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Lacking an indigenous aviation industry, the Ottoman Empire primarily relied on Germany for aircraft, although a number of French pre-war aircraft were used in the early part of the war. The Ottoman Empire also operated two Avro 504 light fighter reconnaissance aircraft. Later on, they were used as trainer aircraft.
Aircraft supplied from Germany generally arrived with the familiar black cross marking already applied, and this was adopted officially from 1916, though individual aircraft occasionally kept some red-white-red bands. [citation needed] Austria-Hungary produced 413 seaplanes during the war. [30] These naval aircraft were more elaborately marked.
The home port of the Austro-Hungarian Navy was the Seearsenal (naval base) at Pola (now Pula, Croatia); a role it took over from Venice, where the early Austrian Navy had been based. Supplementary bases included: the busy port of Trieste and the natural harbour of Cattaro (now Kotor , Montenegro).
The first aircraft brought down by another was an Austrian reconnaissance aircraft rammed on 8 September 1914 by a Russian pilot Pyotr Nesterov in Galicia in the Eastern Front. Both planes crashed as the result of the attack, killing all occupants.
This is a list of Austro-Hungarian Navy ships. Painting of an Austro-Hungarian squadron, ... SMS Don Juan d'Austria (1862) Erzherzog Ferdinand Max class. SMS ...
This list of World War I flying aces from Austria-Hungary contains the names of aviators from the countries ruled by the Habsburg dynasty. Austria-Hungary was a constitutional union of the Austrian Empire ( Cisleithania ) and the Kingdom of Hungary ( Transleithania ) which existed from 1867 to 1918, when it collapsed as a result of defeat in ...
The Phönix D.I was the second design developed by the Phönix Flugzeug-Werke based on Hansa-Brandenburg D.I design which it has produced under licence. [1] The D.I was a single-seat biplane fighter with improvements over the original Hansa-Brandenburg design which included more efficient wings, a more powerful engine and structural improvements. [1]
World War I naval ships of Austria-Hungary (6 C, 18 P) W. World War I artillery of Austria-Hungary (1 C, 37 P) World War I Austro-Hungarian infantry weapons (25 P)