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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 ...
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 ...
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).
The Standard E-1 was an early American Army fighter aircraft, tested in 1917. [1] It was the only pursuit aircraft manufactured by the United States during World War I . [ 2 ] It arrived late in World War I, and as a result saw more use in the months following the Armistice than those preceding it.
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.
Nieuport Aircraft of World War One. Wiltshire: Crowood Press. ISBN 978-1861264473. Whale, George (2008). British Airships: Past Present and Future. Toronto, Canada: Bastian Books. p. 124. ISBN 978-0-554-30772-5. Mowethorpe, Ces (1995). Battlebags British Airships of the First World War. Gloucestershire, UK: Alan Sutton Publishing. ISBN 0-7509 ...
The Hanriot HD.1 is a French World War I single-seat fighter aircraft. Rejected for service with French squadrons in favour of the SPAD S.VII, the type was supplied to the Aviation Militaire Belge (Belgian Military Aviation) and the Corpo Aeronautico Militare (Military Aviation Corps) of the Royal Italian Army, with both of which it proved highly successful. [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 ...