Flyboys

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by nikimcbee

It would have Garros, Anthony Fokker, eindekkers, DH I's...

October 1914: the first aerial victory comes when five unarmed Be-2s force an unarmed Taube to land. The German pilot runs away, the Brits burn his plane and call it a win.

November 1914: the first aerial kill is made when two Frenchmen in a Voisin LA-3 shoot down an unarmed German two-seater with a Hotchkiss gun. Both of the Frenchmen survived the war.

Oh, yes, the great Roland Garros shoots down several Germans before a malfunction forces him to land behind enemy lines. Anthony Fokker views the captured Morane 'L' and promptly comes up with a working interrupter gear to arm his M-5 monoplanes, creating the E-1 and the 'Fokker scourge'.

I love those early days. I'd love to see Lanoe Hawker and his DH-2 against Manfred von Richtofen's Albatros D-II.

More than that I'd love to see a movie about the early naval struggles.