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    Black Maria, Black Roger, Black Prince, Back Death and Black Sheep were cracker Canadian flyboys in WWI? Why were they known as the Black Flight?

    Question #112806. Asked by serpa. (Feb 13 10 12:29 AM)


    JaneofGaunt

    		During the First World War, the all Canadian "B" Flight of No. 10 Naval Squadron, led by Flight Cmdr. Raymond Collishaw, consisted of 5 black nosed Sopwith Triplanes. These Triplanes were Collishaw's Black Maria, Ellis Vair Reid's Black Roger, John E. Sharman's Black Death, W. Melville Alexander's Black Prince and Gerald Ewart Nash's Black Sheep. This was the redoubtable "Black Flight".



    http://www.blackflight.com/about.asp

    Feb 13 10, 12:53 AM

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