The Red Fighter Pilot: The Autobiography of the Red Baron. Translated by J. Ellis Barker.
by von Richthofen, Manfred
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St. Petersburg, Florida: Red and Black Publishers, 2007. Octavo, softbound (red photo. illus. wrappers), 159 pp. Fine. From lower cover: The autobiograhy of the “Red Baqron,” Manfred von Richthofen, written shortly before his death in April 1918. New introduction gives a brief history of the birth of aerial combat. From Introduction: On December 17, 1903, two bicycle manufacturers from Dayton, Ohio, stood on a windy beach at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, and tossed a coin. While the winner, Orville Wright, positioned himself inside a flimsy machine, made of wood and cloth, his brother Wilbur started up their homemade gasoline engine. Moments later, the rickety contraption rolled along a metal guide rail, then, as it gained speed, it left the ground and flew about ten feet above the sand for twelve seconds, covering a distance of 120 feet. The age of flight had begun. A new type of combat had also been born, thought the world’s leading military establishments were not quick to see it. It wasn’t until 1909 that the first military airplane was flown; the Wright Military Flyer could hold two people and carry them aloft for an hour, at a speed of 40 miles per hour. The US Army used the airplanes for aerial reconnaissance. Although the first workable airplane had been produced in the United States, however, the most advanced work in aeronautics was done in France. In the years immediately following the Wright brothers’ flight, so many airplanes were being designed and flown in France, by people like Alberto Samos-Dumont, Gabriel Voisin, Louis Bleriot, and Henri Fabre, that most modern aeronautical terms (such as fuselage, aileron, and nacelle) are of French origin. On July 25, 1909, Bleriot flew a Model XI version of his airplane across the English Channel from France to Britain, and military leaders around the world were forced to realize that, in future wars, not even an island surrounded by the world’s strongest Navy was immune to being reached a potential enemy...
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- Title
- The Red Fighter Pilot: The Autobiography of the Red Baron. Translated by J. Ellis Barker.
- Author
- von Richthofen, Manfred
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Red and Black Publishers, 2007.
- Place of Publication
- St. Petersburg, Florida
- Date Published
- 2007
- Keywords
- Aviation, Military History, Pilot Biography, World War I, WWI, First World War.
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Dade City, Florida
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