Fokker E.III Eindecker ... Full size.

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womenfly2

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.... although this EIII has a modern engine and ailerons, it gives you a good understanding of how the Eindecker series flew ..... plus it's way COOL!

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Enjoy,
WF2
 
Wow... CONSTANT control input!!

These guys must have been made of iron.
 
Funny little plane - not far from Lilienthal and the Wrights, it looks. As if it could hardly carry the gun... Must be fun - in a hot summer.
 
Excellent WF2,

Also loved the Blue Max movie soundtrack :applause::applause:
 
Monoplanes

Here's a question to you, WomenFly2.
Got me the movie "Angel's Wings". This French young man joins the air force and gets trained on a monoplane - Morane, I guess. Later, he flies it as a fighter. This plane looked quite agile and modern to me - much more modern than the E III.
Was it really already there so early on?
And was it as good as it looks in the movie, and if so, why is so rarely mentioned, when it comes to WW1 aviation?
Why were there so few monoplanes?
 
Hello Olham,
the Morane Saulnier "N" or "Bullett" is quite well-known in the early years of the war. It had been a racing plane close before the war, and was pressed into service because there were only X tails flying at that time.

It was the first plane having a fixed gun shooting through the propellor arc, in a way the first fighter scout of the war. There was no gear preventing the machine gun to shoot when one of the propellor blades were in the way, but merely two so-called metal "deflectors" that prevented the prop to splinter when a bullett hit it now and then. Those deflectors are visible on your first photo. It was alo a wing-warper, like the first Fokker monoplanes.

Unfortunately Roland Garros, the pilot inventing this system, had an engine problem above german territory, and failed to burn his plane completely. So Germany discovered this system, and ordered to invent a geared better one that was then mounted to the Fokker E.III monoplane.

The Morane is said to have been faster than the Fokker E.III, but it was a bad turner, and its flight characteristics made it hard to fly for average pilots; she was especially hard to land with its high stall speed or so i read.

Greetings,
Catfish
 
Thank you, CATFISH, informative as always.
So she looked more modern than she was (looks really manoeuverable in the film).
But wouldn't she still be a rather equal opponent to the E III then, in our game? I never "campaigned" the E III, cause the opponents here (DH 2 and Nieuport 11) are way too strong. But in the early days of 1915, when those were yet to come? Perhaps in Phase 4 - E III vs. Morane Saulnier?
 
Great video find WF2!

And yes, that soundtrack does sound familiar...! ;)
 
Super video WF2 thanks.

Yeah the Morane Parasol was like that too, take your hand off the stick and the craft would flip upwards due to very sensitive elevator that needed constant control adjustment and pressure.
One I want to do for P4 if we get there lol.

Like the N11 in P3 takes more time to keep it level etc.
WM has a custom made controller joystick with long handle connected to a base on the floor, and he does not notice the need for forward stick or backward stick much as such as many others do with a desktop stick for example - obviously if that had a force on there too may be more noticeable.

With P3 I tried to get that feel more with the Nieuports and Halb etc many craft were not "perfectly" balanced by the riggers as it is less meaningful if you have to constantly adjust anyway and then balance changes as fuel /guns/bomb loads empty.
 
Hi Olham54,

In that movie they fly Morane A-1's, parasol, awesome movie by-the-way!

Built in 1917 she was a fast and very maneuverable plane. Pilots did not trust the single wing design at the time and the plane was plagued with engine problems and structural issues during it life span, hence it fell out of service and appeal with the aircrew's.

There was over 1200 built, it was powered by a Gnome 150 & 160 hp rotary engines. There life was more in a trainer roll after front line service. Amazing plane for its time.

...and POL, looking forward to P3! Thank you and the OFF team for hanging in there.

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Enjoy,
WF2
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To add to Catfish' post..........

Garros managed to escape from a prisoner-of-war camp in Germany in February 1918 and rejoined the French army. On 5 October 1918, he was shot down and killed near Vouziers, Ardennes, a month shy of the end of the war and one day before his 30th birthday.

I don't know if it's true or not, but IIRC, I read that the synchronizer in his SPAD malfunctioned and shot his propeller to pieces. If it is true, it's extremely ironic. If not, it's a good story.

CJ
 
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