Monday, May 2, 2011

Planes

World war 1 was the first war where aircraft's were deployed on a large scale. Aeroplanes were mostly used for scouting before the world war then they came out with bomber planes, ground attack planes and the fighter planes. Many of the lessons from aircrafts in the world war helped prepare and learn what to do and what not to do in the future.

The Bristol Fighter was British plane that was a heavily armed, 2 seated fighter plane that could manouver very well. The Bristol was one of the most sucessful planes of the war. There was 3,101 Bristols made and it was armed with a Vicker machine gun and 2-3 Lewis machine guns. Also the Canadian ace Andrew McKeever achieved the highest amount of kills with the Bristol Fighter which was 31 kills!

Caproni Ca.40 heavy bomber prototype
The Caproni Ca.4 were designed to be effective in combat and also unleash a fury of bombs. The Ca.4 could deliver large payloads of bombs to distant targets and was also armed with up to 8 machine guns. It was used by Italy and a total of 32 Ca.4's were built.

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