During the First World War many participants of the conflict wrote poetry about their experiences—the likes of Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Brookes and many others are well known—often due ....
The German Pfalz D.III began to appear at the front in August 1917, when the first German units were equipped with the type. Along with its Albatros (D.V) and Fokker (D.VII) contemporaries, this was ....
The Vintage Aviator Limited (TAVL) is a constructor of original World War One aircraft, and the company owns and operates the largest collection of original and reproduction First World War aircraft ....
This partially yellow Fokker Dr.1 represents aircraft 454/17 which was flown by Oberleunant Lothar von Richthofen, younger brother of Manfred von Richthofen ('The Red Baron'). Like his brother, when ....
The Halberstadt D.IV was one of the final single-seat fighter models produced by the Halberstadter Flugzeug-Werke company during the war. While the company's D.I and D.II models (produced in 1916), ....
This full size replica aircraft has been seen at many different New Zealand airshows in three different colour schemes! This aircraft (ZK-FOK) now represents the most famous Fokker Dr.1 triplane of ....
Early in 1915 the British had not worked out how to produce an interrupter mechanism which would allow their machine guns to fire through a spinning aircraft propeller. So (now legendary) aircraft ....
In 1910, pioneer New Zealand aviator Bert Pither designed and build a Bleriot-style monoplane, which he claimed to have flown at Oreti Beach near Invercargill. Unfortunately there were no witnesses ....
The Vintage Aviator's collection of World War One aircraft continues to grow, and periodically these amazing aircraft are put on display for the public to see, hear and smell. The video clip ....
Fritz Rumey, a First World War German flying ace shot down more enemy fighter aircraft in his short flying career than The Red Baron did. Rumey scored a total of 35 victories against fighters while ....
Initially reaching the Western Front in 1915, the ungainly looking R.A.F. F.E.2 pusher aircraft was one of the unsung stars of the First World War as it was one of the few aircraft that saw near ....
The Sopwith Camel fighter was one of the deadliest aircraft of World War One -- for both the British pilots flying the type, and for the German adversaries that faced the Camel in combat..
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