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Posted on 09/08/2020 4:15:46 AM PDT by jacknhoo
When I was still in high school I met an old gentleman who flew Sopwith Camels (he joked that his flying career was very short - only a couple of months before he was shot down and captured). He said the Camel was very difficult to fly for the same reason - massive torque from the likewise rotary engine.
Wow... That was actually pretty cool.
Direct link on youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=XIiuyijwKRs&feature=emb_logo
No parachute, huge cojones.
....I believe the accepted cause of the Red Baron’s death is attributed to a member of an Australian machinegun company, although the argument as to who it really was who shot him down will never be settled...from the Red Baron’s autopsy records, it appears that the fatal shot(s) came from BELOW his aircraft, not from behind it, giving credence to the Aussies’ claim...BTW, you can see the differences between a ROTARY aircraft engine and a RADIAL one....
Probably sexual gratification, trying to make it last.
As a kid I used play the Avalon Hill war games. Reading the historical background sheet in "Richthofen's War", it quoted the baron's war-time autobiography as him saying he "... felt a sudden release ..." after shooting down a plane, along with an editorial comment that apparently the Kaiser's censors hadn't read Freud.
Back in the late 80s or early 90s I read a Reader’s Digest bit that ended with the quote, “I shook the hand of a man who shook the hand of one of America’s Founding Fathers”.
When the writer was a young boy his father took him to an old folks home to meet a man who told him when he was a young boy his father had taken him to meet an old man who had fought in the American Revolution.
I sure do agree. And when those things went down, they were like broken bugs falling fluttering from the sky, not like WWII or later aircraft that you could get out of, and if you couldn’t, you might be able to crash land.
And if you couldn’t get out or crash land, your death was probably going to be pretty quick on impact due to the speed.
I believe that many of those WWI pilots who were shot down were alive after the plane crashed, and suffered grievous injury where they suffered for a while, or burned to death.
Make me shudder to consider it.
Ping
I found it fascinating...like a window into the past!
The mechanics, squirting oil before they turned it over instead of “walking the prop” before starting as they did in some WWII planes...
You might enjoy the WWI Photographs and Colourized Memories Groups on Facebook.
From there you will also be able to find individual contributors databases.
The colour makes a huge difference.
I read where Hermann Goering took command of the squadron after Baron Von Richthofen was killed. Richthofen didn’t like him very much.
red baron ping
I would feel a sudden release too.
I shot the sob down and now the Sob wont kill me.
Thank you.
Darn. I don’t do Facebook. That sounds great. I am a big believer in the power of color to tell a story more effectively.
Loved “They Shall Not Grow Old”. Loved it.
I really like his Pizza!................
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