BE2 https://airforces.fr/category/aircraft/old-aircraft/world-war-1/be2/ ANGLAIS AERONAUTIQUE - HISTOIRE DE L'AVIATION - Gustave Whitehead, Maxime Lenoir Thu, 08 Oct 2020 18:05:51 +0000 fr-FR hourly 1 WWI AIR COMBAT – WHAT IT CAME DOWN TO https://airforces.fr/2015/11/11/wwi-air-combat-what-it-came-down-to/ Wed, 11 Nov 2015 18:54:17 +0000 http://airforces.fr/?p=10205 What is more natural than looking back over major aviation innovations of the Great War today, the anniversary of the Armistice? Here is a very interesting video posted by the BBC on how the fighter pilots dealt with reconnaissance, bombing…

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]]> What is more natural than looking back over major aviation innovations of the Great War today, the anniversary of the Armistice? Here is a very interesting video posted by the BBC on how the fighter pilots dealt with reconnaissance, bombing missions and dogfight techniques. Primitive flight controls are well explained as is the interest of performing missions with a triplane aircraft – three sets of wings are necessarily more narrow, providing the pilot with a better visual field.

From the flimsy Blériot XI to Sopwiths and Fokkers, the first aces developed early methods that are always taught in fighter schools even though beyond-visual-range air combat has taken over since. Major Charles Tricornot de Rose was considered by many as the father of air fighting as early as 1914. Then as shown in this video, the German ace Oswald Boelcke laid out a first set of rules for dogfighting called the Dicta Boelcke. Pilots’ life expectancy was not measured in years but in weeks.

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