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.

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 ...

AMHERST, N.H. (AP) -- A section of fabric taken from a "Red Baron" fighter plane is being offered at ... The style of cross was prevalent on German Air Service aircraft at the time. It comes from the ...

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 ...

Aviation buffs can climb into the seats of historic war planes, including the Tico Belle, as Valiant Air Command hosts Open Cockpit Day on March 15.

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 ...

NARRATOR: April 20 th, 1918: In the skies over northern France, Allied and German fighter aircraft ... Red Baron, takes off with a formation of Fokker Dr 1 fighters. Meanwhile, a British Royal Air ...

An eyewitness report going up for auction states that the World War I flying ace known as the Red Baron was shot down from the ground, not just from the air ... anti-aircraft machine-gun company ...

It's never been clear why the World War I German flying ace dubbed the Red Baron took the chances that got him killed one spring day in 1918. Now two retired U.S. Air Force psychologists think ...