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Knights Without Parachutes
A Blog of Great War Stories
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...
Happy 100th Birthday to Jenny (JN4)
2017-08-25 11:32
The venerable JN4 Jenny wasn't a maneuverable exciting fighter like the Dr.I, Camel, or Spad. Compared to them, she was an ungainly, slow and stable aircraft - just the thing to train new pilots how t...
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...
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.
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...
British Pronunciation Guide to World War 1
2017-07-19 15:00
Hall had pronounced Ypres the French way “which put me under suspicion as a ‘swanker.’”
