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 […]
Gustave Delage, the Nieuport company’s chief designer, undertook various progressive developments of his basic sesquiplane concept. The Nieuport 17 was virtually a new design, not a Bébé derivative, the wing area being increased and fitted with neat fairings on the fuselage behind the engine cowling. The first examples began appearing in April 1916 and were […]
