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Knights Without Parachutes
A Blog of Great War Stories
December 1917 Air War - Ring Out the Old, Ring In the New
2017-12-16 16:18
As the winter deepens, air traffic slows down. There is much rain and snow. Even on dry days the heavy clouds drift so low that no takeoffs are ordered. We sit around in our rooms.
Overview of WWI Aviation on the 99th Anniversary of Armistice Day
2017-11-10 14:39
Raoul Lufbery was famous by this point and thus was avoiding the public more than ever. His hobbies were picking wild mushrooms and playing with the squadron mascot lions Whiskey and Soda.
Rickenbacker's Revenge
2017-10-14 14:11
"Instead they found a mudhole and a tough Swiss-German engineer with a grammar-school education and the grubbiest of chores for them to perform. They made sarcastic comments both behind my back and to...
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 ...
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...
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...
