FE 2b/d vs Albatros Scouts
Western Front 1916-17
In the spring of 1916 the deployment of the RFC's FE 2 - with its rotary engine 'pusher' configuration affording excellent visibility for its pilot and observer, and removing the need for synchronized machine guns - helped wrest aerial dominance from Imperial Germany's Fokker Eindecker monoplanes, and then contributed to retaining it throughout the Somme battles of that fateful summer. However, by autumn German reorganization saw the birth of the Jagdstaffeln (specialised fighter squadrons) and the arrival of the new Albatros D scout, a sleek inline-engined machine built for speed and twin-gun firepower. Thus, for the remainder of 1916 and we…
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Weitere Autoren: Laurier, Jim (Illustrator) (Illustr.) / Postlethwaite, Mark (Cover Illustrator) (Illustr.) / Miller, James F. (Illustr.)
- ISBN: 978-1-78096-325-9
- EAN: 9781780963259
- Produktnummer: 14802483
- Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 80 S.
- Masse: H18.5 cm x B24.8 cm x D0.5 cm 260 g
- Abbildungen: 50 b/w; 14 col
- Gewicht: 260
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
Über den Autor
James F. Miller is a married father of two who lives in Naples, Florida. A commercial pilot and lifelong student of all aspects of aviation, his current research focuses on the middle years of World War I.
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