It could be a stunt from a First World War epic - the German fighter plane preparing to swoop in for an air battle to the death. But while the replica Fokker Eindecker looks like a Hollywood prop, the ...
Sutton Valence School to build and fly replica of German Fokker Eindecker plane from First World War
High-flying pupils could soon be taking to the skies – in an aeroplane they have built themselves. Design technology students at Sutton Valence School are about to start a two-year project to make a ...
The brothers Leon and Robert Morane designed this monoplane with fellow engineer Raymond Saulnier in 1913. The fragile L was meant for reconnaissance, but by the war's start Saulnier had attached ...
On a glorious summer’s day what middle-aged man hasn’t imagined himself with the wind in his hair, at the wheel of an open-top sports car? Alas, the majority have to content themselves with a trudge ...
It was the moment a technological breakthrough changed the stakes of aerial combat. Mike Peters, Galloway’s resident military historian, explains how Germany gained the upper hand. A century ago, the ...
Aerial combat is very complicated on its face, when you think about it. Two or more large metal husks basically have to defy gravity, while also attempting to fire weapons at each other. Accurately.
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