Manfred von Richthofen, also known as the Red Baron, is one of the most famous fighter aces from WWI with 80 kills. Labeling someone a "fighter ace" refers to a military pilot with five or more ...

Thanks for that. Ian McMillan reads and analyses Wilfred Owen’s poem Dulce et Decorum Est, and asks: do we misunderstand WW1 because we focus on poems like Owen's? WW1: Why was the first day of ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Great Pilots Great Pilots is a fun 2D side scrolling retro airplane combat game set in WWI. Fly a wide array of historically authentic aircraft in ...

An "incredibly rare" collection of items belonging to a World War One pilot have been found inside a barn. The discovery of Lt Stuart Leslie's memorabilia in Leicestershire has "flabbergasted" a ...

Alexander Kazakov survived the Great War safely, but the Civil War that broke out after it in Russia literally broke him. Alexander Kazakov was a truly unique pilot. Firstly, he won 32 aerial ...

Girlguiding group Brownies has launched an aviation badge as part of a campaign to encourage more women to become pilots. To earn the badge, Brownies will have to perform aeronautical experiments ...

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The invention of the airplane shook the globe, and it never looked the same again. The most famous pilot of his generation epitomized the “right stuff.” ...

The FE2 was a two-seater with the observer sitting in the nose of the nacelle and the pilot sitting above and behind. The observer was armed with one .303 Lewis Machine Gun firing forward.

Larson sets comics in the midst of medieval battle, the Revolutionary War, WWI and even the Trojan War. Gary Larson admits ...

sending debris plummeting off the coast of South Carolina and calling attention to a famous WWI pilot. The operation over the weekend brought a dramatic end to a days-long public saga during which ...

“The pilot, Randy Mysliviec ... off around 11:50 a.m. and encountered trouble at 12:13 p.m., according to the Observer’s news partner WSOC. The plane made a loop around Lake Norman just ...