But the remarkable advances made in aviation during World War One are still at the core of air power today, says Dr Peter Gray. To say the first aeroplanes used in WW1 were extremely basic is ...

Aiming a machine gun through a biplane's propellers was no easy feat. Then along came an invention that made it possible to ...

Long before the B-29 ruled the skies, Germany built a wooden giant—the Zeppelin-Staaken R.6. With an enclosed cockpit and a wingspan rivaling WWII bombers, it was WW1’s most ambitious aircraft and a ...

A photograph is of the FE2d aircraft named Falkland, a two-seat Pusher aircraft operated as a fighter by the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War A discovery by the Museum and National ...

was widely used in German propaganda ... with machine-gun fire from low-flying aircraft. The OED is running a special set of appeals for WW1 words, including Zepps/Zeppelins in a cloud and ...

But the remarkable advances made in aviation during World War One are still at the core of air power today, says Dr Peter Gray. To say the first aeroplanes used in WW1 were extremely basic is ...