It also marks the first plane famous for air-to-air combat---famous enough to end up in Peanuts along with the Red Baron, the arch-nemesis of Snoopy and his Sopwith Camel biplane.

On this day in 1916, Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen, the legendary `Red Baron' of World War 1, shot down his first allied aircraft over ... a decade earlier. As Air & Space notes, "by the end ...

They didn't know the airplane's very shape generated drag that ... According to Leon Bennett, whose book Three Wings for the Red Baron explores the triplane phenomenon at length, a German ...

A head wound suffered by Manfred von Richthofen - the Red Baron - the year ... pilot over enemy lines. "The baron violated the basic principles set forth in the air combat operations manual ...

A German immigrant named Gustave Whitehead reportedly flew a heavier-than-air, powered airplane over Fairfield ... Richthofen — better known as the Red Baron — to fame. Chivalry in the ...

And it wasn't an ordinary enemy aircraft ... Red Baron. Although still early in his career, the ruthless Richthofen had already established an awesome reputation as the German air force's supreme ...

A plane-mad engineer has spent five years and £50,000 building a perfect replica of the Red ... for Air. It was in aerial combat with the allies - and flying a Fokker DR1 - that the Baron would ...

World War I air battle depicting a Canadian ... The German World War One flying ace known as the Red Baron was shot down from the ground rather than by another plane, according to a witness ...

In between now and Dayton, you might catch Holland tinkering with his Red Baron plane. “The old saying is you never finish a scale airplane,” he said. “That’s the old joke because there ...