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Knights Without Parachutes
A Blog of Great War Stories
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...
Twelve Days of Aerial Combat
2016-12-23 15:30
And one Nieuport in a pine tree.
Dawn Patrol Report - Lufbery, Nungesser and More
2016-10-13 13:57
The real pilots, not needing to do so to save their lives in actual battle, did not do maneuvers as aggressive as the RC aircraft.
Mission: Dawn Patrol - Dayton 2016!
2016-09-28 13:44
This year, the biennial airshow is commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Lafayette Escadrille.
7 Outstanding Qualities of World War 1 Pilots
2016-08-25 12:49
Loved flying - well, obviously. But it's not actually so obvious. These men came of age along with flying. At the time people were asking them as small boys what they wanted to grow up to be, piloting...
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.
