2 Kills
 

Having been fascinated by Major James T.B. McCudden, R.A.F ever since I was a kid I build a replica of his Famous British SE5a and to this day chase various aircraft all over the skies in search of the ACE Status.

Taken from Major McCuddens' Log book 1915

The Fokker had by now turned and was coming towards our machine, nose-on, slightly above. Not having a gun mounting to fire in that direction, I stood up, with my Lewis gun to the shoulder, and fired as he passed over our right wing. He carried on flying in the opposite direction until he was lost to view.
We were by now over Douai Aerodrome, and, looking down, I could see several enemy machines leaving the ground. I watched them for a while, and then noticed the Fokker climbing up under our tail. I told my pilot to turn, and then fired half a drum of Lewis at the Fokker at 300 yards range. The Fokker seemed rather surprised that we had seen him, and immediately turned off to my left rear as I was facing the tail.
After this he climbed about 300 feet above us, and then put his nose down to fire. Having been waiting for him, I opened fire at once, and he promptly pulled out of his dive and retired to the distance of 500 yards, at which distance he remained for every time he came closer I fired a short burst, which had the desired effect of keeping him at a distance.

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Are the two kills 915 transmissions you dropped on unsuspecting motorists? ;)

Gee, I wish he'd said: "I had that Fokker in my sights!"

Not another Fokker thread. There's one crashed round here somewhere at present.

The WW1 aviators were all the more remarkable for even attempting to get those kites off the ground and land them again, let alone conducting an arial war. When you see them up close, the aeroplanes are literally baling wire and canvas.

I took the kids to an air museaum just recently, and to my surprise, in a cabinet were some pieces of the airframe and fittings of most famous Fokker of all, downed on the Somme in 1918 and souveniered by ground troops.

A fascinating time in aviation and in warfare- although climbing up into the freezing dawn air over France in 1916, I'm sure none of them thought so at the time.

Have said that a couple of times in my career but unfortunately it was a F28, a modern Fokker.

Knew a gent who flew Sopwith Camels in the Great War, aka WW1. The stories he would tell were very interesting. It was nothing like depicted in movies like "Flyboys" and such. Nothing...

Not quite as neat but i went to a RC warplane exhibition in Delaware last year and watching the WWI guys do their 'dogfights' was very cool. Beautiful planes.

The maneuvers they preform are many times much more rugged than what we can do in the airplanes.

First they have no human based "G" limit as there is not a human on board, and second the airplanes can pull higher "G's" because they are usually built of composite materials and not built to last 10-20 years of flying.