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Knights Without Parachutes
A Blog of Great War Stories
Six Non-Combat Ways to Die in WW1 Aviation
2017-06-08 12:59
"It takes some time to fall three miles even at the top speed of a 220-hp engine. The dive kept the blaze away from him, but a backward glance informed Sumner that the fire was eating up the entire le...
How History Got Onto Shirts, and Off Shirts Onto Prints
2017-06-03 12:21
Museums are among Ewan's favorite places to be, and he saw that a lot of small museums had gift shops that couldn't afford items unique to their own museum.
Hire a Farmer to Fix WWI Aircraft
2017-05-26 12:02
If you wanted to be able to fix an airplane 100 years ago, you pretty much needed the skills to build it in the first place; sometimes there wasn't much difference between building and rebuilding. All...
The Von Richthofens Show Off for Their Father
2017-05-23 17:56
The Red Baron greeted his father with "Hello Papa, I have just shot down an Englishman."
Quentin Roosevelt's Sneaky American Tactic
2017-05-09 17:44
An American president is supposed to be just one of the American people, and even more so his son. Realistically, though, the son of a president doesn't get to grow up like other people, and even a hu...
World War 1 Airpower and the Conduct of War
2017-05-08 17:09
And the front-line aviators moved around a lot. One group of squadrons moved to a different airfield three times a month, on average, in 1917. (You can't just return an airplane part, shrug your shoul...
