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Knights Without Parachutes
A Blog of Great War Stories
Ernst Udet on Chivalry in the Air
2017-09-23 13:52
"We continue to twist and turn. Beautiful flying if the stakes weren't so high. I never had such a tactically agile opponent. For seconds, I forget that the man across from me is Guynemer, my enemy."
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 Red Baron Foretells the Future of Aviation
2017-08-26 13:21
People also laughed fifty years ago when they were told someone would fly over Berlin. I remember the excitement in the year 1910 when Count Zeppelin first came to Berlin, and now the Berliners scarce...
Nazgul, Defence of London, Aerobatics, and Air Forces, Part II
2017-08-09 15:22
"In the vast dog-fights that often developed, air fighting became an affair of fleeting brushes between flights of three or four planes held in tight tactical cohesion, with neither chance nor mood fo...
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's Head Wound
2017-07-14 14:42
"My thick Richthofen head once again proved itself"
