WW1 Air Warfare

cards are dealt 10 per person, remaining 2 cards put on the table. successful bidder gets the two cards and then discards any two cards from their hand except the 3 or 5, these cards are never shown to the other players. score and minimum bid can be increased to reflect the increased number of tricks and points per round, this is decided before the game starts. alternatively each player may discard an additional 2 cards, not the 3 or 5, leaving only 8 tricks with no change to minimum bid or scoring. as in the first case the identity of the discards is not shared.

Not sure, but heard on the news this morning that Noddy Holder was bringing out a greatest hits album for Xmas. The time is right to do so - they were amazing live.

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USMC aircraft that can have a primary mission of air-to-air and or air-to-ground

General Billy Mitchell is often considered the father of modern air power. He saw the strength of air campaigns in World War I and oversaw the campaigns of World War II.

There were millions of WW1 veteran

s. The war broke out almost 100 years ago and all the veterans are now dead. The last one died last year (2011).

Because you could get hit by enemy planes !

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The door on a fighter jet is the whole 'canopy' that part is the wind screen and the roof. For some fighter jets it opens upwards and for others it slides back.

None, when the war ended, the air raids ended.

they were strongly criticised by the troops as they lived in grand conditions while the troops lived in poverty in the trenches. they also had little or no regard for the lives of their men. this caused a large majority of the troops to feel resent towards the seniour officers.

Airships were used to bomb cities such as London, although beyond their terror effect they did little significant damage, and did not hamper the Allies's war effort in any significant manner.

That is hard to answer as the Fokker Dr1 Triplane had 3 wings of different Length and Chord(which is the lenght of a section of the airfoil). Also the Upper wing had a large aileron that extended the chord and the length for a section of that wing.

I found a chord dimension of 3 Feet 3 & 3/8 Inches. I think that is the middle wing.

Length of each Wing.

Upper Wing (with aileron) =23 Ft 7 In

Middle Wing = 20 Ft 6 In

Lower Wing = 18 Ft 9 In

Tail- Horizontal, Width = 9 Ft 10 In

Tail - Length(front to back) = 5 Ft 3 In

Lafayette Squadron The Lafayette Escadrille was a unit of the French Air Force during WWI that was composed largely of American pilots. Click on the link to our friends at Wikipedia and pick up a few facts about this tough group of freedom fighters.

What is the value of a world war 1 trunk

Great War It was also called the War to End all Wars.

There were millions of participants in the War from a lot of countries and as a result, it would take far too much space to list the millions of names that would be covered.

The best approach would be to contact each countries Veterans Affairs departments. Many countries have an archive available, some of them online to make searching easier.

london, or londinium as it was known in roman times, was the ancient roman capital of the colony of brittania. it was a huge port city and trading center throughout the middle ages. it is now the modern-day capital of the united kingdom.

Luftwaffe is a German term for the air force branch of the army. The literal translation is Air Power. Luftwaffe is still used for name of the modern German air force. During WW1, the German air force was not called the Luftwaffe. They were simple the German Air Service. They also had a branch in the Navy called the Marine Air Force.

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tanks helped to break the stalemate that trench warfare created. They were also good at attacking trenches because bullets just bounced off the armour

No. They could not fire through the propellor without shooting it off. A Frenchman designed a propellor with a armored deflector shield that allowed him to shoot through it and any bullet that hit it would bounce off. Imagine how risky that was to fly next to him. His aircraft crashed and the Germans inspected it, hoping to find a secret design that could use. They were disappointed so they designed a cam mechanism that was driven off the engine and it would stop the gun from firing when the blade was aligned with the gun.

Early airplanes were used for reconnasance and photographing the enemy and spotting for artillery. Then the back seater began to carry small bombs that he dropped over the side. Later, bomb racks were mounted under the larger aircraft to carry bombs. They bombed infantry positions, or buildings of military significance. The first airplane to down a Zeppelin did it by dropping a bomb from above it.

For an attack and destruction of a balloon. The official notification in the London Gazette read:

Lt. William Avery Bishop, Can. Cav. and R.F.C.

For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He attacked a hostile balloon on the ground, dispersed the crew and destroyed the balloon, and also drove down a hostile machine which attacked him. He has on several other occasions brought down hostile machines.

Supplement to the London Gazette, 26 May 1917 (30095/5186)

Billy Bishop also recorded the most kills of enemy aircraft of any pilot except Baron von Richthofen, the famous Red Baron (who was on the other side).

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No, that was René Paul Fonck, a French Captain who scored 75 victories. Bishop had 72.

I stand corrected. I didn't know about Fonck.

the purpose of a land attack was to gain more land