WW1 Replica SE5a in dogfight - POV - Airshow Piestany 2022 - Crazy pilot skills

[@WarlordFlanker]

This is the most amazing airshow footage I have ever seen. Anytime I see WW1 birds in a show, the movements are graceful, slow, and safe. This looked like a DOGFIGHT! Awesome video to watch!!

[@tombolenbaugh4030]

What strikes me is how the wind drowns out all other sounds. So different from the movies where the engine sound dominates the soundtrack. Wow.

[@aliberkozderya3112]

This is so, so much better than what I expected. This is amazing

[@xpump876]

Wow -skills indeed - awfully darn close to the terra-firma and other planes with no room for error - this reenactment bordered on scary.

[@anthonyjennis3332]

i am not a pilot and i am sure these guys know what they are doing but seemed to me a lot of close passing of each other at same altitude , emerging unsighted through the smoke clouds with a busy distracted workload (refitting mag for the effects lewis gun). Was amazing to watch - love the SE5

[@po1ly414]

Of course there was, it’s a dogfight! These guys are likely incredibly experienced and very highly trained pilots. The way we work, nothing is left to chance.

[@DanielMigneault]

So impressive, thanks for the ride, wow!

[@KenandRose]

Amazing video, and pilot- really shows what these planes could do!!

[@Violinist_PL]

1:48, damn, that was close!

[@OldMtnGeezer]

My thoughts exactly!

[@richardknott2021]

Excellent..

[@pietroseven8228]

waaaaaw, very aggressive flying, never seen such this before

[@UWfalcin]

That is absolutely amazing

[@lancenetworkv5938]

Love it.

[@robertshaver4432]

Sweeeeet Wow!

[@shockflyer71]

Cool

[@LETSGO2FLY]

Nádhera!!!

[@GOZR]

Real good

[@andrewbatty3858]

Jesus, a bit fucking close at 1:50

[@Centermass762]

Those guys had huge balls. Very cool video! That gun being a POS would get annoying real fast.

[@kyleJohn1997]

Could't get more balls than Albert Ball

Pecka!

[@barnabyandanthonysofficial1497]

@pterodactylflight What plans were the planes built from?

[@pterodactylflight8216]

Hi, we fly scaled replicas (75-90%) and use adjusted plans from replicraft

[@barnabyandanthonysofficial1497]

so you made your own plans?@@pterodactylflight8216

[@kriseckhardt5148]

What are the weapons used?

[@banjoglider]

Petr is using old soviet PPSh 43 converted to fire blank ammo in place of the Lewis gun

[@teggy689]

Does anyone have footage of this from the ground?

[@MrNaKillshots]

He's all over the place.

[@infoscholar5221]

No engine noise?

[@Vito_993]

Time traveler goings to ww1 with go pro

[@Yohann67]

If this camera is POV the pilot must be cross eyed. Otherwise the plane is awesome and the flying is great.

[@discount8508]

😳!!!!

[@K1W1fly]

Will be useful in an accident investigation... yes, its realistic, but unnecessarily risky!

[@ickster23]

It's their lives. They can decide what is risky to them.

[@nedo68]

especialy the close encounters, i mean this can happen so quick and its over, nothing for a family dad ;D Nevertheless a fantastic show.

[@HO-bndk]

"crazy pilot skills" Bank left...bank right...bank left...bank right... hardly "top gun". I guess he was too scared in case he broke the aeroplane.

[@chrisjacks2599]

someone is going to get killed doing that.

[@bethanbaker7066]

They did all the time in WW1 especially since before they could shoot through the propellers if the gun jamed they had to sometimes stand up in the plane in flight during a dogfight to fix it. Of course that depended on where on the plane the gun was mounted, which gun and if the pilot had gone over everything very carefully before flight which at the rate your friends died at became more and more easy to become drunk all the time and forget. I can't remember fully but I believe it wasn't until around 1916 that all sides could shoot through the propellers but it also depended on if which type operation you did (observer or fighter) and how old the plane was. Observer planes tended to be older models. Even when there was shooting through the propellers sometimes the mechanisms timing it made a mistake and shot off your propellers therefore crashing the plane and either straight up killing the pilot or burning the likely around 20 year old inside. Sometimes they also didn't use the belts in the planes on the chance that if they did crash it could either kill them immediately or make sure they weren't stuck burning alive inside and had more of a chance of getting out. It meant that if they tipped too much they could be thrown out of their plane. The wings were also prone to shearing (especially if wing warping was used) and engines stalling causing crashes. The planes coud be extremely flammable and also the engines threw back oil onto the pilot, some didn't wear goggles, most didn't wear helmets, the Germans only really used parachutes and even then that was in 1918. Most pilots refused the use of oxygen therefore becoming very disoriented quickly as there was no way of knowing how altitude would affect until flight and this caused many to become lost and never return or steer right into the group or faint in the middle of flight. Hypothermia was huge. Loss caused many to become depressive and serious drinkers. Many died in training before even getting to the front lines and when they did they had a few weeks before it was estimated they died. All in all the planes were death traps and had a big death toll, no where near as much as the army but then again they didn't have half as many in the airforce as they did the army. All of this information came from the book Marked For Death. I forgot the author but just so you know what my source for this information is. Its also probably likely that because of accidents people have died doing stunts in replicas since it happens in other replica events too, less common now than in WW1 but still happens.

[@benjaminbrown3402]

Wings over Dallas part 2

[@JC-wr7mu]

Yep, this is a mid-air and a stall/spin accident waiting to happen.

[@lancenetworkv5938]

Bark at them at the hospital. 🙄

[@ickster23]

So be it. Not everyone wants to live in a bubble wrapped safety box.