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Knights Without Parachutes
A Blog of Great War Stories
Some Brit Shot Down the Red Baron
2017-03-08 21:28
When Richthofen kept to his answer, the officer decided he had a braggart on his hands. Later on, the officer saw Richthofen was wearing a Pour le Merite ("Blue Max") medal, and "speechless with aston...
Elliott White Springs - Great Pilot, Clever Writer, You Wouldn't Want Him With Your Daughter
2017-03-02 21:22
Some of his quotes were clear premonitions of his impending death...except that, to his surprise, he lived, spoiling the romantic tragedy. To everyone else's surprise, when his father died he stopped ...
Hero of World War 1 Aviation - Wilbert White
2017-02-23 21:11
Wilbert White wanted to go to war. At least, he thought he ought to. His wife, unsurprisingly, didn't want him to, and presumably neither did his little boy and girl.
Popular Reading for the 1913 Teenager
2017-02-11 21:00
The picture on the cover shows an airship not so different from what had flown at Kitty Hawk 10 years previously. But five years later, an American boy who had read the book in 1913 could have been fl...
Popping Balloons in World War 1
2017-02-08 20:54
The way to shoot down a balloon was with incendiary bullets, if the gas would ignite, which wasn't certain.
9 Spectacular Ways to Die in World War 1 Aviation
2017-02-01 20:49
The Allies felt that parachutes could cause a pilot to abandon a plane while it could still be saved, and planes were in shorter supply than pilots.
