Knights Without Parachutes — james norman hall
James Norman Hall, the SPAD, and the Bounty
Bert Hall is not James Norman Hall, though both were Lafayette Escadrille pilots
Wikipedia has the wrong Hall pictured as James Norman Hall We found this out when Ewan Tallentire designed an earlier SPAD shirt, and almost had it printed before Andy Parks mentioned that oh, by the way, that wasn't James Norman Hall's face. The picture is actually of Bert Hall, who also flew for the Lafayette Escadrille, but with a less distinguished career. Distinguished or not, Bert Hall had a more distinctive-looking face, and what with the importance of visual branding on the Internet, Bert Hall's face could end up permanently attached to James Norman Hall's name. Which raises the question,...
SPAD XIII t-shirt and Mutiny on the Bounty
The SPADs are coming! Actually, the shirts are already here, but it may take a few days to get them listed. This design celebrates James Norman Hall of the Lafayette Escadrille, who along with fellow American pilot Charles Nordhoff co-wrote many books. More about him and the most famous book, Mutiny on the Bounty, later. So what's a SPAD? Eddie Rickenbacker explains: I hurried to the field. There they were, three beauties. [The Spads.] They were more impressive by far than any other airplane, any other automobile, any other piece of equipment I had ever seen. This new Spad would...