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Saab’s aviation link

... aviation link the Bavarian compan{s aircraft origins. It was building aeroplane engines to the satisfaction of the Red Baron (von Richthofen) and powerh;g successive tions of Fokker planes filore high?erformance .cars became its main preoccupation. German ...

Published: Friday 01 February 1985
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 134 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

DAVID MERCER

... catch-as-catchcan against the Hun, sometimes to the audible cheers of the troops massed below. The legendary Red Baron — Manfred von Richthofen — is seen a: a cold~blood’e:lmliull§r. devoid of imagination the possessor of a particularlv. nasty sense of ...

Published: Saturday 18 February 1978
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 91 | Page: 19 | Tags: none

BBC-2

... 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: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 216 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

Red Baron’s fall from health

... Red Baron’s fall from health EEK after week the WRed Baron always gets the best of Snoopy in Charles M Schulz’s famous comic strip, but the real life exploits of Manfred von Richthofen were no laughing matter. According to a new biography the German flying ...

Published: Sunday 20 November 1994
Newspaper: Scotland on Sunday
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 195 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

Red Baron’s cross goes under hammer in London

... Red Baron’s cross goes under hammer in London THE LEGEND of the “Red Baron”, the most famous fi%l:ter ace of all time, still lives g:arters of a century after his 2 Dol A Cross painted on the side of Manfred von Richthofen’s red Fokker triplane is expected ...

Published: Wednesday 16 November 1994
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 297 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

‘MAN ‘'WHO FOUGHT . RED ‘BARON: DIES

... ‘MAN ‘'WHO FOUGHT . RED ‘BARON: DIES Group-Captain John lfim vhom down. 21 German aircraft in 11 months in the First World War, has died at Bexhiil, Sussex. He was 82. ¥ His “score™ was one of the w‘h&t on either side and was jleved while he was a patrol ...

Published: Tuesday 31 August 1971
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 78 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Red Baron fantasy of a cruel deceiver

... claimed. at times that he was: - O The great-grandson .of the First World War German flying -ace’ Baron Manfred von Richthofen, the Red Baron. - O Disowned by his father for joinin;‘thé RAF. ‘O Discharged from the RAF after-a_flying accident which put_himi_in: ...

Published: Thursday 23 July 1992
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 227 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Von Richthofen rekindles memories ‘Uncle Manfred’

... Von Richthofen rekindles memories ‘Uncle Manfred’ HIS Excellency Baron Hermann von Richthofen, Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany paid his first visit to Scotland and rekindled memories of a leie‘ndary figure — the Red Baron, wartime air ace ...

Published: Saturday 22 April 1989
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 487 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

Anniversaries

... 1859 Jerome K Jerome, humorous writer; 1860 Theodor Herzl, founder of Zionism; 1892 Baron Manfred von Richthofen, German air ace known as Red Baron; 1904 Bing Crosby, singer and film actor. Deaths: 1519 Leonardo da Vinci, artist and man of science; 1964 ...

Published: Tuesday 02 May 1995
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 71 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

NOW and THEN 21 APRIL

... diplomat and Irish patriot, landed in Ireland by German submarine to aid Egster Rising. , 1918: Manfred von Richthofen, better known as the Red Baron, scourge of First World War British fliers, was killed when shot down in his red Fokker tri-plane. © 1952: ...

Published: Wednesday 21 April 1993
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 76 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

Anniversaries

... Russia; 1859 Jerome K Jerome, humorous writer; 1860 Theodor Herzl, founder of Zionism; 1892 Baron Manfred von Richthofen German air ace known as Red Baron; 1895 Lorenz Hart, lyricist; dl?_(l)-t Bing Crosby, singer and film actor. &-ths: 1519 Leonardo da Vinci ...

Published: Monday 02 May 1994
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 72 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

Anniversaries

... 1859 Jetome K Jerome, humorous writer; 1860 Theodor Herzl, founder of Zionism; 1892 Baron Manfred von Richthofen, German air ace known as Red Baron; 1895 Lorenz Hart, American lyricist; 1904 Bing Crosby, singer and film actor. Deaths: 1519 Leonardo da ...

Published: Thursday 02 May 1991
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 66 | Page: 14 | Tags: none