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Sopwith Pup will lead 100th birthday tribute to its creator

... the Camel. The Camel gained a legendary reputation, one flown by Roy Brown being responsible for shooting down the Red Baron, von Richthofen. After the war Sopwith liquidated his company, only to torm a new partnership with Harry Hawker. By the time of the ...

Published: Monday 18 January 1988
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 563 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Fighter £90,000 ace's V.C. raises for children

... had seemed impregnable. Lt. Robinson was shot down in France while attacking a group of aircraft led by the Red Baron Manfred von Richthofen in 1917. He was taken prisoner and made several attempts to escape. After the armistice he was sent back to England ...

Published: Wednesday 23 November 1988
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 283 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

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... which a walled garden is restored and worked as it was 100 years ago. TIMEWATCH. Two men behind their myths: the Red Baron, Manfred von Richthofen, the air pilot who died in 1918; and, 700 years earlier, William Marshal, England's greatest medieval knight ...

Published: Wednesday 11 November 1987
Newspaper: Derby Daily Telegraph
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: | Words: 1492 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

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... capturing the Red Baron. Over the last six months engineer Derek Barnes—with the help of some friends—has built a full-size static replica of one of seven Fokker DRI triplane fighters known to have been used by the German ace Manfred von Richthofen (the Red ...

Published: Thursday 21 April 1988
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Advertisement | Words: 155 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

THE DEADLY DENTIST

... amply states, though for some of the time only smoulderingly. Also on this programme is THE RED BARON, in which John Phillip Law plays Baron von Richthofen, whose squadron of planes accounted for many British opponents in World War One, and who was ...

Published: Friday 21 January 1972
Newspaper: Leicester Chronicle
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: | Words: 689 | Page: 22 | Tags: none

Albert Ball, Vt.: 'A schoolboy doing a man's job'

... but two No 11 men sion g uls t: 4: t 4 n g l : . fg s ll s Ti l d a Germany's 'Red Baron', Manfred the Baron's score before he in the Royal Flying Corps , and to Von Richthofen who, without any returned. As luck had it, orders He scraped throug h however ...

Published: Friday 28 January 1972
Newspaper: Leicester Chronicle
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: | Words: 1953 | Page: 21 | Tags: none