Edward Corringham "Mick" Mannock was a British-Irish flying ace who served in the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force during the First World War. Mannock was a pioneer of fighter aircraft tactics i
Edward "Mick" Mannock RFC c. 1917
Mannock (far left) with family members
The officers of No. 85 Squadron, including Major Mannock, in front of their S.E.5a scouts at Saint-Omer aerodrome.
James Thomas Byford McCudden, was an English flying ace of the First World War and among the most highly decorated airmen in British military history. Born in 1895 to a middle class family with milita
McCudden in c. 1918
McCudden indulging in his other engineering interest: motorcycles. Pictured here on a Moto Reve model, 1913 at the RFC manoeuvres.
Manfred von Richthofen. Possibly McCudden's opponent on 27 December 1916.
52 of McCudden's 57 victims fell while he was flying the S.E.5.