Next project: The Vickers FB.5. It has been claimed that the FB.5 was the first real fighter. This is based on the fact that it was indeed designed specifically to attack other planes. The fact that it was a two-seater is due to the idea that there had to be a second man to fire the gun. Similar in appearance to the FE.2, the "Fighting Biplane No. 5" was brought into being in mid-1914, several months before the war started. It didn't get to France and into service until the spring of 1915, after Roland Garros made himself the first fighter pilot in his Morane parasol. Nicknamed the "Gunbus", the FB.5 was the frontline British fighter for several months, until it proved incapable of dealing with the German Eindekkers.
