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Knights Without Parachutes
A Blog of Great War Stories
Who Shot the Red Baron?
2018-04-21 00:20
So if Richthofen had been injured that badly in the air, the tri-plane would have been crashing out of control. The evidence instead suggests a forced landing, but a landing.
Twelve Aviation Originals
2017-12-23 16:26
After all, Kitty Hawk was not the first flight, nor the first heavier-than-air flight, nor the first powered, controlled flight. But if you just say the Wright brothers flew the first thing we now cal...
Rickenbacker's Revenge
2017-10-14 14:11
"Instead they found a mudhole and a tough Swiss-German engineer with a grammar-school education and the grubbiest of chores for them to perform. They made sarcastic comments both behind my back and to...
Return of the Red Baron
2017-09-08 13:34
Failing to recognize this new and lasting symbol of the Red Baron could be deadly. Richthofen's sixtieth victory on 2 September had included an observer who, thinking he was seeing an approaching Sopw...
The Colorado Cowboy Ace and His Great Friend "Rick" von Richthofen
2017-07-28 15:05
"[Richthofen] and I are close personal friends, that every other Wednesday I land near a woods by Arras, where we have lunch with three of his pet ladies, then he escorts me back across my lines towar...
The Red Baron Flunked His Test Flight and 9 Other Facts
2016-07-25 16:01
An uncle of the Red Baron was an early developer in Denver and built Richthofen Castle there.
