Posted on 09/08/2020 4:15:46 AM PDT by jacknhoo
Here is some interesting 100+ year old footage of the Red Barron during WWI:
I had a patient who was in his mid-eighties when I bought my practice in 1970. He needed a tooth replaced on his upper full denture. When the lab sent it back for me to give it to him, I asked when hed received this plate. His answer was Right after the war! I said youre not talking 46 are you? He said heck no, I mean in 1919.
I asked how it was that he had every one of his lower teeth in excellent condition but none on top. He asked if I had heard of the Red Baron and then told me that he had the dubious distinction of having been the Barons last victim and when he crashed, the control stick knocked out most of his upper teeth, thus the full upper denture.
He told me what you all may have missed when they were working on the engine!!! If you watch it again you will see that the propeller AND the engine rotate together. He said there was no throttle..... just a kill button to stop the engine as needed to descend then it would start up again. Notice them squirting oil on the valve stems I would guess, prior to spinning the prop.
The following is a very rare piece of film, 99 years old. It shows Baron Von Richthofen, doing an external prior to a mission, as well as his putting on a flying suit prior to flight in cold weather. If you look close you will notice Hermann Goering.
The Aussies claim that one of their machine gunners on the ground shot the Baron down on 4 June 1915
To think this film is over 100 years old!
Now that's a warrior!
Thanks. Bookmark.
Hence the brand name, "Castrol". Popular in pre-WW2 British cars.
I hate Auto incorrect... Take is supposed to be FAKE!!
Western Canada is full of warriors, and the way things are looking, some people will find out soon enough. Guys like Billy are alive and well.
That was a off topic, but the left is pushing hard for it.
A friend recently told me that shes a distant relative to Von Richthofen. She said they have some family heirlooms that belonged to him along with the paperwork to prove it.
Look up John Tyler grandsons.
The 10th POTUS has two living grandsons.
Hell, I was expecting to see a picture of John McCain
Thanks Red Badger. Irrelevant sidebar: I vaguely recall a documentary interview with an American pilot of WWI; sometime after the war he'd gone to a museum and found his very plane on display. He got excited and crawled on up into the pilot seat. Museum guards and so on hustled over to kick him out, but after he told them his story, they not only let him stay, they hired him. :^)
AH. I remember those! I think there was another by a company called SPI that came with a magazine
I read that the High Commands on both sides wouldn’t allow pilots parachutes even though Balloon observers had them. The reason or so I read was that the High Commands thought “no man would go up in a plane to fight and stay to keep fighting if they had a safe way (parachute) to leave the plsne”.
Hmmmm...I wonder how many of them in High Command had actually had experience going up in those things...
Sigh. WWI seems to be a case in point of poor leadership and bad decisions.
10, 20,30, 40, 50 or more, the bloody Red Baron was rolling up the score .....
Snoopy V.S. The Red Baron -- by The Royal Guardsman
Nice!!
I was working up the sorted version of the ggg keyword (literally ggg, not godsgravesglyphs) and found these:
Interesting!
Now that was funny - and the last time I was wrong was about an hour ago.. Sheesh!
To be fair I was 12 then and didn’t know much of anything. Now I know even less heh.
Crap, Buddy - you’re a youngster!
Young enough to have another go at the commies, just say when heh.
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