Tonight on Ch 4 TV [UK] Fighting the Red Baron

Showing @ 21.00 BST/ 20.00 GMT tonight, 4th June 2010, on Channel 4 TV in
the UK.
Repeating @ 22.00 BST/ 21.00 GMT on Channel 4 + 1

Fighting the Red Baron

In 1914, when World War I began, the aeroplane was so new the British had
never used it in battle before. Eager recruits, some as young as 17, rushed
to join the British army's new aircraft service - the Royal Flying Corps -
and quickly came up against the Red Baron and the German hunting squadrons.
By the end of the war in 1918, a new and terrifying form of warfare had been
devised, the skies had been turned into battlefields and the cost to
aviation pioneers had been enormous. Fighting the Red Baron follows two
modern-day pilots as they face the same challenges the aviators of WWI
faced, in order to find out how aerial warfare changed so quickly in just
four years.
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Dingo