![]() ![]() The Military Aviation Museum in Virginia Beach, Virginia, is home to one of the world's largest collections of warbirds in flying condition. He is the author of Kursk: The Battle of Prokhorovka (Aberdeen Books, Sheridan, CO., 2015), America’s Modern Wars: Understanding Iraq, Afghanistan and Vietnam (Casemate Publishers, Philadelphia & Oxford, 2015), War by Numbers: Understanding Conventional Combat (Potomac Books, Lincoln, NE., 2017) and The Battle of Prokhorovka (Stackpole Books, Guilford, CT., 2019) His published works include papers and monographs for the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment and the Vietnam Veterans of American Foundation, in addition to over 40 articles written for limited-distribution newsletters and over 60 analytical reports prepared for the Defense Department. He has also directed a number of studies related to the military impact of banning antipersonnel mines for the Joint Staff, Los Alamos National Laboratories and the Vietnam Veterans of American Foundation. Army, the Defense Department, the Joint Staff and the U.S. He has participated in casualty estimation studies (including estimates for Bosnia and Iraq) and studies of air campaign modeling, enemy prisoner of war capture rates, medium weight armor, urban warfare, situational awareness, counterinsurgency and other subjects for the U.S. Lawrence was the program manager for the Ardennes Campaign Simulation Data Base, the Kursk Data Base, the Modern Insurgency Spread Sheets and for a number of other smaller combat data bases. ![]() The Dupuy Institute provides independent, historically-based analyses of lessons learned from modern military experience. He is the Executive Director and President of The Dupuy Institute, an organization dedicated to scholarly research and objective analysis of historical data related to armed conflict and the resolution of armed conflict. Lawrence is a professional historian and military analyst. Note the minor design differences, in particular the “fourth wing” between the wheels of the Fokkers.įinally, among the flying aircraft was a Sopwith 1/2 strutter two-seat aircraft. They had two flying models.Īnd then there was the Sopwith Triplane. ![]() It definitely flew with more power and gusto then the rest of the planes.Īnd then there are the Fokker DR1 of Fokker Triplanes, made famous by theīloody Red Baron. It was the most developed and advanced Fokker of the war, with a few less wings then the more famous Fokker Triplane. It did fly this weekend, lifting off from the airfield, but not too high, and then landing back down. The first plane is the Curtis Flyer, 1911. ![]() Here are some of the Great War planes lined up behind the hangers. Took a few pictures, although far from “professional” Spent this last week down in Virginia Beach at the “Warbirds Over the Beach” airshow. ![]()
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