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Knights Without Parachutes
A Blog of Great War Stories
How to Fall Out of Your Airplane and Survive
2016-07-14 13:41
It's a true story. But the drawing for Ripley's Believe It or Not "Luckiest Man Alive" is slightly mythical. Captain Hedley, as an observer with no seatbelt, did indeed both fall out of his plane and ...
How to Attract Weird and Colorful Pilots: Lafayette Escadrille
2016-07-11 13:36
These were the men whose wild living, exotic pets (lion cubs), hunting skills (more important in a fight than aerobatic skills), and willingness to sit in a wood-and-wire crate two or three miles up (...
How to Become a Pilot
2016-07-05 12:29
Field Kindley, an ace who would probably have been one of the major names in USAF history (doesn't hurt to start with a memorable name that could easily be reversed to name an airfield...)
Fighter Pilots, Homebuilt Aircraft, and Great War Stories
2016-07-01 16:30
The more we learned the more we thought that other people should know about the Parks family and their collection.
