Medieval look-a-like decorations on warplanes
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Medieval look-a-like decorations on warplanes
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Title: Modern Knights Errant Create a New Heraldry of the Air
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Subtitle: They blazon their devices on airplanes as warriors once did on shield and armor
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caption 1: An interesting feature of the
Great War was the revival by
the air fighters of traditions and
practices of knight _errantry.
Just as the knights of old wore
distinctive devices, 0 the chiv-
alry of the air placed distinct-
ive markings on their airplanes
caption 2: ‘We have to show this interesting beast upside down because the Hun plane he
decorates fell that way. The ancient griffin, or gryphon, guarded treasure
caption 3: One French flyer sought inspiration from the ancients,
choosing as his device the symbol of speed and wisdom
caption 4: Fritz likes boastful heraldry—here we have the Bavarian
lion chasing the French cock. How that rooster came back!
caption 5: The coats-of-arms of which
ancient families are proud
had their origin in the
same spirit that led these
fighting airmen to blazon
the rose upon their plane
caption 6:A Lafayette Escadrille flyer, who, while short
on heraldry, evidently believed implicitly in
the magic combination of the mystic 13, his
lady's name, and the United States shield
caption 7: The “sporting” element of individual combat, quite missing from modern war
on the ground, still lives for the air fighters, as this German plane indicates
caption 8: A Belgian version of the
Indian head. When knight-
hood was in flower, this de-
vice would have been handed
down from father to son, and
would have been embla
zoned on the flag flying from
the family castle. It's hard
to be picturesque and
democratic at the same time
caption 9: Like the “one-shicld” knights of romance, the Stork Esca-
drille fiyers carried one distinguishing emblem on their planes
caption 10:
Does the dove seem out of place on a fighting plane?
Well, the stork is supposed to be in other business, too
caption 11: Not only appropriate in its sug-
gestion of a “shooting star,” but
also, in its character as a comet,
a legitimate heraldic device
caption 12:
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Language (Dublin Core)
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eng
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Date Issued (Dublin Core)
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1919-02
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pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
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56-57
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Rights (Dublin Core)
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Public domain (Google digitized)
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Archived by (Dublin Core)
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Davide Donà
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Marco Bortolami (editor)
Popular Science Monthly, v. 94, n. 2, 1919
