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World War One Aircraft

Oswald Boelcke Developed Tactics For Fighter Pilots

From mid-1915 until early-1916 Germany had enjoyed a period of air superiority over the Allies on the Western Front, primarily due to the introduction of the Fokker Eindecker monoplane which was ...
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Another Fokker Eindecker At Omaka

The third of four full scale Fokker Eindecker aircraft in New Zealand has recently been seen on the display line at Omaka Aerodrome in Blenheim, New Zealand. This remarkably accurate World War One ...
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Fokker Eindecker Takes To The Skies

Strong winds during the Wings Over Wairarapa Air Festival at Hood Aerodrome in November meant that The Vintage Aviator's latest reproduction aircraft, a German Fokker Eindecker monoplane, was not ...
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On The Wings Of The Morning - WW1 Poetry

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 ...
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Pfalz D.III - From The Blue Max Movie

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 ...
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Largest Formation Of WW1 Aircraft Since The 1920s

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 ...
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Fokker Dr.1 - Lothar von Richthofen

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 ...
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Halberstadt D.IV

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), ...
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Fokker Dr.1 Triplane - Manfred von Richthofen

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 ...
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Early WW1 Designs From the Aircraft Manufacturing Co

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 ...
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Bert Pither's 1910 Monoplane

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 ...
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Dogfight! World War One Aircraft Displays

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 ...
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Fritz Rumey - A WW1 German Flying Ace

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 ...
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Two Royal Aircraft Factory F.E.2b's

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 ...
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Sopwith F.1 Camel

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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World War One Aircraft

Oswald Boelcke Developed Tactics For Fighter Pilots

Another Fokker Eindecker At Omaka

Fokker Eindecker Takes To The Skies

On The Wings Of The Morning - WW1 Poetry

Pfalz D.III - From The Blue Max Movie

Largest Formation Of WW1 Aircraft Since The 1920s

Fokker Dr.1 - Lothar von Richthofen

Halberstadt D.IV

Fokker Dr.1 Triplane - Manfred von Richthofen

Early WW1 Designs From the Aircraft Manufacturing Co

Bert Pither's 1910 Monoplane

Dogfight! World War One Aircraft Displays

Fritz Rumey - A WW1 German Flying Ace

Two Royal Aircraft Factory F.E.2b's

Sopwith F.1 Camel