Children's Poems and Letters from the Front from around the World, written on seeded paper will be dropped from one of our WW1 aeroplanes at the Commemorations for the Battle of the Somme and to mark the Liberation of Quesnoy.
To all the children from around the World who wrote such moving poems in the last 12 months about the sacrifice in WW1 and their hopes for the future in the knowledge of this sacrifice, this video is for you. The WW1 Aviation Heritage Trust is pleased to report that all your poems made it […]
Early ‘spotting’ aircraft were normally two-seaters comprising a pilot and observer. On the inherently-stable British Royal Aircraft Factory BE2 biplanes, the observer occupied the front seat – surrounded by struts and bracing cables – a somewhat impractical position from which to conduct his myriad duties. In fact observers spent most of their time kneeling on […]
