What was the best fighter of WW1?

[Erich]

ok bud you have to pick up the Albatross and the Fokker Dr I and the volume on the DVII. Osprey actually did two nice volumes on the DVII as well. the profiles might be a bit bright but still sehr Kühl nonetheless. Of clurse this is if your interested in German WW 1 a/c. they do cover the Spad and other Allied craft.....

[evangilder]

I will keep my eye out for those, sounds pretty cool.

[Erich]

I have the 1st volume of the Osprey D VII but not the second so I need to order it. I have found many of the Osprey books crap due to their loud profiles and mismatched captions under the pics, but the WW 1 pieces have done pretty well from what I hear.

any good books on the Jasta's as a whole anyone ?

[evangilder]

Jasta?

[Erich]

Jasta was the name for fighter wing used in WW 1, which then came under with several forming a division

[KraziKanuK]

Originally Posted by evangilder

I haven't seen any of the Squadron Signal books on WWI airplanes, just WWII ones. And they do have amazing shots. I just picked up 2 yesterday, one on the F4U and one on the C-47, both for future presentations. It has some good stuff, but the pictures are awesome.

You can order them from here.

http://www.squadron.com/SearchResult...tion&Submit=Go

The Osprey books.

http://canvaseagles.diplomacy.ca/osprey_book_list.htm

[Erich]

If you are in the staes any of the Barnes and Nobel books tores or Borders or ? make sure you have the ISBN # on hand as the help will be totally lost with out it.....

by the way the Fokker DVII rules the air

[Concorde247]

The Germans were the first airforce to get really organised with seperate jasta & bomber squadrons, ours of the RFC sometimes had one flight of fighters and another flight of bombers/recon aircraft in each squadron.

The best British Aircraft i think is the SE5A, its wolsey viper engine didnt suffer from the torque effect of the Gnome rotarys used in the Camel.#

The best German Fighter is the Fokker D8 monoplane. its been said that it could hang on its prop in the air like a helicopter, and fire its guns upwards. a worthy adversary

[KraziKanuK]

Another surce for info on WW1 a/c is the Windsock Datafiles. Expensive for the few pages they have though.

http://www.hrunway.com/shop/en-us/dept_3.html

Erich, Windsock has one on Jasta 5.

The NASM Museum has a book on the restoration of the Albatros they have. Very informative.

For Nieuport a/c,

http://mars.ark.com/~mdf/nieuport.html

[Nonskimmer]

Some really good info here! Thanks guys!

[Erich]

gents is the mag Windsock still in business ?

Also the pic I posted, does anyone have a clue from what albatross Jasta ??

vielen Dank

E ♪

[Gnomey]

Sopwith Camel.

[KraziKanuK]

Originally Posted by Erich

gents is the mag Windsock still in business ?

Also the pic I posted, does anyone have a clue from what albatross Jasta ??

vielen Dank

E ♪

Just a guess Erich but the Windsock Datafile Special on the Albatros has a profile of a simular painted D.V of Jasta 16 flown by a Lt Theodor Rumpel. Your photo is a D.V.

The nose is all black and the stripes (5) continue on to the fin.

Reference given: Cross and Cockade Journal Vol 8 No 4 Winter 1967 pg 374

The Special also has a photo of a reflector gunsight mounted in a D.III (pg2. Another trivia is that Fokker Waffenfabrik had 12 barreled motor driven machinegun. A photo can be seen on pg14 of the Arado book by Kranzhoff.

[HealzDevo]

Albatross IV I reckon was the best fighter of WW1.

[jrk]

i loved the se5a.i have several of that marque on my ceiling.sluggish with earliy powerplants but when produced with the hispano suiza/wolseley viper powerplant it became the vital killing machine.twas a sad day when one of britains finest pilots(albert ball)died in arguably britains finest fighting machine.