2017-10-27 14:19 Anyone who would go two miles up in a crate with wings would probably not be overly intimidated by playing with a lion. It might seem like pretty much the same activity.

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...

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."

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 ...

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...

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.