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Cheesman, E.F. (ed.) Fighter Aircraft of the 1914–1918 War. Letchworth, UK: Harleyford, 1960; The Great War, television documentary by the BBC. Gray, Peter & Thetford, Owen German Aircraft of the First World War. London, Putnam, 1962. Guttman, Jon. Pusher Aces of World War 1: Volume 88 of Osprey Aircraft of the Aces: Volume 88 of Aircraft of ...
The Fokker Eindecker fighters were a series of German World War I monoplane single-seat fighter aircraft designed by Dutch engineer Anthony Fokker. [2] Developed in April 1915, the first Eindecker ("Monoplane") was the first purpose-built German fighter aircraft and the first aircraft to be fitted with a synchronization gear, enabling the pilot to fire a machine gun through the arc of the ...
The first use of an airplane in war was a reconnaissance flight performed on 23 October 1911 by Captain Carlo Maria Piazza in a Blériot XI during the Italo-Turkish War in Tripolitania. Military aerial photography began that December. The experience in World War I would begin on very similar terms, with French Bleriot and German Taube ...
The Sopwith Camel is a British First World War single-seat biplane fighter aircraft that was introduced on the Western Front in 1917. It was developed by the Sopwith Aviation Company as a successor to the Sopwith Pup and became one of the best-known fighter aircraft of the Great War. Pilots flying Camels were credited with downing 1,294 enemy ...
The Curtiss JN-4 is possibly North America's most famous World War I aircraft. It was widely used during World War I to train beginning pilots, with an estimated 95% of all trainees having flown a JN-4. [11] The US version was called "Jenny", a derivation from its official designation.
Data from French Aircraft of the First World War General characteristics Crew: 1 Length: 6.25 m (20 ft 6 in) Wingspan: 8.25 m (27 ft 1 in) late examples had a span of 8.08 m (26.5 ft) Height: 2.60 m (8 ft 6 in) Wing area: 21.11 m 2 (227.2 sq ft) late examples had a wing area of 20.2 m 2 (217 sq ft) Empty weight: 601.5 kg (1,326 lb) Gross weight: 856.5 kg (1,888 lb) Powerplant: 1 × Hispano ...
Data from Quest for Performance. General characteristics Crew: 1 Length: 5.77 m (18 ft 11 in) Upper wingspan: 7.19 m (23 ft 7 in) Height: 2.95 m (9 ft 8 in) Wing area: 18.7 m 2 (201 sq ft) Aspect ratio: 4.04 Empty weight: 406 kg (895 lb) Gross weight: 586 kg (1,291 lb) Powerplant: 1 × Oberursel Ur.II 9-cylinder air-cooled rotary piston engine, 82 kW (110 hp) Propellers: 2-bladed fixed-pitch ...
The Armistice ending the war specifically required, as the fourth clause of the "Clauses Relating to the Western Front", that Germany was required to surrender all D.VIIs to the Allies. [1] Surviving aircraft saw much service with many countries in the years after World War I.