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The first squadron equipped with the DH.2, and the first RFC squadron completely equipped with single-seat fighters, No. 24 Squadron RFC, arrived in France early February 1916. [ 15 ] [ 9 ] The DH.2 eventually equipped seven fighter squadrons on the Western Front [ 16 ] and proved more than a match for the Fokker Eindecker and the first DH.2 ...
Data from Austro-Hungarian Army Aircraft of World War One General characteristics Crew: 1 Length: 7.35 m (24 ft 1 in) Upper wingspan: 9 m (29 ft 6 in) Lower wingspan: 8.73 m (28 ft 8 in) Height: 2.8 m (9 ft 2 in) Wing area: 20.56 m 2 (221.3 sq ft) Empty weight: 710 kg (1,565 lb) Gross weight: 987 kg (2,176 lb) Powerplant: 1 × Austro-Daimler 200hp 6-cylinder water-cooled in-line piston engine ...
The Nieuport 28 C.1, a French biplane fighter aircraft flown during World War I, was built by Nieuport and designed by Gustave Delage. Owing its lineage to the successful line of sesquiplane fighters that included the Nieuport 17, the Nieuport 28 continued a similar design philosophy of a lightweight and highly maneuverable aircraft.
By April 1916, the air superiority established by the Eindecker pilots and maintained by their use within the KEK formations had long evaporated as the Halberstadt D.II began to be phased in as Germany's first biplane fighter design, with the first Fokker D-series biplane fighters joining the Halberstadts, and a target was set to establish 37 ...
Believed to have been first tried within the first six months of 1916, future German rocketry pioneer Leutnant Rudolf Nebel, then flying as a fighter pilot with Jasta 5, one of the earliest German fighter squadrons within the Luftstreitkräfte, used a Halberstadt D.II aircraft of that unit in the first known German attempt at arming an aircraft ...
Postwar developments of the F.2B included the F.2B Mk II, a two-seat army co-operation biplane, fitted with desert equipment and a tropical cooling system, which first flew in December 1919, of which 435 were built. The Type 96 Fighter Mk III and Type 96A Fighter Mk VI were structurally strengthened aircraft, of which 50 were built in 1926 ...
The SPAD S.VII C.1 was the first in a series of single-seat biplane fighter aircraft produced by Société Pour L'Aviation et ses Dérivés (SPAD) during the First World War. Like its successors, the S.VII was renowned as a sturdy and rugged aircraft with good diving characteristics.
Zeppelin-Lindau (Dornier) D.I on trestle. The Dornier D.I was one of several designs by Claude Dornier to have an all-metal stressed skin [3] monocoque structure, [3] and it was the first fighter to feature such construction and although production was halted prior to the completion of any production versions, it was also the first aircraft with these features to go into production.