Knights Without Parachutes

A Blog of Great War Stories

Popping Balloons in World War 1
2017-02-08 20:54 The way to shoot down a balloon was with incendiary bullets, if the gas would ignite, which wasn't certain.
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.
Rain and Frederick Libby's First Victory
2017-01-27 20:42 Libby was trained for 30 minutes on how to use a machine gun, then he was shown how to use the gun in the airplane, then sent up in the airplane to try it. The instructor forgot to tell him how to cha...
James Norman Hall, the SPAD, and the Bounty
2017-01-02 15:38 James Norman Hall bicycled from London to Scotland to meet his favorite author but was afraid to knock on the door when he got there.
Twelve Days of Aerial Combat
2016-12-23 15:30 And one Nieuport in a pine tree.
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.

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