Wings
“Aeroplanes were small and flimsy and the numbers involved in the fighting were small. It was possible for the participants to make some sense of it – unlike the nightmarish clash of steel and high explosive shaking the ground below them.
The combatants fought at close quarters. At the end of an aerial duel the protagonists might be only a few yards apart. Writing to his parents shortly after his arrival in France in February 1916, Albert Ball described an encounter with an Albatros, one of ...the sleek and powerful machines that were now consistently out-performing their enemies: ‘The interesting point about it was that we could see the Huns’ faces and they could see ours, we were so near.’1 Aviators could identify an opponent by his flying style. Later the German aces advertised themselves by painting their aircraft gaudy colours: blood-red for Manfred von Richtofen, a disciple of Oswald Boelcke, who had witnessed Boelcke’s banal death in a mid-air collision with a friendly aircraft, and inherited his crown as Germany’s top ace.MoreLess
The combatants fought at close quarters. At the end of an aerial duel the protagonists might be only a few yards apart. Writing to his parents shortly after his arrival in France in February 1916, Albert Ball described an encounter with an Albatros, one of ...the sleek and powerful machines that were now consistently out-performing their enemies: ‘The interesting point about it was that we could see the Huns’ faces and they could see ours, we were so near.’1 Aviators could identify an opponent by his flying style. Later the German aces advertised themselves by painting their aircraft gaudy colours: blood-red for Manfred von Richtofen, a disciple of Oswald Boelcke, who had witnessed Boelcke’s banal death in a mid-air collision with a friendly aircraft, and inherited his crown as Germany’s top ace.MoreLess
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