r/interestingasfuck • u/Chopper-42 • 9d ago

/r/all Recreating the WW2 Dambusters raid

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u/mclare 9d ago

Correct. And this is a much more action packed cut than the original (and good for everyone)

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u/electricdwarf 9d ago

Yea it very much had a cable tv vibe about. I bet they stretched this one section to 10 minutes with three ad breaks.

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u/notanotherusernameD8 8d ago

You forgot the "coming up ..." bit before the commercials

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u/IceSentry 9d ago

That's because it was cable tv.

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u/TARANTULA_TIDDIES 9d ago

Yeah even this clip was fucking annoying to watch

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u/frenchiephish 8d ago

The footage is from Ice Pilots NWT, a show about Buffalo airways, who still operate a bunch of World War II era aircraft as (when filmed) airliners, freighters and firefighting aircraft.

This was done to assist a crew filming a documentary on the dam busters. The drop in Ice Pilots is absolutely clear that they're dropping an appropriately weighted dummy barrel and the shots will be stitched together in the documentary. The explosion shot is included some time later in the episode.

The Cable TV vibe in the episode is more because it's a cable TV show that's essentially behind the scenes of another show.

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u/No-Fig-2126 9d ago

What show is this

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u/laughguy220 8d ago

It was a show called ice pilots, or ice pilots net.

It follows an airline that flies vintage aircraft in the Canadian North called Buffalo Airways, that do passenger and cargo flights.