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The Vickers F.B.5 (Fighting Biplane 5) (known as the "Gunbus") was a British two-seat pusher military biplane of the First World War.Armed with a single .303 in (7.7 mm) Lewis gun operated by the observer in the front of the nacelle, it was the first aircraft purpose-built for air-to-air combat to see service, making it the world's first operational fighter aircraft.
It was located adjacent to the Wilshire Country Club to the west and south and the Los Angeles Tennis Club to the east. [ 1 ] Black-Foxe was founded in 1928 by Charles E. Toberman , a Hollywood developer and financier, along with two World War I veterans, Army Majors Earle Foxe and Harry Lee Black.
At the start of the First World War, Vickers entered into a partnership with the Hart Engine Company to develop a 150 hp (110 kW) nine-cylinder radial engine designed by Hart. This engine was planned to power a number of new designs by Vickers, the first of which was a small single-engine pusher biplane fighter , the F.B.12 .
Vickers was a British engineering company that existed from 1828 until 1999. ... In 1911, the company expanded into aircraft manufacture and opened a flying school.
The design was a development of the earlier Vickers F.B.12 prototypes; [2] and was a two-bay biplane with a high-mounted nacelle for the pilot and an initial armament of two .303 in (7.7 mm) Lewis Guns. Behind this was a water-cooled 200 hp (150 kW) Hispano-Suiza engine driving the propeller.
The Vickers F.B.19 was a British single-seat fighting scout of the First World War, developed from the Barnwell Bullet prototype, and sometimes known as the Vickers Bullet. It served with the Royal Flying Corps and the Imperial Russian Air Service , which subsequently led to the Red Air Force adopting it during the Russian Civil War .
[274] Grief stricken at news of the death of his son, "W. C. Thomas of 951 Fresno Street [Los Angeles], today sought information as to the disposition of the body. Mr. Thomas telegraphed the Salt Lake police chief and the military authorities at Rockwell field but received no answer. Today, through the Evening Herald, he endeavored to learn ...
Sawtelle Veterans Home. The Sawtelle Veterans Home was a care home for disabled American veterans in Sawtelle, Los Angeles, California, United States.The Home, formally the Pacific Branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, was established in 1887 on 300 acres (1.2 km 2) of Rancho San Vicente y Santa Monica lands donated by Senator John P. Jones and Arcadia B. de Baker.