Nieuport 11/16 Bébé vs Fokker Eindecker
Western Front 1916
The appearance in July 1915 of the Fokker E I heralded a reign of terror over the Western Front that the Allies called the 'Fokker Scourge'. The French Nieuport 11 was one type desperately thrown into action to counter the Fokkers. The swirling dogfights between this fighter - and its more powerful but more unwieldy stablemate, the Nieuport 16 - and a succession of improved Fokkers, the E II, E III and E IV, came to symbolise air combat in World War I. This book gives a detailed look at the developmental history of the fighters, contrasting the interrupter gear-equipped Fokker with the more improvised solution incorporated in the Nieuport - a…
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Weitere Autoren: Laurier, Jim (Illustr.) / Postlethwaite, Mark (Illustr.)
- ISBN: 978-1-78200-354-0
- EAN: 9781782003540
- Produktnummer: 20164936
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 80 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 4'434 KB
- Abbildungen: 40 b/w; 23 col
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Jon Guttman, a resident of Leesburg, Virginia, is currently research director for Historynet.com. Specialising in World War I aviation, he has written eleven titles for Osprey including the popular Aircraft of the Aces 66: Balloon-Busting Aces of World War I.
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