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5 unusual facts about The Blue Max


Emmet Dalton

His company helped produce films such as The Blue Max, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and The Lion in Winter, all of which were filmed in Ireland.

Fight in the Skies

Carr began working on the game after watching the movie The Blue Max.

Morane-Saulnier MS.230

A MS.230 was used at the end of the movie The Blue Max as the "new monoplane" in which Lt. Stachel is killed during a test flight.

Pfalz D.III

However, two flying replicas were built for the 1966 film The Blue Max.

Wilhelm Reinhard

The death of Reinhard flying a prototype is closely paralleled in the book and film The Blue Max.



see also

Hans Joachim Friedrich von Sydow

Lieutenant General Hans Joachim Friedrich von Sydow (13 May 1762 in Zernikow / Nordwestuckermark – 27 April 1823) was a Prussian officer who fought in the Napoleonic Wars He was honoured with a knighthood and the Blue Max (Pour le Mérite).