Fighter Aces of the Great War
History has recorded that the first ever powered flight took place at Kitty Hawk in America, on 17 December 1903 and was carried out by the Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur, who were aircraft…
Specifikacia Fighter Aces of the Great War
History has recorded that the first ever powered flight took place at Kitty Hawk in America, on 17 December 1903 and was carried out by the Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur, who were aircraft designers and manufacturers. By the time of the outbreak of the First World War, aviation was only eleven years old. The daddy of battlefield warfare until that point in time had been the cavalry, a position it maintained even as war was declared on the Western Front.Aircraft were not initially seen as an offensive weapon and were instead used by both sides as observation platforms, or to take aerial photographs from. Even when they were eventually used in an offensive capacity, they did not have machine guns attached to them; if the crew wanted to open fire then they had to use a pistol or rifle.As the war progressed so the use of aircraft changed from being an observational
Fighter Aces of the Great War
Fighter Aces of the Luftwaffe
Luftwaffe Fighter Aces
American Aces of World War I
Beaufighter Aces of World War 2
Yakovlev Aces of World War 2
Italian Aces of World War 1