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Aviation in World War I. Appearance. hide. Colour Autochrome Lumière of a Nieuport Fighter in Aisne, France 1917. World War I was the first major conflict involving the large-scale use of aircraft. Tethered observation balloons had already been employed in several wars and would be used extensively for artillery spotting.
The first use of an airplane in war was a reconnaissance flight performed on 23 October 1911 by Captain Carlo Maria Piazza in a Blériot XI during the Italo-Turkish War in Tripolitania. Military aerial photography began that December. The experience in World War I would begin on very similar terms, with French Bleriot and German Taube monoplanes.
G & K types (Grossflugzeuge – large bombers, originally Kampfflugzeuge – battleplane) J types (ground attack) L types (bombers) N types (nachtflugzeuge – night bombers) R types (Riesenflugzeuge – giant bombers) W types and other seaplanes (Wasser – floatplane) 3.13Experimental. Ottoman aircraft. See also.
List of World War I Entente aircraft. Appearance. This is a list of World War I Entente aircraft organized by country of origin. Dates are of first flight. Nieuport 10, used by most Entente countries as fighter, reconnaissance aircraft and trainer.
Technology during World War I. The machine gun emerged as a decisive weapon during World War I. Picture: British Vickers machine gun crew on the Western Front. Technology during World War I (1914–1918) reflected a trend toward industrialism and the application of mass-production methods to weapons and to the technology of warfare in general.
The history of aerial warfare began in ancient times, with the use of kites in China. In the third century, it progressed to balloon warfare. Airplanes were put to use for war starting in 1911, initially for reconnaissance, and then for aerial combat to shoot down the recon planes. The use of planes for strategic bombing emerged during World ...
German airship Schütte Lanz SL2 bombing Warsaw in 1914. Strategic bombing during World War I (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was principally carried out by the United Kingdom and France for the Entente Powers and Germany for the Central Powers. Most of the belligerents of World War I eventually engaged in some form of strategic bombing.
Fokker V.4 Fokker F.I. Variants. Fokker V.7. The Fokker Dr.I (Dreidecker, " triplane " in German), often known simply as the Fokker Triplane, was a World War I fighter aircraft built by Fokker-Flugzeugwerke. The Dr.I saw widespread service in the spring of 1918.