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Richthofen recommended that fighter squadrons be reequipped with the new aircraft as soon as possible. [12] The combat evaluation came to an abrupt conclusion when Oberleutnant Kurt Wolff , Staffelführer of Jasta 11 , was shot down in 102/17 on 15 September, and Leutnant Werner Voss , Staffelführer of Jasta 10, was killed in 103/17 on 23 ...
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 ...
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 ...
This is a list of World War I Entente aircraft organized by country of origin. Dates are of first flight. Dates are of first flight. Nieuport 10, used by most Entente countries as fighter, reconnaissance aircraft and trainer.
The Fokker D.VII is a German World War I fighter aircraft designed by Reinhold Platz of the Fokker-Flugzeugwerke. Germany produced around 3,300 D.VII aircraft in the second half of 1918. In service with the Luftstreitkräfte, the D.VII quickly proved itself to be a formidable aircraft.
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.
The Sopwith 5F.1 Dolphin was a British fighter aircraft manufactured by the Sopwith Aviation Company.It was used by the Royal Flying Corps and its successor, the Royal Air Force, during the First World War.
The Nieuport 17, a French biplane fighter aircraft of World War I. While "ace" status was most often won by fighter pilots, bomber and reconnaissance crews, and observers in two-seater aircraft such as the Bristol F.2b ("Bristol Fighter"), also destroyed enemy aircraft. If a two-seater aircraft destroyed an aircraft, both crew members were ...