Comments to 100 Years Ago Today

[Aktungbby]

After this double victory French newspapers begin calling Pègoud "L'As" ("The Ace"). The term will later be applied to any pilot scoring five victories or more, a practice still in use today.

Pégoud also was the first pilot to make a parachute jump from an airplane. He also became a popular instructor of French and other European fledgling pilots. On 31 August 1915, Pégoud was shot down by one of his prewar German students, Unteroffizier Walter Kandulski, while intercepting a German reconnaissance aircraft. He was 26 years old. The same German crew later dropped a funeral wreath above the French lines. That's why we call 'em the Knights of the Air-they kept it civil ...at times...

[mapuc]

Originally Posted by Aktungbby

Pégoud also was the first pilot to make a parachute jump from an airplane. He also became a popular instructor of French and other European fledgling pilots. On 31 August 1915, Pégoud was shot down by one of his prewar German students, Unteroffizier Walter Kandulski, while intercepting a German reconnaissance aircraft. He was 26 years old. The same German crew later dropped a funeral wreath above the French lines. That's why we call 'em the Knights of the Air-they kept it civil ...at times...

Thank you, this was new to me, now I have learned something more today.

Markus

[Sailor Steve]

I guess you both missed it the first time around.
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...&postcount=573

[mapuc]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

I guess you both missed it the first time around.
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...&postcount=573

My excuse ? I'm getting old, my memory isn't what it once was.

Markus

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

I guess you both missed it the first time around.
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...&postcount=573

Originally Posted by mapuc

My excuse ? I'm getting old, my memory isn't what it once was.

Markus

Indeed! we didn't necessarily miss we're just reemphasizing After all 'no sane man leaves a perfectly good aircraft without great cause'; much less just going experimenting first, unlike Ernst Udet or my daddy- three times from trainers and combat-fatigued ferry-command relics in Texas, as in seriously 'put to it'. I owe the man!

[Jeff-Groves]

Originally Posted by Aktungbby

no sane man leaves a perfectly good aircraft

Hey!
No poking the ParaTroopers!!

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Jeff-Groves

Hey!
No poking the ParaTroopers!!

"I knew I forgot something"

[mapuc]

Paratroppers was first after the WWI and if I remember correctly it was the russian who was first to use soldiers to jump from airplanes. Edit. If my memory isn't playing with me, I say it was in the middle of the 20's

That was a little detour from the thread.

Parachuting was quit new when WWI started-please correct if I'm wrong.

Seem to remember a sentence-not all pilot had parachut and those who had didn't alway survive a jump, due to bad parachute etc.

Markus

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Aktungbby

Pégoud also was the first pilot to make a parachute jump from an airplane. He also became a popular instructor of French and other European fledgling pilots. On 31 August 1915, Pégoud was shot down by one of his prewar German students, Unteroffizier Walter Kandulski, while intercepting a German reconnaissance aircraft. He was 26 years old. The same German crew later dropped a funeral wreath above the French lines. That's why we call 'em the Knights of the Air-they kept it civil ...at times...

Indeed and in addition to the above there was an incorrect report that two weeks later Kandulski was shot down by the French pilot Roger Ronserail. In fact Kandulski survived the war.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

...incorrect report...

That question is still hotly debated in certain circles to this day.

I wasn't going to mention it, but since the spoilers are already out of the bag...

[Aktungbby]

The steamer Minnesota, the largest American cargo ship, runs aground off the shore of Iwajima, Japan, and is stranded.

The great dining saloon, which can seat 200 passengers, is at the forward end of the deck house and is furnished in mahogany. Just above the dining saloon is the library on one side and the ladies’ boudoir on the other. While on the bridge deck is the smoking room, furnished in leather and Flemish oak. There is also an airy nursery and children’s play rooms on the promenade deck. The number of passengers provided for is 218 first and 68 third class, while below deck accommodations are provided for 1,300 troops (one regiment) or 2,400 steerage passengers. A unique feature is the opium den astern for the use of Orientals. 66 American officers over-saw 216 Chinese crew members who worked for wages far less than Americans.” how PC is that BBY!
The ship was built for J.J. Hill, the Great Northern Railroad magnate, to become part of the Great Northern Steamship Company. His intention was that it would serve as competition with the Japanese as part of his dream to carry passengers but mainly import the highly prized commodity of Asian silk. It was an economic money-grabbing risk that ended in a boondoggle for Hill She was also used in 1919 as troop ship and renamed SS Troy to avoid confusion with USS Minnesota, a battleship. In November 1923, although converted to oil-burning, she was sold to Germany for scrapping. SS TROY in camo paint for WWI>AKA SS Minnesota>Dining for 200 The bottom line: She never made money, and the 43 voyages of the Great Northern Steamship Company’s ships left it with a deficit of $2,887,982.19.-in early 1900's dollar$

[mapuc]

I have been following Sailor Steve's story about Hellmuth von Mücke and his men's adventure in Saudi Arabia.

Thou more I read thou more I seem to remember a war movie I saw in the eighties. I can't remember every scene from that movie, only that the one side is out of water and keep on attacking the side that have water or controlling a waterhole.

Or I'm remembering wrong.

Markus

[Aktungbby]

Sahara with Humphrey Bogart come to mind.