FIGHTER PILOT'S SURVIVAL GUIDE

摘要

On october 28,1916, German pilot Oswald Boelcke, in flight with five squadron mates, including Manfred von Richthofen, closed on a group of British de Havilland DH 2 fighters. Boelcke and Erwin Bohme chased the tail of the same aircraft, piloted by Alfred McKay of the Royal Flying Corps. Boelcke tried to break away, but Bohme's landing gear tore a strip of fabric from the top wing of Boelcke's Albatross D.II. The wing failed, the airplane dropped from the sky, and within minutes, Germany's leading ace-with 40 victories-was dead at the age of 25.