Grisly Account of World War 1 Air Combat Over Verdun

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Originally Posted by Platapus

2. Burning to death as you were sitting under about 40 litres of highly flammable fuel in an airplane constructed of wood and linen coated with flammable chemicals.

To paraphrase that ace from flyboys, if you became a flamer you could always "take the easy way out".

As with all combat pilots from the world wars, I wonder how they kept going up there, day in and day out.