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Knights Without Parachutes
A Blog of Great War Stories
7 Worthy Opponent Qualities: Why the Red Baron Fascinates
2016-08-03 16:10
My opponent waved to me quite cheerfully as we were at a thousand meters altitude as if to say: ‘Well, well, how do you do?’"
The Red Baron Flunked His Test Flight and 9 Other Facts
2016-07-25 16:01
An uncle of the Red Baron was an early developer in Denver and built Richthofen Castle there.
Can Dropouts Fit in with Ivy League Pilots?
2016-07-21 15:56
It would have been easy for Kindley to feel defensive about his educational background, and it would have been easy for the Ivy Leaguers to assume he wouldn't be able to uphold the same standards they...
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...)
