The Victory Loan Flying Circus, a barnstorming group of World War I pilots using WWI combat aircraft, put on a show for thousands of central Illinoisans in front of the Illinois State Fairgrounds ...

Handsome and dashing, famed for his bright scarlet plane, von Richthofen was nicknamed "The Red Baron," while the squadron he led was called the "Flying Circus." With 80 kills to his credit, von ...

“LONDON, April 23 — Further details were received today of the death of Baron Rittmeister von Richthofen, leader of the German ‘Flying Circus,’ just credited by Berlin with eighty victories.

A 60-year-old pilot has died after the replica First World War German fighter plane he was flying crashed at an air show in New York.