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First World War flyers at Ōmaka

Published: Aug. 30, 2011, 5 a.m.

The death of German pilot the Red Baron - killed by an Australian soldier in the First World War - is at the centre of an aviation museum at Ōmaka, near Blenheim. Film director Peter Jackson's collection of First World War fighter aircraft is also on display, along with a tribute to the carrier pigeons that delivered messages during the war.