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Knights Without Parachutes
A Blog of Great War Stories
Now Entering the Final Year of the First Air War
2017-11-18 15:00
By the fall of 1918, the fortunes of German ground forces would be declining, but the German air force would have some of its best months of the war. September 1918 would show more downed Allied aircr...
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.
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."
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
2017-08-05 15:13
The unprepared government reacted to bombers over the undefended capital city with the common politician’s response of decreeing something and assuming reality will adjust itself to the decree.
Teaching History to the Young and Uninterested
2017-07-07 14:36
See this propeller? The pilot could turn the airplane straight up and have the airplane hanging from the propeller, and it would stay there and not fall down. Unless the engine quit.
