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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 ...
Two patterns have been named by historians from the surviving World War I-era German fighter aircraft that have had relatively intact examples of these lozenge coverings on them, each as the "type aircraft" that inspired the modern names for both the four and five color lozenge camouflage designs: the four-color fabric is called Knowlton from ...
Fokker Aircraft of WWI: Volume 5: 1918 Designs, Part 1 - Prototypes & D.VI: A Centennial Perspective on Great War Airplanes. Great War Aviation Centennial Series. Vol. 55A. n.p.: Aeronaut Books. ISBN 978-1-953201-09-6. Herris, Jack & Leckscheid, Jörn (2023). Fokker Aircraft of WWI: Volume 5: 1918 Designs, Part 2 - D.VII & D.VIII: A Centennial ...
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 ...
World War 1 in Colour is a six-episode television documentary series recounting the major events of World War I narrated by Kenneth Branagh. [1] The first of its six parts aired on 23 July 2003. [2] The series consists of colourised footage, with the colour of the images having been enhanced by computer-aided technology. [1]
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 ...
The Nieuport 11 (or Nieuport XI C.1 in contemporary sources), nicknamed the Bébé, is a French World War I single seat sesquiplane fighter aircraft, designed by Gustave Delage. [1] It was the primary aircraft that ended the Fokker Scourge in 1916. [ 2 ]
French Aircraft of the First World War. Mountain View California: Flying Machines Press. ISBN 0-9637110-4-0. Durkota, Alan; Darcey, Thomas; Kulikov, Victor (1995). The Imperial Russian Air Service — Famous Pilots and Aircraft of World War I. Mountain View, California: Flying Machines Press. ISBN 0-9637110-2-4. Lamberton, W.M. (1960).