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Film homage: WW1 German flying ace
Film homage: WW1 German flying ace
Last Modified: 01 Apr 2008
By:
Stephanie West
Germany is reviving old aviation memories through the Red Baron, Baron von Richthofen, fabled flying ace, once the scourge of UK pilots.
In Britain he's been mocked by Blackadder, in America he's been pitted against Snoopy in a videogame - but now a multi-million pound German feature film about the first world war fighter pilot has just premiered in Berlin.
And this is a big week in the skies...the RAF is celebrating its ninetieth birthday.
Today the Red Arrows did a spectacular anniversary fly-past over Westminster, scattering their characteristic trails as they did so.
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