More Research and Planning of World War 1 Section.

This week I have been focused on amassing information and further research on what the air combat of World War 1 was like. With this information I have begun to pile together a word document detailing points to touch on when the time comes, hopefully within the next few days or weeks, to write the first section of my EPQ, mainly focusing on pre and during World War 1 era air warfare. Below are certain clips that have especially helped me to determine further what air combat was like, both in the air and on the ground.

The above clip has been especially useful as details the training methods of World War 1 pilots in the movie "Fly Boys". Here we see many primitive methods of training still in use today such as the adaption of G-Force training using, in this case, a wooden chair. Plus, it has James Franco starring as the main pilot.

This video is just one example of many a battle scene within the same movie flyboys. Here we can see some top class acting but on a more important and relevant note some of the problems of early aircraft and the gung-ho attitude used by most of the pilots. Here we also see some tactics vital to the writing of my project.

This last video clip has given me an insight into the kind of chivalry between the pilots of all nations in the war. My research has revealed how some historians have opted to call the war of the air "The Last Gentleman's War". This clip summaries this viewpoint beautifully, taken from the renowned movie "The Red Baron" as German fighters attend the funeral of that of a downed English pilot, leaving the message on a reef "To a friend and enemy" with the name of the downed airman. It is said that, upon the death of the Red Baron, all the allied troops raised a glass to the life of Von Richthofen. In addition to this it further gives an insight into air combat tactics that were used in the battle scene of the clip and introduces one of the main figures of World War 1 air combat, the infamous Manfred Von Richthofen, more commonly called the Red Baron.

So far, I am almost ready to begin writing my section on World War 1 air combat, needing only slight more research and a deeper plan of what exactly I should be writing.