Labels:text | aircraft | screenshot | vehicle | plane | transport | aerospace engineering | outdoor | airplane OCR: NEW KNIGHTS Stats To the public, the first fighter pilots were chivalrous knights who BaxFact rode fleet flying horses high above the carnage in the trenches. Opposing pilots saluted one another in the air and drank to their fallen comrades and enemies alike. In reality, that façade was as thin as the fabric that covered their wood-braced airplanes. The lucky died quickly from machine-gun bullets; more often these young men roasted alive in fragile aircraft that all too easily became glorious flaming coffins. A Hat in the Ring B6291 The Escadrille Lafayette A Flock of Storks Aces The Flying Circus