WW1 Air Warfare

He was a famous World War 1 Ace. He fought off 7 or 8 Germans by himself in one fight.

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They never met in combat. Rickenbacker was a new pilot, entering combat 6 April 1918. Von Richtofen was killed 21 April 1918 (likely by ground fire by Australian soldiers) while chasing Canadian RFC pilot Wilfred "Wop" May over Allied lines. He was chased by Canadian pilot Roy Brown. Some accounts credit Brown with shooting him down, others credit Australian soldiers. Most of the evidence points to ground fire as the cause of death.

There was no one main airplane. Each country developed a number of airplanes throughout the war.

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The Sopwith Camel was one of the best British fighters in WW1, which followed a series of earlier Sopwith designs. It was a great fighter and was agile to fly. This British aircraft was credited with downing more enemy aircraft than any other Allied plane. However, it was a little tricky during landing and take-off and almost as many of them were destroyed by accidents as destroyed in combat.

The aircraft got its name "Camel" because of the hump on top of the fuselage behind the engine cowling that partially covered the twin machine guns.

Actually only about 400 were destroyed, most in training accidents, with over 1,294 confirmed victories in World War I.

It was flown by British, American and Canadian pilots mainly, but because the engine rotated around a stationary crankshaft there was a lot of torque on the airframe. To an unsuspecting pilot this could put them in great danger.

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Absolutely. Well, actually that depends what you consider a "normal airplane," however, fighters are very different from most other planes.

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well, WWI planes COULD go as high as any modern plane, but the height was somewhat cut down due to the pilot. WWI fighter planes had open cockpits, and as a result, going to high would result in the pilot fainting and crashing.

Approximately 500 miles of trenches were dug and shelled during the last four years of fighting. 1914 had been a war of manuever; it stalemated in about 1915. The "Land" was not destroyed; just temporarily dug up. Today, lands which have not been preserved as "memorials", have returned to their natural forest state, or have been farmed. The preserved "memorials" have been re-vegetated with natural growth, and if the Doughboys of WWI were to see their old trenches now, they would not recognize them. They look like "jagged" golf courses, full of green grass. The same holds true with formerly N & S Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia: the THOUSANDS of bomb craters have turned into ponds. With grass, flowers, and trees growing around the ponds, to the untrained observer, they look like natural little lakes. Unless it's of a volcanic nature, in almost ALL cases, the land will heal itself.

Fokker Triplanes were NOT Red. That is totally un-realistic.

The Fokker Dr.1 triplanes came off the assembly line painted in light Blue with the upper surfaced painted with a Green wash. The top looked streaked. (This was different from many of the other airplanes that had 3 color or 5 color Lozenge patterns painted on the wing.)

The Red Baron only flew two airplanes in his career that was all RED. One was an Albatros D-III and one was the Fokker Dr-1 that he was shot down in. He flew other Fokker Triplanes: some had Red only on top wing and engine cowl.

Some colors of Triplanes flown by other aces were painted all Medium Blue or White. Many had the tail painted with the squadron markings, such as Black/White stripes.

The highest ranking ace at the time the Triplane was produced was Werner Voss. He received one of the first airplanes, almost a prototype. He flew a triplane with a replacement engine in a famous dogfight on 23 September 1917. In this battle, he single-handily fought 7 British SE-5, including one ace. Werner Voss painted a "smiley face" on the front cowling of his Triplane. The engine cowling had two holes just above the propellor opening. The holes had white painted around them to resemble eyes and some eyebrows were painted over them and the propellor opening had a mustache painted over it---all in white on the Green cowling. This "Smiley face" is seen in movies and other media on all Triplanes. It was never used by anyone EXCEPT Werner Voss's plane.

The movie "Flyboys" was very inaccurate in showing all the Triplanes painted Red.

It did not have a single commonly used name, at the time that the war was being fought. The name varied between nations involved. If you do a web search on the first use of terms for the war, then you get various names. Some British soldiers called it "the Kaiser's War", whereas many Germans, especially those serving in the navy, called it the "Weltkrieg" (Worldwar). German writers a dozen years before the war had used that term to refer to a hypothetical war in the future. You can find examples of people, at the time, trying to come up with a better name for "The War". There had been so many wars in Europe over the centuries that it was becoming confusing. The most commonly used terms by the British and Americans would be: "The European War" "The Great European War" "The Great War" "The World War" Later after the war's end, sometimes to be more specific, the Europeans would add the years "1914-1918" or "1914-1919" to the end of the above terms, such as the "The Great War of 1914-1918". Earlier in British history, the term "Great War" was used when referring to the Wars of Napoleon. Ironically the current most common name(s) for the war, "World War One" or "First World War" would not be established until the start of the next world war.

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World War I became a battle of stamina. There were many small battles and each side began to get tired after two years of fighting.

Warfare continually evolves and at the time of WWI developments had made the defensive much more powerful than the offensive. Defenders with machine guns, rapid firing, bolt action rifles with magazines holding several rounds of ammunition, and rapid firing artillery - which for the first time in a large war no longer had to be a "line of sight" weapon (meaning artillerymen did not have to be able to see what they were shooting at) all gave great power to the defense. This defensive power was multiplied when the defenders were dug in to prepared defensive lines. Since both sides had these weapons, and both sides were dug in, neither side found it easy to attack successfully and break through the enemy line. Even on the rare occasions when a breakthrough was achieved, exploitation of that breach in the enemy line often proved impossible other than for very moderate local gains. This was because the troops achieving the breakthrough would be exhausted and hungry, their ranks severely thinned by losses in the attack. All food, all water, all resupply of ammunition, all reinforcements had to be brought forward over the shell blasted and cratered no-man's-land, over the remains of barbed wire entanglements and the multiple huge ditches of trenches criss-crossing the battlefield for miles, all pulled by horses which found this terrain impossible to traverse at anything other than a crawl.

No. The US had some fighter biplanes attached to the USS Macon and USS Akron and those planes were called Sparrowhawks.

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The term "coup" or "coup d'état" would most likely be used here.

I believe, if you are talking about the novel "Goodnight Mister Tom" by Michelle Magorian, Mister Tom lives in little Weirwold.

Airships and Zeppelins and Observation balloons were used successfully in WW1. They were filled with Hydrogen which is the lightest gas but is also explosive when ignited. (Later, airships began to use Helium)

The airship flew because it was filled with a gas that was lighter than the air so that it "floated" in the sky. This is the same theory that makes boats float.

For an airship to fly, the weight of the airship and the hydrogen contained it in has to be less than the weight of the Air it displaces. In other words, the Airship takes up space in the air and if it weighs less than the air, then it will fly.

For it to move forward, the airship had propellors to push it forward. It also had control surfaces on the tail to turn it and help it climb or dive.

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Manfred Von Richoften or also know as the red baron, he shot Dow 83 allied planes from 1916- and to 1918 when he got shot down by anit-aircraft fire. He was also ww1's best pilot, shooting down the most planes in the war.