Klink and Sargeant Schultz to have arrived before the others.

[@josiahgodwin2933]

I could see them doing that. It would be funny :)

[@NorthForkFisherman]

But they would have seen nothing, NOTHING!

[@garylove5475]

There were so many great aviators, sailors , warriors , designers , scientists on all sides , that very sadly ,due to war, were able to come to the fore with their immense talents. This lady was one of them. Amazing pilot.

[@gordonhall9871]

yes

[@Outlier999]

She committed no war crimes but she was loyal to Hitler to the end.

[@dnhy7951]

Ah yes, many fine people on both sides! Ah yes indeed!

[@SuperSy99]

The camera use in this movie are far superior than netflix movies

[@tomasmieger6826]

Yeah - my speech

[@flybobbie1449]

Modern is digital, back then probably 35mm film.

[@SuperSy99]

@@flybobbie1449 still many movies shot in 35 mm today because its beautiful specially the high budget movies.digital looks like tv series in my opinion

[@rods6405]

@@flybobbie1449 correct its definitely 35mm thats why Tarantino likes to shoot on film, and he likes to show his movies on film but its expensive.

[@RamonInNZ]

@@flybobbie1449 try 65mm or 85mm movie camera always used much larger film than standard 35mm that everyday jo bloggs used.

[@hardheadjarhead]

“Let’s run out there and see if she’s okay,” “Couldn’t we just drive?” “We need to save fuel fir the war effort.” “Gotcha!”

[@wblake1]

A Rogue One approach to traversing distances. :)

[@ColumbiaB]

Drive out on soggy intertidal muck? They may not have had cars well-suited for that.

[@timonsolus]

“And we don’t have to clean our own boots, anyway. We are senior officers, after all.”

[@ZuluLifesaBeech-]

🤔😂

[@flitsertheo]

@@ColumbiaB Indeed, the well-known VW Kübelwagen was only a military version of the VW Beetle, not a 4x4.

[@Marcfj]

Hanna Reitsch was one of the greatest aviators of all time.

[@orthof6282]

But also an unrepentfull fanatical Nazi! 🤮

[@juliuszkocinski7478]

The shot with a cemetery is just pure gold.

[@Zeta_Reticulum]

Yes and i imediatly looked if the video was over

[@maddocpax788]

It really cements the scene?

[@zegermanscientist2667]

Those were the graves of the guys who didn't find out what the problem was.

[@ScienceFan1859]

Cemetery ? Or cement factory / cementery?

[@juliuszkocinski7478]

@@ScienceFan1859 Cemetery, my bad.

[@misterlimey6408]

Grandpa was digging for victory in the back garden in Tooting, London, when a V1 hit and killed a neighbour a few doors down. When the engine cut out, he instinctively flung himself to the ground, and the following explosion blew all the buttons off his big overcoat.

[@knightowl3577]

leaving all the horrors of war aside for a moment, test pilots are a breed apart.

[@scottrichardson8158]

Developmental or operational test pilots?

[@Tavignano]

German technology was 50 years ahead at the end of WWII. Unfortunately, with the advance of the Allies in Germany the SS massacred the best engineers and destroyed documents.

[@dougerrohmer]

Say what?

[@Tavignano]

@@dougerrohmer The Nazis did not want their technology to fall into the hands of the Allies at the end of the war. The SS were ordered to shoot down the German engineers and destroy all the blueprints. Despite this the Americans and the Russians were able to recover engineers who had fled, they also found jets and missiles, but a lot of secret technologies were lost forever

[@dougerrohmer]

@@Tavignano Never heard of that one. Have you got any sources?

[@Tavignano]

@@dougerrohmer In France and Germany there have been books and also reports with testimonies of former German Nazis. German journalists have researched and investigated.

[@rogerlynch5279]

@@dougerrohmer That is why Americans and Russians overlooked the PAST of those people to make them work after the War for them . The Americans Code named this OPERATION PAPERCLIP, by the German population nicknamed PERSILSCHEIN as in PERSIL the famous German laundry soap powder with the original slogan TURN BROWN INTO WHITE

[@TarpeianRock]

They forgot to mention the slave labourers who built this monstrosity who died and suffered in horrible circumstances.

[@joebuckaroo82]

All that flying and she manages to crash land 100 yards from the crowd. that's some skillful navigation!

[@dondragmer2412]

More like 200 yards.

[@markcastelletti483]

@@dondragmer2412 More like 200 metres. Metric is used in Europe.

[@nottmjas]

@@markcastelletti483 in which case, more like 180 of those new fangled metres

[@davidsaunders1125]

@@markcastelletti483 Yes, they can only count on their fingers and toes ! It has to be in tens!!!!

[@briangreen6602]

They actually built a decent replica and seem to have had an original launch ramp too. The guy that did the green screen type shots of the flying went and spoilt the lot though.

[@pahunter3]

The film was made in 1965. Some of the ramps might have survived the twenty years from the war to the filming. It’s also very likely that very good models were constructed just for the film.

[@drmayeda1930]

The movie was made in 1965. Green screen back then was just beginning mostly these would be miniature models

[@szaki]

Green screen in 1965? Common now?

[@duncandmcgrath6290]

According to the director it was rear screen projection. this was the norm of that era , hence the out of focus look .

[@welshskies]

The shots from the film "Ice Station Zebra" when the Soviet Air Force is speeding over the Arctic had me on the edge of my seat fifty years ago, so did the low level flying footage of Major Kong piloting his B52 at treetop level on his way to Armageddon in Dr Strangelove. Sadly these effects have not weathered the progress of cinematic technology well.

[@LaVictoireEstLaVie]

FYI: The actress' name is Barbara Rütting !

[@moistmike4150]

I'd love to do some rutting with Rütting. Sorry - Low hangin' fruit there.

[@porthard5951]

Barbara Rutting....I bet she did to get the part.

[@StephenLyons-tl8ie]

Babe.

[@CharmsDad]

@@moistmike4150 She’s 92 years old.

[@moistmike4150]

@@CharmsDad Don't judge me!

[@mrdiavel4807]

Let’s be honest , without German tech and scientists the US would have never made it to space at the speed they did , whatever their history and other very unpalatable traits of the time they were way ahead of their opponents scientifically . Makes you wonder what would have happened if they won WW11 , would have been nasty for some but can’t help thinking technologically speaking we might have advanced a lot quicker than we did . No sympathy or any consideration for their politicos or regime but they certainly advanced the world technologically speaking way faster than would have been .

[@krashd]

Yeah, from the late 19th century Germany was the most technologically advanced nation on the planet, physics, chemistry, aviation, electricity (Werner von Siemens electrified Germany with AC while other nations hadn't even decided which current to use),you name it, if it had not been for Hitler bringing ruination on the country for it's tech to be plundered I imagine the world would be very different today. The V-1 as seen here was the world's first cruise missile and the V-2 which followed was the world's first ballistic missile.

[@krabenaldt7605]

War always advances technology. I definitely would prefer the way things went. I can't imagine what the world would be like if you know who would have dominated the world.

[@fredpinczuk7352]

Now just imagine the progress if it wasn't applied to war but science. Germans would have been the 1st to land on the moon.

[@pickfairguy]

Remove the racism and National Socialism would have come out ahead of either Communism or Neoliberal Capitalism.

[@bernardoconnor1502]

Anybody else expect to hear her say "Red 5 Standing By" ?

[@tomasmieger6826]

No - what does it mean.

[@TomasMisura]

@@tomasmieger6826 If i am not mistaken this is line from Star Wars

[@bernardoconnor1502]

@@tomasmieger6826 kzbin.info/www/bejne/m3bIhYqMp9pkp8U

[@664chrisman]

Yeah that cockpit canopy looked suspiciously X Wing like. 😁

[@eltlaw]

No. Because she's clearly more an Empire type - what with fighting for evil and all.

[@kknig7874]

Saw this as a kid back then, it was a great birthday party movie with my friends.

[@BELCAN57]

Me too, it was a "shock" when she said "damn".

[@АбдулмеджидГафаров]

@@BELCAN57 ū 6mki

[@geraldjohnson4013]

I just found out that the whole movie was filmed in England including the rocket and factory scenes.

[@paulb6716]

I thought this scene looked very like Holkham beach in North Norfolk.