Forty years ago my son and I built a toy Fokker D-7. It took us a year to build the aircraft. When we had finished he found a mistake on the armrest. Six months later she rolled off the assembly line.
The following is a very rare piece of film, 100 years old, and shows Baron Von Richthofen preparing for a mission and putting on a flying suit prior to flight in cold weather. Hermann Goering is briefly shown…. On the ground activity is later shown.
The Baron was shot down on 21 April 1918 by Roy Brown of the Royal Navy Air Services, a prelude of the R.A.F.. The Aussies also have claimed that one of their machine gunners on the ground shot the Baron down. UK & Aussie doctors, after the autopsy, stated that the fatal bullet was shot from above.
The author of this program has been very involved as a Director of the Roy Brown Museum in Carleton Place, the home town of Roy. Roy Brown was inducted into Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame on 4 June 2015.
This film is 100 years old! and is an up-close and personal look at the most legendary combat pilot who ever lived, the infamous Red Baron, Manfred von Richthofen.
