The Red Baron, WWI. Soldiers examine what remains of Manfred von Richthofen's aircraft after he was shot down, and killed over Vaux-sur-Somme, France, just days before his 26th birthday, but by then already an aviation legend.

➤➤ HIGHER RESOLUTION IMAGE: https://dronescapes.video/RedBaron

One of The Red Baron's triplanes on display, 1935

1 am. it's officially my birthday! My gift to you is this doodle-dump lol

MvR (the Red Baron) in his ridiculous coat

1918 04 21 Feeding on the legend - Russell Smith

Manfred von Richthofen, the highest scoring ace of the First World War, was brought down on April 21, 1918, most likely by Australian gunners. After the crash, MvR's body was removed and his famous all-red triplane, number 425/17, was immediately set upon by souvenir hunters. Many of those souvenirs still exist today. According to witnesses that morning, MvR was alive when he came down. His landing could actually be described as something between a very rough landing and a crash. Witnesses describe seeing Richthofen putting the aircraft into a sideslip as if to land but then bringing it down very hard at the last moment. It bounced back into the air and climbed a few feet before finally stalling and crashing. The undercarriage was then ripped off and the propeller and port side wings were smashed. According to Ernest Tycross, one of the first people on the scene, Richthofen was alive when he reached the aircraft and muttered something to the effect of "Alles kaput" before breathing his last breath. After the war,1st Air mechanic Boxall-Chapman later described what he saw: "The propeller was smashed. So was the three right-hand planes and undercarriage but the three left-hand planes were intact." (sic - Boxall-Chapman was describing the scene as he approached the triplane from the front. Therefore, the smashed right-hand planes that he referred to were actually the port side wings.)

The Red Baron's cameo in Ottoway Volume 2. I might repost this on his birth and death days. Landscapes are my weakness, and bird's eye shots too. Thank George Barbier for the Autumn colour scheme.

Major Isenstein's red 1915 Chevrolet is on the road below.

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Today is Manfred von Richthofen’s birthday!

Known as the Red Baron and, fun fact, he was also born in Silesia!

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This is why I wont get married

"The flying circus and a man from Prussia, The sky and a plane, this man commands his domain, The western front and all the way to Russia"

🔖| The Red Baron - Manfred von Richtofen

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Heard somewhere eddie literally named his plane "blue baron" , he's definitely a fan

Manfred at the funeral of Oswald Boelcke

Martyrs of the Sky Chapter 3 — Part 3

A dog with style 💅

How dare they even take a version without Moritz?

1918 03 12 Lothar von Richthofen victories 28 and 29 - Mark Postlethwaite

On the morning of 12 March 1918, nine Bristol F2B fighter of No 61 Sqn, Royal Flying Corps, were intercepted by a flight of Fokker DrIs of Jasta 11, ... near Le Cateau. The triplanes were led by other than Manfred von Richthofen in DrI 152/17 accompanied by his brother Lothar in DrI 454/17 and Ltn Werner Steinhauser. At 1100 hrs the Fokkers stabbed into the formation Bristols. After watching his brother bring down one of the two-seaters, Lothar looked around for an opponent of his own:

' To that end there was one especially suited for me about 100 meters below the English squadron. I attacked him. I was flying ahead of my Staffel when I suddenly saw that I was surrounded by aircraft with English cockades. I made a long dive of about 100 meters in order to get out of that unpleasant company. One of them followed me down. At the same altitude, we flew toward one another, head-on. We approached each other with the great speed of over 400 km/h. Here, you must aim clean, otherwise you will get the worst of it.

' We rushed towards one another shooting. At the last moment I noticed I had hit him. A blazing aircraft whizzed by me. I pulled my machine around and made such a sharp turn that I was three-quarters on my back. A sea of fire in the form of an English airplane whistled right by me. The observer stood up and stared into the flames. Completely ablaze, the English machine made another turn. Both crewmen jumped out along the way.

In the running battle that followed, Lothar brought down another Bristol ten minutes later, and Steinhauser added one more to bring his personal tally to four. These victories contributed to a total of seven for the day by JG, the most legendary of all German fighter units of World War I