ULTRA-RARE footage of the most famous fighter pilot ever

Komando picks ^ | June 10 2015 | Unknown

[Chainmail]

I wish it was Billy: that man was a stone killer and if I remember correctly, his comment about Richtofen's death was "I hope he roasted all the way down".

Now that's a warrior!

[Magnum44]

Thanks. Bookmark.

[jonascord]

"Of many interesting tidbits about the rotary aircraft engines I actually remember, they used castor bean oil, still a very good lubricant."

Hence the brand name, "Castrol". Popular in pre-WW2 British cars.

[Deplorable American1776]

I hate Auto incorrect... Take is supposed to be FAKE!!

[Bulwyf]

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.

[dainbramaged]

Great piece of history - my paternal grandfather (1899-1949) whom I never met spent a few years in the Army Air Corps as a fly-along mechanic in de Havilland 4Bs, with the 6th Pursuit Squadron stationed at Luke Field in Hawaii.
On October 30, 1922 his biplane collided with another aircraft and crashed into Pearl Harbor - the pilot (1st Lt. V.T. Hynes) was killed, and grandpa spent a few months in the hospital.

[cyclotic]

A friend recently told me that she’s a distant relative to Von Richthofen. She said they have some family heirlooms that belonged to him along with the paperwork to prove it.

[cyclotic]

Look up John Tyler grandsons.

The 10th POTUS has two living grandsons.

[SMM48]

ULTRA-RARE footage of the most famous fighter pilot ever

Hell, I was expecting to see a picture of John McCain

[SunkenCiv]

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. :^)

[Mr Radical]

AH. I remember those! I think there was another by a company called SPI that came with a magazine

[Reily]

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”.

[rlmorel]

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.

[JesusIsLord]

Don’t forget the song, Snoopy vs. the Red Baron https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtJ1Gnh9wPU

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!!

[SunkenCiv]

I was working up the sorted version of the ggg keyword (literally ggg, not godsgravesglyphs) and found these:

• Did injured brain betray Red Baron? [2004]
• Red Baron brought down by a shot fired the previous year [2004]

[BenLurkin]

Interesting!

[Chainmail]

Now that was funny - and the last time I was wrong was about an hour ago.. Sheesh!

[Bulwyf]

To be fair I was 12 then and didn’t know much of anything. Now I know even less heh.

[Chainmail]

Crap, Buddy - you’re a youngster!

[Bulwyf]

Young enough to have another go at the commies, just say when heh.