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Knights Without Parachutes
A Blog of Great War Stories
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...
Birdstrikes and Other Hazards of World War 1 Aviation
2017-03-23 21:43
There were often nonindigenous species hanging around the field that weren't - exactly - wild: the pilot mascots such as Raoul Lufbery's lion cubs (and cubs don't stay little any more than kittens do....
9 Spectacular Ways to Die in World War 1 Aviation
2017-02-01 20:49
The Allies felt that parachutes could cause a pilot to abandon a plane while it could still be saved, and planes were in shorter supply than pilots.
One Hundred Years Ago Today Was Raoul Lufbery's Sixth Victory
2016-12-27 15:35
By the end of his life his confirmed victory tally was 16, but his own tally was 75 victories, and those who knew him believed the higher total - and that trust in his word was itself an honor not eve...
Did Anyone Ever Know Raoul Lufbery? Notes from Dawn Patrol Rendezvous
2016-12-05 15:00
In those days, a man with an aircraft, and his mechanic, were treated like royalty, and Mark became Raoul's very best friend - the only man who might have been able to claim to know him.
SPAD XIII T-Shirt and Mutiny on the Bounty
2016-11-29 14:51
They were more impressive by far than any other airplane, any other automobile, any other piece of equipment I had ever seen. This new Spad would mean the difference between life and death.
