They didn't know the airplane's very shape generated drag that hampered its performance. NASM The “flying machine,” born only a decade before World War I ... Even though Baron Manfred von ...

Fighter aircraft ... of WWI, Rittmeister (Captain; equivalent of Hauptmann in most Imperial Germany Army branches) Baron Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen, better known as the Red Baron.

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 ...

Stephen Tyson, in a letter to his father dated May 1, 1918, ten weeks before he was shot down Long before the U.S. entered World War I in April ... Richthofen, the "Red Baron"—often as not ...