The Best Fighters of WW1 and Their Tactics On 28 Feb 2023, the WW1 AHT Pilots and Friends had their final chat session of the Winter 2033/23. The Session provides a summary of the Scout Development over the 4 years discussed by Year in the previous sessions. It also covered the tactics that evolved as […]
As our Final Chat of this Winter season (22/23), the WW1 AHT pilots and friends will review the best Fighting Scouts of WW1 which cannot be done without framing the progression of aerial warfare from unarmed reconnaissance in 1914 to Wings of Fighters in mortal combat at astonishing altitudes over N France without oxygen by […]
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The WW AHT Panel of Pilots from NZ and UK explored the good, bad and the ugly of both Allied and German Fighting Scouts that graced the skies over N France in 1917 from their experiences of flying them today. From the Albatros to the DH5, the Fokker DR1 to the SE5a, the Sopwith Camel […]
This is the third of our monthly chat sessions where we have been discussing the evolution of the Scout aeroplane as a fighter aircraft year by year with our pilots and their friends that fly them today. 1917 was a crucial year for the development of fighter tactics setting some of the primary principles that […]
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From one who was there on the night. ‘I attended the first session of the WW1 AHT Winter Chats Programme 2022, and it was a fascinating insight into the development of the scout (fighter) aircraft of WW1 during 1914-1915. The panel presentation involved a range of pilots with current experience of flying some of these […]
Some amazing aeroplanes made it to Northern France at the start of WW1. None of them were armed. The idea of air combat grew as they found themselves in the same air space wishing to deny the other side uninterrupted reconnaissance. Pistols, rifles, even grappling hooks lowered on a rope were the first attempts to […]
Almost everyone has heard of the Fokker Scourge and the impact that the Eindecker had on the battle for control of the air over N France for the 12 months from mid-1915. By the middle of 1916 the Allies had stepped through the next technical evolution with the Nieuport 11 and the DH2. However, their […]
One of the more bizarre early Scout aircraft was the massive (48ft wingspan) pusher FE2b. Its design reflects the early quandary about forward firing and rearward protection. The pilot sat in the rear cockpit and the observer gunner moved his heavy MG to fire from a mount on the front of the cockpit or on […]
