FE 2b/d vs Albatros Scouts

FE 2b/d vs Albatros Scouts

AngličtinaEbook
James F. Miller
Bloomsbury Publishing
EAN: 9781780963266
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Featuring specially commissioned full-colour artwork, this is the story of the epic confrontation between the FE 2, the British two-seater fighter, and the formidable single-seater Albatros D scouts.In the spring of 1916 the deployment of the RFC's FE 2 with its rotary engine 'pusher' configuration affording excellent visibility for its pilot and observer, and removing the need for synchronized machine guns helped wrest aerial dominance from Imperial Germany's Fokker Eindecker monoplanes, and then contributed to retaining it throughout the Somme battles of that fateful summer.However, by autumn German reorganization saw the birth of the Jagdstaffeln (specialised fighter squadrons) and the arrival of the new Albatros D scout, a sleek inline-engined machine built for speed and twin-gun firepower. Thus, for the remainder of 1916 and well into the next year an epic struggle for aerial superiority raged above the horrors of the Somme and Passchendaele battlefields, pitting the FE 2 against the better-armed and faster Albatros scouts that were focused on attacking and destroying their two-seater opponents.This book analyses these two fighters together and casts new light on the rapid evolution of early aerial warfare. In the end the Germans would regain air superiority, and hold it into the following summer with the employment of their new Jagdgeschwader (larger fighter groupings), but the FE 2 remained a tenacious foe that inflicted many casualties some of whom were Germany's best aces (including 'The Red Baron').
EAN 9781780963266
ISBN 1780963262
Typ produktu Ebook
Vydavatel Bloomsbury Publishing
Datum vydání 20. ledna 2014
Stránky 80
Jazyk English
Země United Kingdom
Autoři James F. Miller
Ilustrátoři James F. Miller; Jim Laurier; Mark Postlethwaite
Série Duel
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