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Heroes of Aviation (1918)
IRLF AURENCE LATOURETTE DEIGGS HEROES OF AVIATION Copyright, International Film Service, Inc MAJOR RAOUL LUFBERY "Greatest of American flyers, who was kilbd May 19, 191S, with an official score of 18. HEROES OF AVIATION BY LAURENCE LA TOURETTE DRIGGS ILLUSTRATED FROM PHOTOGRAPHS BOSTON LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY 1919 Copyright, 1918, BY LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY. All rights reserved NorfcoooU Set up and electrotyped by J. S Gushing Co., Norwood, Mass., U.S.A ) TO OUR HEROES OF AVIATION THIS BOOK IS GRATEFULLY DEDICATED 441077 PREFACE THE author is deeply indebted to M. Jacques Mor- tane and La Guerre Aerienne of Paris for portions of the material used herein relating to the French Air Fighters. M. Mortane, himself an airman and the devoted friend of all fliers, has done more for the cause of Aviation in France than any other living man. His researches in war-aviation will for the years to come form a most valuable history of the birth and growth of the Fourth Arm in Warfare. I desire to here express my further obligations to the London periodicals, Flight, Flying, Aeroplane and Aeronautics, for many of the incidents relating to the British pilots. The inborn reluctance of the British youth to speak of his own heroic deeds prevents the world from esti- mating the marvelous part he has played in sweeping Germany from the skies. The Hun pilots flood the world with the information of their victories. It was not until I visited England as the guest of the British Government in the fall of 1918 that I discovered that twenty British airmen have exceeded by over one hundred the number of victories claimed by the best twenty Aces of the Huns. -
Rototos En Guerre : Gnome
La Société des Moteurs Gnome et Rhône Rototos en guerre : Gnome Un atelier de soudure à la Société des Moteurs Gnome en 1914. (Collection Andrée Lhérault). 1 La Société des Moteurs Gnome et Rhône Rototos Gnome en guerre Rototos en guerre : Gnome moteurs. Dès le départ, au sein de la Société des Moteurs Un atelier est créé pour le montage des moteurs à Gnome(SMG), les responsabilités sont clairement Paris, boulevard Kellermann, futur siège de la société partagées entre les frères Seguin. Laurent s’occupe du après l’absorption de la Société des moteurs Le Rhône développement des moteurs d’avion et Louis gère les à la fin de l’année 1914. Pour le ministère de la finances et la production des usines. Ce dernier prési- guerre, cette fusion des deux motoristes partageant la dera la SMG de 1905 jusqu’à sa mort, survenue à même technologie n’a qu’un but : augmenter la pro- 1 l’âge de 51 ans en 1918 . Pendant ces quatorze an- duction des moteurs, principale cause de retard des nées, il s’est employé inlassablement à développer la livraisons d’avions. Les commandes militaires sont vente et la production des moteurs d’avion. alors importantes et les usines Gnome peuvent n’en honorer qu’un tiers. Des bancs d’essai sont installés à Gennevilliers dès 1910 pour des essais au sol, au grand dam des habitants, en particulier des argenteuillais, qui se plaignent des vrombissements nocturnes, car la fon- derie et les bancs d’essais tournent jour et nuit. Com- plétant les essais statiques aux bancs, des hydroglis- seurs sont utilisés sur la Seine pour des essais dyna- miques : relevés de consommation, relevés des puis- sances et de température, choix des hélices se font sur la Seine sur ces engins bruyants. -
NIEUPORT 11/16 BÉBÉ FOKKER EINDECKER Western Front 1916
NIEUPORT 11/16 BÉBÉ FOKKER EINDECKER Western Front 1916 JON GUTTMAN © Osprey Publishing • www.ospreypublishing.com NIEUPORT 11/16 BÉBÉ FOKKER EINDECKER Western Front 1916 JON GUTTMAN © Osprey Publishing • www.ospreypublishing.com CONTENTS Introduction 4 Chronology 8 Design and Development 10 Technical Specifications 21 The Strategic Situation 37 The Combatants 42 Combat 53 Statistics and Analysis 69 Aftermath 73 Further Reading 78 Index 80 © Osprey Publishing • www.ospreypublishing.com INTRODUCTION Mechanics hold fast to a Fokker E III while its pilot warms up the If anyone in the major powers that plunged into World War I still dismissed the aeroplane’s 100hp Oberursel U I rotary engine before being military value of the aeroplane in the early summer of 1914, that scepticism had been unleashed against Allied effectively quashed by the end of the year. Indeed, everyone was taking air power aircraft in the spring of 1916. seriously by Christmas 1914, and the first exchanges of gunfire between opposing (Greg VanWyngarden) reconnaissance aeroplanes had broken out, from Flanders to Galicia to Tsingtao. 4 © Osprey Publishing • www.ospreypublishing.com Inevitably, the quest for control ofof thethe skies led to experiments in aircraft specializedecialized in that task. Given the unprecedentedd nature of the coming struggle, these tookk severalseveral forms, including machine gun-armed-armed two-seat pusher aircraft and lumberingering twin-engined multi-gun flying fortresses,esses, before the formula ultimately fell uponupon swift, agile single-seat scouts armed withwith a machine gun fixed to fire in whicheverchever direction the pilot pointed his aeroplane.plane. Since most scouts were tractor aircraft,rcraft, firingfiring a machine gun through the airscrewcrew without shooting it to pieces posed a problem,m, which was met in several ways.