Whats your favorite aircraft from WWI??

[woljags]

its got to be the se5a for me

 

[johnbr]

Found this site.here is my favorite ww1 aircaft.
Welcome to The Aerodrome - Aces and Aircraft of World War I

 

[TheMustangRider]

This are the ones I like by their nationalities:

Great Britain - S.E.5a
France - Spad XIII
Germany - Albatros DIII

 

[fastmongrel]

The Bristol Fighter fast, manouverable for a two seater, sleek and deadly

 

[davebender]

Welcome to Landships! - A site for WW1 Military Hardware WW1 Military Modelling
I suspect German and French artillery spotting balloons contributed more towards the overall war effort then all heavier than air aircraft put together.

Artillery typically caused 55 to 75% of WWI battle casualties. Artillery forward observers located in captive balloons are a large part of the reason why field artillery was king of the WWI battlefield.

 

[nuuumannn]

Here's mine...

 

[DBII]

The pusher planes, the gunners had to be insane.

DBII

 

[Archilles]

The Sopwith Camel it has the most comfirmed air kills

 

[R Pope]

I like the early ones, the Eindecker, DH2, Nieuport 11.

 

[davebender]

If sleek = streamlined then you want an Albatros. Not many WWI era aircraft have such a refined fuselage shape.

 

[vikingBerserker]

I have to admit, it was a good looking aircraft.

 

[davebender]

I think Junkers was well on the way towards perfecting aluminum monoplanes when the Versallies treaty brought development to a screeching halt. 158 hp wasn't enough for the J9 but engines with twice that much hp were available by 1918.

Junkers J 9 / D.I - Specifications - Technical Data / Description (english)

 

[tyrodtom]

If sleek = streamlined then you want an Albatros. Not many WWI era aircraft have such a refined fuselage shape.
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The Albatross DV does have a beautiful streamlined fuselage, but it must have had a lot of drag somewhere else in it's design, the boxy looking SE5a with the same hp and just a 100 lb lighter was about 20 mph faster.

 

[davebender]

Albatros D.V - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The D.V entered service in May 1917 and, like the D.III before it, immediately began experiencing structural failures of the lower wing.[4] Indeed, anecdotal evidence suggests that the D.V was even more prone to wing failures than the D.III. The outboard sections of the upper wing also suffered failures, requiring additional wire bracing.[4] Furthermore, the D.V offered very little improvement in performance.[3] This caused considerable dismay among frontline pilots, many of whom preferred the older D.III. Manfred von Richthofen was particularly critical of the new aircraft. In a July 1917 letter, he described the D.V as "so obsolete and so ridiculously inferior to the English that one can't do anything with this aircraft." British tests of a captured D.V revealed that the aircraft was slow to maneuver, heavy on the controls, and tiring to fly.

Looking sleek is no guarantee of good performance. Otherwise the WWI era Albatros and WWII era P-39 would have been world beaters. 8)

 

[tyrodtom]

The Austrians built the Albatross DV also, but made a few changes in the wing structure, and didn't have the folding wing problem. They also left off the large spinner, and the aircraft was a few mph faster.
You can't look at a Albatross and see why it was so slow in comparision with some other ac of the same era, with equal power. I wonder if everbodies way of rating power was really equal.

 

[prem895]

For me, The Gotha G.IV BTW The Wingnut Wings 1/32 version is absolutly outstanding. Have one in the stash,but I need a hell of a lot more builds before I tackle that one

 

[N4521U]

Well for me, now, it's the F2.b since I have found a Davidson, RFC, who flew them in WWI and received the Military Cross and was a 6 victory ace. The long off GB WWI project will be his plane.

 

[meatloaf109]

Fokker E-III

 

[R Pope]

Later planes, I like the Sopwith Tripe's of Naval 10 "Black Flight", CO Collishaw.

 

[delcyros]

...would have allowed for some very neat monoplane fighter designs to be adopted.
The trend was towards the monoplane selected by the airforce for the main fighter 1919.

Selected by the previous competition was the Fokker E-V, which is well known:



however, most manufacturers submitted only monoplane designs by late 1918 for fighter A/C:
Fairly unknown is this one, a Daimler L11. We don´t know much details about this plane´s performance.


Fokker submitted four monoplane fighters, here the V21:


Dornier was working on a monoplane successor of the Do-D, which later became the Do-H:


The Junkers DI has been mentioned above, but this Eindecker from LFG Roland is possibly less well known:


The Pfalz Werke also worked on an improved Eindecker model, a successor to the D-X from the previous competition:


Siemens-Schuckert had a potential winner, the SSW-DVI, to come with a hardpoint for external loads (a drop tank like in Dornier´s proposal):


Plenty of monoplanes in the competition...