Fullofit - Patience has many benefits.......not getting your buster browns removed whilst several thousand feet up travelling in a box of wood and canvas is one of them definitely. Klaus was under real pressure there in that first sortie thanks to some hard working but ultimately....dead...SPADs. Then another gang turn up just as his guns run dry. He's in a pickle alright, bullets ripping into his crate, damage being done. Luck is one fickle and unpredictable lady, sometimes it helps Andrew with his claims, sometimes it helps Klaus not have his head kleaved by a chunk of .303 and then....have the enemy turn away and fly home. In true Klaus style he then took it out on those SPADs in the afternoon, that's more like it and then a Breguet in to the bargain. Six claims registered, but therein lies the problem methinks. The German claims board simply don't have time to sift through all that. They're too busy packing their equipment, belongings and French mistresses into crates and sending them back into Germany proper. Great videos btw.
Lou - Andrew thanks you for that gong, from the French as well. Formidable!
Epower - Andrew's loins couldn't be more girded if they'd been handcrafted in Pittsburgh, believe me.
"A great deal of an aeroplane could be holed without affecting its ability to fly. Wings and fuselage could be—and often were—pierced in 50 places, missing the occupants by inches (blissfully unaware of how close it had come until they returned to base). Then the sailmaker would carefully cover each hole with a square inch of Irish linen frayed at the edges and with a brushful of dope make our aircraft 'serviceable' again within an hour."
