Handsome and dashing, famed for his bright scarlet plane, von Richthofen was nicknamed "The Red Baron," while the squadron he led was called the "Flying Circus." With 80 kills to his credit, von ...

KANSAS CITY, MO. - It's never been clear why the World War I German flying ace dubbed the Red Baron took the chances that got him killed one spring day in 1918. Now two retired U.S. Air Force ...

WIESBADEN, Nov. 13 — Memories of another war — of pilots, spies and death — were recalled by an aged German baroness and the American woman who survived the fatal plane crash which robbed the ...

It didn’t take long for newspapers to print the news that German World War I fighter pilot Manfred von Richthofen (aka the Red Baron) was shot down and killed in France on April 21, 1918. The April 22 ...

Saturday marks the anniversary of the death of the World War I flying ace known as the “Red Baron,” a man who earned fame in Germany and respect even among his enemies. April 21, 1918, was a sunny ...

The brothers Leon and Robert Morane designed this monoplane with fellow engineer Raymond Saulnier in 1913. The fragile L was meant for reconnaissance, but by the war's start Saulnier had attached ...

A new electric plane under development sports a basic wing design with roots that go back to World War I. The Faradair BEHA, a short-haul business and passenger jet, uses three main wings joined ...

After all, it was his father who was tasked with retrieving the body and the aircraft of the famed German flier, from the middle of a battlefield in France to confirm that very question. And the son ...

This hagiographic movie portrait of Germany's World War I flying ace Manfred von Richthofen is most impressive while bi- and tri-planes dodge and shoot at each other in the sky. On the ground, the ...