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bomber planes,
Blackburn Kangaroo
DATE: 1918
DESCRIPTION: Twin engine Biplane
MANUFACTURER: Blackburn Aeroplane and Motor Co.
NATIONALITY: Britain
ENGINE: Two 255 hp Rolls Royce Falcon 12 cylinder inlines
SPEED: 100 mph
RANGE: 8 hours
CEILING: 10,500 ft
ARNAMENT: 930 lb of bombs, 2 machine guns
WINGSPAN: 74ft 10in
WEIGHT: 8,017 lbs
INFO: The Kangaroo was used for passengers after the war.
Breguet Br.M.5
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DATE: 1915
DESCRIPTION: single engine biplane
MANUFACTURER: Breguet
NATIONALITY: France
ENGINE: One 220 hp Renault in line V
SPEED: 88 mph
RANGE: 435 Miles
CEILING: 14,110 ft
ARNAMENT: 661 lb of bombs, 2 machine guns
WINGSPAN: 57ft 9in
WEIGHT: 4,235 lbs
INFO: This plane was slow and an easy target. Visibility for the bomber and pilot was bad. The aircraft was used for night missions. .
Short Bomber
DATE: 1916
DESCRIPTION: single engine biplane
MANUFACTURER: Short Brothers Ltd.
NATIONALITY: Britain
ENGINE: One 250 hp Rolls Royce Eagle III 12 Cylinder
SPEED: 77 mph
RANGE: 6 hours
CEILING: 9,500 ft
ARNAMENT: 920 lb of bombs, 1 machine gun
WINGSPAN: 85ft
WEIGHT: 6,800 lbs
INFO: This plane had four wheeled landing gear and was a spin off of a sea plane. .
Friedichshafen G.III
DATE: 1917
DESCRIPTION: Twin engine biplane
MANUFACTURER: Flugezeugbau Friedrichshafen GmbH
NATIONALITY: Germany
ENGINE: Two 260 hp Mercedes D IVa 6 cylinder in line pushers
SPEED: 85 mph
RANGE: 5 hours
CEILING: 14,765 ft
ARNAMENT: 3,307 lb of bombs, 3 machine guns
WINGSPAN: 77ft 9in
WEIGHT: 8646 lbs
INFO: This was used as a night bomber and after the war as a passenger plane.
Gotha G.V.
DATE: 1917
DESCRIPTION: Twin engine biplane
MANUFACTURER: Gothaer Waggonfabrik AG
NATIONALITY: Germany
ENGINE: Two 260 hp Mercedes D IVa V 6 cylinder inlines
SPEED: 88 mph
RANGE: 6 hours
CEILING: 21,325 ft
ARNAMENT: 1,102 lb of bombs, 3 machine guns
WINGSPAN: 77ft 9in
WEIGHT: 8,745 lbs
INFO: This aircraft was mainly used for night bombing and were very difficult to shoot down. Hard to land and fragile, more were destroyed during landings than in combat.
Trainer planes,
Curtiss JN-4 Jenny
DATE: 1916
DESCRIPTION: Single engine biplane
MANUFACTURER: Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Co
NATIONALITY: United States
ENGINE: One 90 hp Curtiss OX-5 * cylinder
SPEED: 75 mph
RANGE: 2.25 hours
CEILING: 11,000 ft
WINGSPAN: 43ft 7in
WEIGHT: 2,130 lbs
INFO: This aircraft was used as a trainer and was never used in combat. After the war, it was used for such things as barn storming and mail delivery.
fighter planes
R.A.F. F.E.2b
DATE: 1915
MANUFACTURER: Royal Aircraft Factory
NATIONALITY: Britain
ENGINE: One 160 hp Beardmore in line pusher
SPEED: 91mph
RANGE: 2.5 hours
CEILING: 11,000 ft
ARNAMENT: Two machine guns
WINGSPAN: 47ft 9in
WEIGHT: 1,289 lbs
INFO: This aircraft was designed as a pusher to solve the problem of shooting through the propeller.
SPAD S.VIII
DATE: 1917
MANUFACTURER: Societe Anonyme Pour L'Aviation et ses Derives
NATIONALITY: France
ENGINE: One 235 hp Hispano-Suiza 8 cylinder in line
SPEED: 119 mph
RANGE: 2. hours
CEILING: 18,000 ft
ARNAMENT: Two machine guns
WINGSPAN: 26ft 11in
WEIGHT: 1,801 lbs
INFO: The SPAD would climb like a homesick angle ind was favored by many flyers such as Eddie Rickenbacker. The main problem with plane was that when the power was reduced, it would drop like a sewer lid.
Nieuport 17
DATE: 1915
MANUFACTURER: Society Anonyme Etablissements Nieuport
NATIONALITY: France
ENGINE: One 110 hp LeRhone rotary
SPEED: 110 mph
RANGE: 2 hours
CEILING: 17,390 ft
ARNAMENT: One machine gun
WINGSPAN: 26ft 10in
WEIGHT: 1,246 lbs
INFO: This aircraft was one of the great fighters of the War. It was a fast climber but had a habit of losing its lower wing in a steep dive..
IAlbatros D.III
DATE: 1917
MANUFACTURER: Albatros Werke GmbH
NATIONALITY: Germany
ENGINE: One 175 hp Mercedes in line 6 cylinder
SPEED: 109 mph
RANGE: 2 hours
CEILING: 18,044 ft
ARNAMENT: Two machine guns
WINGSPAN: 29ft 8in
WEIGHT: 1,949 lbs
INFO: The Albatros was one of the main planes that was responsable for Bloody April in 1917. It was flown by aces such as Udet, Voss, and von Richthofen to name a few.
Bristol Scout D
DATE: 1915
MANUFACTURER: British and Colonial Aeroplane Co. Ltd.
NATIONALITY: Britain
ENGINE: One 80 hp LeRhone rotary
SPEED: 100mph
RANGE: 2 hours
CEILING: 16,000 ft
ARNAMENT: One machine gun
WINGSPAN: 24ft 7in
WEIGHT: 1,250 lbs
INFO: This was a scout but it was equiped with a michine gun but was soon replaced by more efficient fighters.
Fokker D.VII
DATE: 1918
MANUFACTURER: Fokker Flugzeug-Werke GmbH
NATIONALITY: Germany
ENGINE: One 160 hp Mercedes DIII in line 6 cylinder
SPEED: 124 mph
RANGE: 1.5 hours
CEILING: 19,685 ft
ARNAMENT: Two machine guns
WINGSPAN: 29ft 3in
WEIGHT: 1,870 lbs
INFO: This aircraft was the best that Germany had. It could hang on its prop and shoot the underside of an enemy's aircraft.
Naval Warfare
FRENCH NAVY - War in the Mediterranean is expected to involve France lining up against the combined fleets of Italy and Austria-Hungary. Building on the "Entente Cordiale" with Britain, France has mostly handed over the defence of her northern waters to the Royal Navy and concentrated her forces in the Mediterranean as the "1st Armeé Navale". By August 1914, under the command of Adm de Lapeyrère, this fleet includes most of the major warships operational in the somewhat ageing French Navy -
all six old battleships,
eleven pre-dreadnoughts,
dreadnoughts "Jean Bart" and "Courbet" ( with "France" and "Paris" completing, and three more to follow),
11 out of 18 armoured cruisers,
four out of 14 protected cruisers,
half the fleet of around 86 destroyers and 34 submarines.
The first duty of the "Armeé Navale" is to escort French African troops to France and then blockade the Austrian Fleet in the Adriatic. It then goes on to participate in the Dardanelles and Suez campaigns, in operations off Palestine and Syria, the landings at Salonika and later operations against the Greek Navy, the evacuation of the Serbian Army, and anti-submarine warfare against the German U-boats.
ITALIAN NAVY - In the case of Italy, instead of siding with Austria, the country remains neutral for now. The main Italian Fleet, based at Taranto under Vice Adm HRH Luigi di Savoia, Duke of Abbruzzi, includes most of the major warships -
all three completed dreadnoughts (again with three more to follow),
eight pre-dreadnoughts,
eight out of ten armoured cruisers,
light and scout cruisers,
destroyers, torpedo boats and submarines.
Other vessels are based in Albanian, Aegean and Libyan waters. When war is declared in May 1915, the Navy's first task is to join with the French in the blockade of the Austrians. Not content with this passive role, together with defending the flat Italian Adriatic coastline and supporting the land campaign in the northern reaches of the Adriatic, the Italians come to specialise in unconventional warfare with M.A.S.-type motor torpedo boats, caterpillar-tracked climbing boats, and frogmen. In doing so, they sink two out of the four Austrian dreadnoughts and one coast defence battleship.
RUSSIAN FLEET - The Black Sea Fleet is under the command of Vice-Adm Eberhardt with
five pre-dreadnought battleships
(two dreadnoughts are completed in 1915)
two light cruisers
destroyers, torpedo boats and submarines,
It is soon on the offensive - attacking Turkish supply lines along the southern Black Sea to their forces fighting in the Caucasus, cutting the vital coal-trade between Zonguldak and Constantinople, and blockading the Bosphorus, both with surface forces and offensive minelaying. Submarines later join in. Seaplane carriers commissioned in 1916 also take part in raids on enemy bases.
18th November - Russian battleship "Evstafi". "Goeben" and "Breslau" encounter the Russians off Cape Sarych, Crimea. Although outnumbered, they are soon in action. "Goeben" is hit once, but in return badly damages the Russian flagship, the four-year old "Evstafi".