Planes Of The First War In The Air

[Geek44]

For my 25th birthday, my girlfriend, her brother and my best mate all combined resources and bought me a forty minute flight in a Tiger Moth. It's the only time I've ever been in an open cockpit aircraft and it was an amazing experience. The thing that stayed with me was that as we were 'thundering' down the runway to take off, cars on the road next to the airfield were easily overtaking us. There was a hole in the floor where the control column had been removed. The pilot never told me he was going to do some 'maneuvering'...he just did a wing-over which is a shallow dive at full speed, then cut power, pull up and hard right rudder so the plane turns over on its wing-tip. Nothing very spectacular...but he did it without warning. I'm almost certain that guy is still prying my fingernails out of the leather coaming over the instrument panel. I was able to speak to him via radio...I had to push a button on the panel. I asked him to please not do that again without telling me unless he relished the idea of cleaning all kinds of panic induced stuff out of his cockpit.

[MAGNA]

FRENCH AIRCRAFT

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Caudron Bomber

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Spad

[LAH 1 SS]

heres my favourites
a flight line of albatros d1


a flight line of d2


a d3


and a d5

[MAGNA]

That's a pretty wild paint scheme LAH.

[LAH 1 SS]

yeh i know apparently this d5 is in the museum in canberra accrding to the source i would love to go see it

[cyberia]

Maurice Farman "Shorthorn"

The "Shorthorn" carried it's crew tandem with the observer in front, the pilot behind. The British used MF 1914s as bombers in 1914 in the Dardanelles, in Africa and Mesopotamia, with 80 assigned to the Royal Navy. The French used early types on the eastern front and in Macedonia.

The engine was a "pusher" type mounted aft of the cabin. Generally it was a 70 hp rotary Renault.

[cyberia]

A really great photograph of a Taube, reputed to have been taken as it flew over Paris

[cyberia]

A flight from the 1st Australian Flying Corps, Palestine-date unknown

[Wustenfuchs]

A Rumpler Taube (Dove). Several manufacturers made flex wing aircraft named the Taube.

[cyberia]

Originally Posted by Wustenfuchs

A Rumpler Taube (Dove). Several manufacturers made flex wing aircraft named the Taube.

Even though a warplane, there's an old world elegance to that aircraft.