Instructions:

Your task is to follow each of the following pairs of links. After visiting each set of sites, your team should:

1. discuss what it was like to be a pilot during this conflict.
2. go to your team's worksheet and write down an understanding or truth, based on the set #1 workstation/internet sites that you just visitied [see below]. If you need a worksheet, click here.
3. then proceed to the next pair of sites of materials and repeat steps 1 and 2
4. When you have visited, discussed and written down your understandings from the 3 sets of websites and/or other work stations that you visited, you will then complete the last section of your worksheet that answers the question "What was it like to be a pilot during this conflict?".
   
   Remember, in the next stage [Stage 2] of this WebQuest, each member of your team will be sharing your team's response with a larger group of participants. Make sure your understanding and analysis will help this larger group understand the essential question better.

Remember - your entire team will be assessed on what you write down and turn in!

Visit these sites:

Bibliography:

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Cosmas, G.A (ed.). "Marine Flyer in France." The World War I Document Archive. 29 December 1996. Great War Primary Documents Archive, Inc. 28 December 1999. <http://raven.cc.ukans.edu/~kansite/ww_one/marines/cunning/flyer.html>.

The Royal Flying Corps

Wilson, Patrick. "The Royal Flying Corps." World War I Aviation pages. 9 January 2000. 8 July 2000. <http://www.patrickwilson.com/RFC.html>.

Zeppelins

Iavarone, Mike . "Zeppelins." Trenches on the Web. 10 November 1999. member of HistoryChannel.com affiliate program. 4 January 2000. <http://www.worldwar1.com/arm010.htm>.

Eddie Rickenbacker and Aces of World War I

"Edward Rickenbacker." Aces of the United States. 5 July 1999. The Aerodrome: Aces and Aircraft of WWI. 2 January 2000. <http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/usa/rickenba.html> and <http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/nations.html>

The Red Baron

"Manfred von Richthofen." British History 1700 - 1950. Spartacus Educational Internet Encyclopedia. 1 January 2000. <http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWrichthofen.htm>

Allied Aircraft and Equipment/Central Powers Aircraft and Equipment

Cosmas, G.A (ed.). "Allied Aircraft and Equipment/Central Powers Aircraft and Equipment." The World War I Document Archive. 29 December 1996. Great War Primary Documents Archive, Inc. 28 December 1999.
<http://raven.cc.ukans.edu/~kansite/ww_one/photos/aviation.htm#aac>, <http://raven.cc.ukans.edu/~kansite/ww_one/photos/aviation.htm#cpac>

The American Air Service

General William Mitchell."The American Air Service in the Great war: Part II" The Doughboy Center: The Story of the American Expeditionary Force; The Great War Society. 1998. WWI: Trenches on the Web. 8 January 2000. <http://www.worldwar1.com/dbc/airserv2.htm>.