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Knights Without Parachutes
A Blog of Great War Stories
Eugene Bullard vs. the Flying Circus
2017-10-06 14:04
This hurt me deeply. Then, as now, my love for my own country was strong. I got some comfort out of knowing that I was able to go on fighting on the same front and in the same cause as other citizens ...
Spiders as Passengers on WWI Airplane
2017-10-05 14:00
He noticed some spiderwebs attached to his struts trailing in his slipstream, not breaking even at speeds of 90 mph.
World War I Aerial Adventure Written by a Pilot
2017-09-16 13:43
Real adventure stories are few and far between, and hardly ever happen to the same person...except in a very few periods in history involving exceptional circumstances and exceptional people, such as ...
The Red Baron Foretells the Future of Aviation
2017-08-26 13:21
People also laughed fifty years ago when they were told someone would fly over Berlin. I remember the excitement in the year 1910 when Count Zeppelin first came to Berlin, and now the Berliners scarce...
Happy 100th Birthday to Jenny (JN4)
2017-08-25 11:32
The venerable JN4 Jenny wasn't a maneuverable exciting fighter like the Dr.I, Camel, or Spad. Compared to them, she was an ungainly, slow and stable aircraft - just the thing to train new pilots how t...
Nazgul, Defence of London, Aerobatics, and Air Forces, Part II
2017-08-09 15:22
"In the vast dog-fights that often developed, air fighting became an affair of fleeting brushes between flights of three or four planes held in tight tactical cohesion, with neither chance nor mood fo...
