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World War I aviation really doesn't get enough credit, and I created this post purely for us to discuss our thoughts on the best fighter pilot of the Great war, the German Red Baron!
-Oskar
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Greetings everyone, it's me again! *groans*
World War I aviation really doesn't get enough credit, and I created this post purely for us to discuss our thoughts on the best fighter pilot of the Great war, the German Red Baron!
-Oskar
Welcome to the forum!
http://www.ww2aircraft.net/forum/wor...ron-25432.html (Red Baron....)
http://www.ww2aircraft.net/forum/air...aft-30056.html (The Red Baron and his Aircraft)
http://www.ww2aircraft.net/forum/wor...aron-3887.html (Who do you think shot down the Red Baron?)
http://www.ww2aircraft.net/forum/wor...day-17984.html (91 Years Ago Today!)
"If you can read this, thank a teacher. If it's English, thank a soldier!"
Seeing as he has been mentioned here I'd just recommend the film 'The Red Baron' of 2008, I thoroughly enjoyed it (along with Flyboys of the same year about the Lafayette Escadrille).
I don't know if this has been brought up before but here's a topic to gross-out to.......early engines running on Castor oils (and so burning them & surrounding the pilots in the fumes), not only did those poor sods have to suffer the terrifying possibilities of fighting (with no parachutes) each other in relatively flimsy planes but the planes themselves by virtue of the engines could cause serious, er, 'trouser accidents' thanks to the castor oils used.
Lovely huh?
Originally Posted by Njaco
Woah, I'm happy you guys appreciate all the awesomeness the Red Baron let off during those 4 tough years!
File under "Fiction."
Maj. Dietrich Puttfarken II./KG 51
Well to be fair it's not really the historical accuracy I was interested in as much as some beautiful air-to-air film of those old birds in their natural element (even if a lot of it is scale replicas, models, CGI or other planes dressed up to fake the part).
Congrats, Gixx, seldom is the constant explosive diarrhea and abdominal cramps mentioned. one of the reasons so much drinking went on. the castor bean is very difficult to harvest causing severe health problems and producing the oil releases a very toxic compound. Mussolini force-fed dissenters large quantities of castor oil as a means of control.
Motivated, Dedicated, Lethal
Ricin is made from the castor bean, just eating castor beans can kill you. Though the posion is partly broke down by stomach acids.
Ooh, I watched the Red Baron, beautiful film. Although, I expected more dogfights and less romance...
This is much more amusing...
Blackadder Goes Forth: Home Economics - YouTube
John
Eternal vigilance
Oh man, it just keeps on getting better and better, huh?
Those poor buggers.
LMAO
I read somewhere that Roy Brown, the Camel pilot initially credited with shooting Richtofen down had piles!
On the subject of hero worship, the Aviation Heritage Centre at Omaka (Peter Jackson's museum) has a diorama of Richtofen's triplane being looted by the Aussie troops. This was torn from the wreck.
The RAAF Museum at Point Cook also has fragments of the triplane.
Which part of "NO" do you not understand?
Thats a bit macabre.
"If you can read this, thank a teacher. If it's English, thank a soldier!"
Especially the blood trickling out of his mouth. The guy stealing his boots comes from an anecdote I'm not sure of the origin of. They survive at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra together as a pair after being separated for some time.
Which part of "NO" do you not understand?
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