Sunday, January 28, 2007

Back to the Great War

Here are some aircraft from the Great War. Never mind that they are replicas of the originals, as the look, perform, sound just like the originals [engines included]. Given that the originals of these aircraft were designed and flying within 15 or so years of the first powered flight [Wright brothers or Richard Pearce is not an argument I want to get in to!] makes these machine even more incredible!

The pilots of these machines put on a great display of mock dogfighting, and generally showing their aircraft off to best advantage.

Top to bottom are:

Sopwith Camel
Fokker DR 152
Fokker D.V11
Avro 504K

Sopwith Camel
Fokker DR 152
Fokker D.V11Avro 504K

3 comments:

Hawk_180k said...

If that Camel is the same as the one at Wanaka it's from Peter Jackson's collection and has a rebuilt original (!) rotary engine. VERY nice sound to it :-)

Rodney said...

That's the one :-)

Hawk_180k said...

Very nice heh heh :)