The Type N was designed and built by Aeroplanes Morane-Saulnier, Societe anonyme de Constructions Aeronautiques in Paris, the prototype being taken to a flying meeting held at Aspera in Vienna in late June 1914, the pilot being Roland Garros.
The Kingfisher was designed in 1957 by Rex Beisel of the Chance Vought Aircraft Division of United Aircraft Corp as a two-seat scout and observation aircraft for the US Navy, with the capability of being launched from catapults on board battleships, cruisers, and a number of destroyers.
The Tabloid was one of the outstanding aeroplanes produced in Great Britain before the beginning of World War I and, in the hands of Australian born test pilot Harry Hawker, caused a sensation at Hendon on 29 November 1913 when first demonstrated to the public.
In order to design an aircraft that was superior to any produced in Germany, the design team at Sopwith in early 1916 designed a triplane, this machine having three narrow chord wings but the wing area giving plenty of lift.
The Pfalz D.XI appeared at the June 1918 German fighter trials at Adlershof and was shown in two models, one with a Mercedes D.IIIa engine and the other with a BMW III engine.
Following the interest, and some success, with Triplanes by other manufacturers in Europe, Pfalz developed the Dr.1 Triplane, the prototype of which was powered by a 119 kw (160-hp) Siemens Halske Sh III geared rotary engine.
The Plalz D.III or Scout was built by the Pfalz Flugzeug Werke on the Rhine River and designed by Rudolfo Gehringer following the completion of orders for the E-type monoplanes.
Prior to World War I George Handasyde and Paul Martin built a number of designs of other manufacturers, eventually becoming a major supplier of fighting aircraft to the allies during World War I.
The lack of potent fighter aircraft was evident in the United Kingdom in 1930 when, during exercises, the Hawker Hart bombers of the RAF were too fast for the then RAF fighter aircraft, the Armstrong Whitworth Siskin, to intercept.
The Halberstadter Flugzeugwerke, formerly the German office of the Bristol & Colonial Aeroplane Company, produced a series of fighter aircraft for the German Airforce prior to and during World War I.
The Fokker D.I and D.IV were developments by Fokker of the M.18 prototype, the D.I being the production variant of the M.18z, the ‘z’ indicating Zweistielig, meaning a two strut or two bay biplane.
For a period in the 1920s Thomas-Morse fighters were the main equipment of the front-line pursuit squadrons of the US Army and US Marine Corps and were produced in large numbers.
It seems there were two Junkers J.1 aircraft, the first, the Blechesel,known as the‘Tin Donkey” or “Sheet Metal Donkey” being the world’s first practical all-metal monoplane and appeared at the beginning of World War
The Aeronca K Scout series of light aircraft was a side-by-side two-seat light cabin monoplane introduced to the Aeronca range of aircraft in 1937. Powered by a 30-kw (40-hp) Aeronca E-113-CBD engine, it was subsequently produced in a number of models with a variety of power plants to meet customer