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Old ‘Red

... ace was a German. Dubbed “The Red Baron, von Richthofen was personally credited with shooting down 80 enemy aircraft, all British except for a lone Belgian. His red Fokker monoplane led what was known as “Richthofen’s Flying Circus”, a familiar and ...

Published: Tuesday 03 January 1989
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 254 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

risk as plane legend down in Amsterdam

... pre-World War I Germany. The German World War I pilots of its triplanes and biplanes included the legendary “Red Baron’’ Manfred von Richthofen. But the company could not win the economic dogfight that has bit the aerospace industry since the mid 1980’s ...

Published: Tuesday 23 January 1996
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 404 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

7.30 CARTOON TWO

... Another look at August in the garden. 8.10 TIMEWATCH The programme looks at 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: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 415 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Red Baron was ambushed claim THE 80-year mystery sur- It was dunng the ensuing dogfight that the Prussian ..

... Red Baron was ambushed claim THE 80-year mystery sur- It was dunng the ensuing dogfight that the Prussian aristo- rounding the death of the Red Baron took a new twist yester crat met his death at the age of 6 da It was claimed a British flier lured the ...

Published: Thursday 11 December 1997
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 224 | Page: 19 | Tags: none

Air show crash pilot named A RED BARON air ace who was killed when his replica World War I plane

... gasped his Fokker triplane, resembling that of German wartime flying ace Baron von Richthofen, crashed as it performed stunts with two English” biplanes. The Red Baron lookalike aircraft went into a steep dive and clipped a tall oak tree, crashing 600 ...

Published: Saturday 22 July 1995
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 141 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

soldier Baron’

... following day we saw 12 British planes come over and drop wreaths on the spot where Richthofen had crashed. Mr McEwen said the troops never knew von Richthofen as “The Red Baron”. He himself did not hear the name used until many years later when he was living ...

Published: Tuesday 03 January 1989
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 233 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Police were Yesterday

... (37%). Red Baron relic ‘bombs’ PIECE from the plane in which World War I fighter ace “the Red Baron, died had been expected to fetch up to £lOO,OOO but failed to sell at auction yesterday. Bidding for the relic, from Baron Manfred von Richthofen’s red ...

Published: Thursday 17 November 1994
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 351 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

FLASHPOINT Man dies under tractor on Deeside farm

... weapons and four with assault and robbery. The Red Baron remembered British and German air veterans yesterday recalled the death in action years ago ; German air ace Manfred von ' Richthofen, the Red Baron. Among those 'ho gathered at the North Germane ...

Published: Monday 22 April 1968
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 376 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

SNP land policy ‘will undo past damage’ UNVEILING the Scottish @ To reverse rural depopula- National Party’s ..

... 000 acres had _ bee in the past two years, bought by foreign interests Red Baron’s helmet A LEATHER _ flying wet worn by World German fighter ace Manfred von Richthofen (the Red Baron) is to be presented to the RAF Museum, Hendon, London. Golfers ...

Published: Tuesday 08 November 1977
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 378 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

schoolboy pilot

... English ace dearly wanted to meet the Red Baron in com Intell bat. had been igence reports indicated that the Baron sent home on leave, and that his brother ar was temporarily in command of what was nown as “the Richthofen Flyi Circus”, It seemed a good o ...

Published: Wednesday 23 February 1972
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 871 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

In Brtef

... Brtef Ace ‘wasn’t fit to fly’ THE legendary Red Baron was probably not fit to fly during the last months of his life, according lo new research by a German doctor. Dr Henning Allmers believes Manfred von Richthofen should not have returned to combat after ...

Published: Saturday 07 August 1999
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 398 | Page: 17 | Tags: none