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Knights Without Parachutes
A Blog of Great War Stories
How Eugene Bullard Learned to Fly Chicken Coops
2017-04-20 10:47
"In those days, when aviation was young, the planes we flew were known as 'chicken coops' or as the French called them, 'cages a poules.' Many of them were held together with wire and heavy glue."
100th Anniversary of US Entry into World War 1
2017-04-05 10:36
Eddie Rickenbacker, having toured the US as a race car celebrity explaining why we should be in the war, around this time almost died from a nicked artery during a tonsillectomy, and then tried to exp...
Observations From a Fighter Pilot Without a Parachute
2017-03-30 21:49
"To the soldiery bound to the slime and carnage of the trenches the occupants of the glinting specks duelling high in the heavens were as beings of another world."
Some Brit Shot Down the Red Baron
2017-03-08 21:28
When Richthofen kept to his answer, the officer decided he had a braggart on his hands. Later on, the officer saw Richthofen was wearing a Pour le Merite ("Blue Max") medal, and "speechless with aston...
Elliott White Springs - Great Pilot, Clever Writer, You Wouldn't Want Him With Your Daughter
2017-03-02 21:22
Some of his quotes were clear premonitions of his impending death...except that, to his surprise, he lived, spoiling the romantic tragedy. To everyone else's surprise, when his father died he stopped ...
Hero of World War 1 Aviation - Wilbert White
2017-02-23 21:11
Wilbert White wanted to go to war. At least, he thought he ought to. His wife, unsurprisingly, didn't want him to, and presumably neither did his little boy and girl.
