VALLEY CITY, N.D. – The Red Baron is back in the skies. Brothers Paul and Jarrod Lindemann have restored a 1941 Stearman biplane that was part of the Red Baron Squadron, an aerobatic team that ...
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Why Did Some Old Planes Have Three Wings?
The triplane will forever be remembered as an icon of early aviation—thanks in large part to Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen, better known as the “Red Baron.” Today, more than a century after ...
The Queen City looks fantastic from nearly any angle when soaring about 2,000 feet above her doing a 360-degree roll in a 1942 open-cockpit Stearman biplane. Piloted by former crop-duster Travis Aukes ...
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The Red Baron's deadly afternoon: How one ace changed the sky forever
Discover the shocking story of Manfred von Richthofen, the Red Baron, and his devastating air victories on March 27, 1918. From misidentified aircraft to deadly precision, learn how this legendary ...
And he explained why while nonchalantly navigating his vintage 1941 double-winged, open cockpit biplane through the overcast skies between Gary and Chicago. "When I escape the ground, I escape ...
Diminutive and nimble, the Fokker Dr.1 was Germany’s answer to the British Sopwith Triplane during the Great War over the skies of Europe, and was a favored mount of one of history’s most famous aces.
OCEAN CITY — Since she first spotted the shiny "Red Baron" biplane at the Cape May County Airport in the 1950s, Eleanor Hans dreamed of going for a ride. Imagine, she thought, how exciting it would be ...
They fly like a dream, but not like the word usually means – not a smooth, comfortable, ride with drink service and a lavatory. To fly in a Boeing Stearman biplane is to live a kid’s dream of breaking ...
From the ground, the engine sounds like a mad hornet. Up, and up, and up — and up! For a moment, the WWII-era biplane — painted an iconic shade of red — seems to hang motionless, glittering in the sun ...
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