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Alberto Santos-Dumont, Dirigibles and Dinosaurs
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25/04/2013 by noonobservation

I have recently become enamoured of the dirigible – that evolutionary dinosaur of aviation. Like the diplodocus, dirigibles were huge, slow, difficult to …
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Category: Dirigibles | Tags: airships, Alberto Santos-Dumont, aviation, dirigibles, History, Paris
Manfred von Richthofen: Baddy or Just German?
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19/12/2012 by noonobservation

Manfred von Richthofen was credited with 80 combat victories by his death, aged just 25. At the age of 31, …
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Category: The Great War | Tags: Aces, aviation, First World War, History, Manfred von Richthofen, WW1