The War In The Air

By: Nathan Green-Stacey

Dogfights• Meeting between warning

aircrafts often became deadly

• Being shot could lead to instant death

• Pilots couldn’t carry parachutes [might have to bail out]

• Officers wanted to save planes

• Planes were called flying coffins

• Leading ace Royal Flying Corps Canadian was Billy Bishop

The Red Baron’s last fight

• Wilfrid [Wop] in trail to die

• Brown ended up killing a German pilot

• Recently Australia called claim

• Maintain Red Baron close ground chasing Brown’s plane

• Germans in to mourning death of soldier

Billy Bishop [considered hero]

• Member of British empire in Red Baron 1894-1956

• Canada’s greatest flying hero WWI

• Earned Victoria cross which is the highest award of bravery under fire

• Entered the cavalry officer

• Brave and gifted fighter and pilot

• Record 72 kills• First month front downed

17 enemy aircrafts• 5 down one attack alone

The Technical Edge• [young Lester .B. Pearson

lived future Prime Minister]• Aircraft design not advanced

greatly until WWI• Travel only 150 km/hr• Single seat cockpits• Soldiers brought other

weaponry for better attack• Then machinegun mounted on

plane• Problem bullets hit moving

propellers• British designed mounted gun

behind pilot• French top of planes wing• Germans through propellers

with out hitting them