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The Bristol M.1 Monoplane Scout was a British monoplane fighter of the First World War. It holds the distinction of being the only British monoplane fighter to reach production during the conflict. During mid-1916, work commenced at Bristol on a new fighter aircraft as a private venture, headed by aeronautical engineer Frank Barnwell.
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 ...
3.5 Dr & F types (Dreidecker – triplane fighters) 3.6 E types ( Eindecker – armed monoplanes) 3.7 G & K types ( Grossflugzeuge – large bombers, originally Kampfflugzeuge – battleplane)
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 ...
Wings 2: Aces High (1992) Dogfight: 80 Years of Aerial Warfare (1993) Aces of the Deep (1994) Wings of Glory (1994) Dawn Patrol (1994) Flying Corps (1996) Red Baron II (1997) Master of the Skies: The Red Ace (2000) Red Ace Squadron (2001) Wings of War (2004) Snoopy vs. the Red Baron (2006) First Eagles: The Great War 1918 (2006) Time Ace (2007)
The Fokker Scourge is usually considered by the British to have begun on 1 August, when B.E.2cs of 2 Squadron Royal Flying Corps (RFC) bombed the base of FFA 62 at 5:00 a. m., waking the German pilots, including Boelcke (most likely, still with E 3/15) and Immelmann (flying E 13/15), who were quickly into the air after the raiders. [25]
Exceptions were the single-seat Fokker "A" types that became the "E" class fighters when they were armed with synchronised machine guns. After 1915, the "A" class gradually became extinct, as examples reached obsolescence and were discarded. Later monoplanes were included in the "D", "C" or "CL" classes, with equivalent biplanes. B
Data from War Planes of the First World War:Volume Five General characteristics Crew: 1 Length: 5.83 m (19 ft 2 in) Wingspan: 8.15 m (26 ft 9 in) Height: 2.25 m (7 ft 5 in) Wing area: 11 m 2 (120 sq ft) Empty weight: 288 kg (635 lb) Gross weight: 444 kg (979 lb) Powerplant: 1 × Le Rhône 9C 9-cylinder air-cooled rotary engine, 60 kW (80 hp) Performance Maximum speed: 144 km/h (89 mph, 78 kn ...