Knights Without Parachutes

A Blog of Great War Stories

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 ...
Teaching History to the Young and Uninterested
2017-07-07 14:36 See this propeller? The pilot could turn the airplane straight up and have the airplane hanging from the propeller, and it would stay there and not fall down. Unless the engine quit.
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...
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...
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."

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