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Sep 22, 2006 · Forced to abandon his family's ranch, Blaine Rawlings finds his future in a newsreel chronicling the adventures of young aviators in France. At a small train station in rural Nebraska, William ...
Now comes "Flyboys," a throw-back to the war films of the 50's and 60's, starring Franco as Blaine Rawlings, a Texas farmer who loses the family ranch and decides to enlist in the Lafayette Escadrille, a real-life force of American pilots during World War I that fought for the French before the United States even joined the war.
Blaine Rawlings is a Texas cowboy who just lost his family’s ranch to foreclosure. William Jensen is a Nebraska farmer following in the footsteps of his war hero fathers. Harvard dropout Briggs Lowry joins under pressure from his severe and wealthy father.
FLYBOYS is an exciting adventure yarn about the courageous American men who flew airplanes for the French in World War I. Known as the Lafayette Escadrille, these men became the first American heroes of the war before the U.S. entered it. It focuses on one of several recruits, Blaine Rawlings, a former Texas ranch owner played by James Franco.
Lukeville, AZ, on the U.S. border is named after Frank Luke. Frank Luke was named the Class Exemplar of the U.S. Air Force Academy's class of 2010. In the 2006 movie Flyboys, James Franco's leading character Blaine Rawlings is inspired by Frank Luke. Death and Burial. Second Lieutenant Frank Luke, Jr. was killed in action on 29 September 1918.
Blaine Rawlings (James Franco) was forced to leave his home in Texas after the family ranch was foreclosed by the bank. Blaine sees a newsreel of fighter-pilots in France and decides that he has nothing to lose. Briggs Lowry (Tyler Labine) can't do anything right and is shamed into joining by his rich father.
Captain Georges Thenault. dogfights (airfare) best pilot, shoots down 5 or more enemy planes. (1914 - 1918) European war in which an alliance including Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy, and the United States defeated the alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, and Bulgaria. airplanes with a double set of wings used in WWI.
