The skies over the Western Front during World War I were busy. The Red Baron and crew would have met with the Lafayette ...
Manfred von Richthofen, aka the "Red Baron," was the highest-scoring fighter pilot of World War I. In 20 months of combat, he officially shot down 80 enemy aircraft, including 21 planes in the ...
The Fokker Dr.I, known as The Red Baron's plane, was iconic but not impressive, with a history of crashes. It had supreme maneuverability due to its three wings but was outclassed by other planes ...
Like the Kennedy assassination, the death of Manfred von Richthofen is clouded ... with his battery's downing of a German airplane the day after the Baron's death in a slightly different location.
In 1877, a Prussian geographer named Baron von Richthofen (grandfather of the World War I flying ace the ‘Red Baron’) was given the task of planning a railway line between Berlin and Beijing ...