Join me on a tour of the amazing WWI Fighter Plane collection at the Omaka Aviation Heritage Centre in Blenheim. Photos can't do justice to this world class, in fact world leading, display of WWI aircraft. Peter Jackson and Weta Workshop have made full use of their prodigious talents here. Enjoy. (Note there are 2 pages - 1,2 - above the second photo.)
On a wing and a prayer...
Maybe this is where the saying originated! This chap had his wing shot up and found he could still steer it by standing on the wing and leaning into the cockpit and steering the plane down to a successful landing. He got a gong for his efforts.