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I saw it the weekend before (getting back to the movie). Mark Rylance (who played Rudolf Abel in "Bridge of Spies") owned that movie. Oddly, Kenneth Branagh has only a cameo role.
Here's a question for you aviation nerds. Weren't you just a bit skeptical about the apparently-limitless ability of that Spitfire to glide when the pilot ran out of fuel?
Well firstly, they shouldn't have run out of fuel as fast as they did. Rivetheads that I know said that the Spits effective range fully fueled and combined with the closeness of the Dunkirk to the coast means they should've been able to loiter over the battlefield for a much longer time than depicted. As for the planes glide characteristics, I've only flown her in sims but she was able to hang for quite a while. Glide time is also dependent on your altitude and speed when you lost power. The Spits had excellent aerodynamics which would have given her far better glide capabilities than say a P-47 which was essentially a flying brick with a big honking engine on the front. So of the two I say the effective range of the plane is a bigger error than any exaggerated glide characteristics.
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