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The legendary S.E.5a

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Survived the Great War by Treflyn Lloyd-Roberts Via Flickr: The Shuttleworth Collection's S.E.5a F-904 displays over Old Warden during the 2025 Military Air Show. Aircraft: Royal Flying Corps Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5a F-904 (G-EBIA). Location: Old Warden Aerodrome (EGTH), near Biggleswade, Bedfordshire.
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The confused action on 7 May 1917 over Annoeullin, France in which 40-victory British ace, Albert Ball lost his life at the age of 20. Although his loss was officially credited to Lothar von Richthofen by the Germans, it appears likely Ball’s death-
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Taxiing out under an Old Warden sunset
This replica RAF SE5 was built by John Tetley and is seen here demoing at Old Warden

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A privately owned replica of the iconic WW1 RAF S.E.5A Fighter seen at Duxford Aerodrome
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The First Eagles Join WWI
100 years ago today, Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, sparking what became known as World War I.
The United States came into that war a little later – April of 1917, but that didn't keep some American pilots from volunteering to fight along their RAF brethren.
Source: The First Eagles
“You ought to see the gadgets!” Elliot Springs wrote his father after taking delivery of his first S.E.5a and peering inside the cockpit.
Elliot White Springs is one of the daring pilots profiled in The First Eagles: The Fearless American Aces Who Flew with the RAF in World War I, by Gavin Mortimer.
After many, many actual war stories in the main text, Mortimer includes this "whatever happened to…" wrap-up at the end of the book:
In 1921 Springs and Larry Callahan traveled to France to lay the ghosts of old friends to rest. On the ship across the Atlantic, Springs fell in love with Frances Ley, the daughter of a prosperous New York businessman. The pair were married a year later, and the union sparked a decade of feuding between Springs and his father. During that time Springs wrote War Birds: Diary of an Unknown Aviator, largely based on the diaries of John McGavock Grider. The book became a bestseller but provoked a row with Grider’s sister, who threatened legal action if she wasn’t given a share of the profits. Springs eventually paid out $12,500 in return for the right to use the diary, even though he always maintained that Grider had given him permission to quote from it in the event of his death.
Despite the dispute, Springs took an avuncular interest in the development of Grider’s sons John and George, helping to fund their entry into the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis. In 1931 Leroy Springs died, and his son finally felt ready to assume control of the family business, transforming Springs Mills from an ailing company into a phenomenally successful enterprise with assets of $138.5 million, compared to the $13 million it had when he took over from his father. Elliot Springs died of pancreatic cancer in 1959.