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Title: A few WWI planes
Post by: Treize69 on January 26, 2009, 01:55:48 PM
If they DO make a WWI addon, heres a few planes I'd like to see added, in the order of their implimentation.

Bombers go from 1915-1918, fighters got from 1914-1918.

(http://80thfs.homestead.com/WWITimeline.jpg)

 :rock
Title: Re: A few WWI planes
Post by: CAVPFCDD on January 26, 2009, 02:01:14 PM
cant forget the greatest wwI plane

(http://www.whatalovelywar.co.uk/war/images/snoopy.gif)

i believe its a sopwith camel
Title: Re: A few WWI planes
Post by: Treize69 on January 26, 2009, 02:02:16 PM
In First Eagles, one of the pilot pictures you can select for yourself in the Campaign mode is Snoopy. :)
Title: Re: A few WWI planes
Post by: Saxman on January 26, 2009, 02:05:46 PM
Missing the Sopwith Snipe from that list.
Title: Re: A few WWI planes
Post by: Treize69 on January 26, 2009, 02:07:48 PM
Ialso don't see the sopwith Dolphin or Morane monoplane fighters.

Stupid intrawebs, I got that from http://www.theaerodrome.com/aircraft/ and pasted the two timelines into one image.

I think they missed a few bombers too.
Title: Re: A few WWI planes
Post by: MiloMorai on January 26, 2009, 02:54:33 PM
Want to see a real AEG GI.V?

http://www.aviation.technomuses.ca/collections/artifacts/aircraft/AEG_GIV/
Title: Re: A few WWI planes
Post by: Enker on January 26, 2009, 03:46:22 PM
cant forget the greatest wwI plane

(http://www.whatalovelywar.co.uk/war/images/snoopy.gif)

i believe its a sopwith camel
The Red Baron's most famous plane was the Fokker Dr. I.

Also, the list is missing the Nieuport 24 and 28.
Title: Re: A few WWI planes
Post by: Treize69 on January 26, 2009, 03:55:14 PM
Also, the list is missing the Nieuport 24 and 28.

Nieuport 24 was just an upgraded 17, so they probably didn't think it deserved its own entry. And the N.28 is the fighter everyone tries to forget- the USAC only had it because the French rejected it for service, and the Americans stopped using them as soon as they could find enough SPADs to replace them in the line squadrons. It's the Buffalo of WWI (at least the US version of the Buffalo).

AFAIK, Douglas Campbell was the only one you could really call an "N.28 Ace", many others got their starts on it but scored the bulk of their kills with SPAD XIIIs.
Title: Re: A few WWI planes
Post by: Treize69 on January 26, 2009, 04:06:56 PM
cant forget the greatest wwI plane

(http://www.whatalovelywar.co.uk/war/images/snoopy.gif)

i believe its a sopwith camel

(http://images.filecloud.com/733456/Snoopy.jpg)
Title: Re: A few WWI planes
Post by: Obie303 on January 26, 2009, 06:38:24 PM
cant forget the greatest wwI plane

(http://www.whatalovelywar.co.uk/war/images/snoopy.gif)

i believe its a sopwith camel

That better be a perked plane! :D
Title: Re: A few WWI planes
Post by: Noir on January 27, 2009, 08:34:12 AM
Spad XIII''s gotta be the uber ride
Title: Re: A few WWI planes
Post by: Anaxogoras on January 27, 2009, 08:42:11 AM
Spad XIII''s gotta be the uber ride

In DoA the Spad XIII was rarely used because the lack of dispersion made it near impossible to extend from an F1, and 50% of the planes in the arena were F1s.  The Fokker DVII had similar problems because the torque effects of the F1 were so minimal it could easily hang with the DVII in the vertical.

The F1 was the Spixteen of DoA.
Title: Re: A few WWI planes
Post by: TonyJoey on January 27, 2009, 09:03:11 AM
I'd be in the Fokker E.III  :aok
Title: Re: A few WWI planes
Post by: Bruv119 on January 27, 2009, 09:07:02 AM
too many fokkers for my liking.
Title: Re: A few WWI planes
Post by: Gabriel on January 27, 2009, 10:28:37 AM
More of an Albatros man myself  :uhoh
Title: Re: A few WWI planes
Post by: fudgums on January 27, 2009, 10:59:48 AM
Pwn you all with Half circles of death. The original ACM
Title: Re: A few WWI planes
Post by: Anaxogoras on January 27, 2009, 11:00:56 AM
Perk the F1!!!! :devil
Title: Re: A few WWI planes
Post by: BaldEagl on January 27, 2009, 11:07:44 AM
I don't think we'd need all those (but it would be nice eventually).

Here's the one's I'd like to see:

Friedrichshafen GIII
Neuport 17
Spad S.VII (I thought there was an S.VIII)
Bristol F.20
Sopwith Camel
Fokker DR.I
R.A.F. S.E.5a
Fokker D.VII

1 bomber, 7 fighters, more than enough for a good time.
Title: Re: A few WWI planes
Post by: Angus on January 27, 2009, 11:17:34 AM
Early ones...Sopwith pup and Sopwith triplane.
(I've seen a Sopwith triplane flying once).
Then the Avro whatever the number was (LAnoe Hawker's ride)
Did any of you fly the old Sierra's Red Baron?
Title: Re: A few WWI planes
Post by: Anaxogoras on January 27, 2009, 11:21:51 AM
No Albatross?

For single seat fighters my initial list would be:

Sopwith F1
Sopwith Triplane
SE5a
Spad XIII
Spad VII
Nieuport 17
Fokker D.VII
Fokker Dr.I
Albatross D.III

Did any of you fly the old Sierra's Red Baron?

Yup, and I even tried it online with an ancient modem, but wasn't impressed with the online play.
Title: Re: A few WWI planes
Post by: Lusche on January 27, 2009, 12:18:47 PM
I love pushers...

(http://www.ipmsstockholm.org/magazine/2006/12/images/qvarfordt_dh2_14.jpg)
Title: Re: A few WWI planes
Post by: Rino on January 27, 2009, 12:40:58 PM
     You WW1 fans should try

www.oldrhinebeck.org

     Alot of the birds you have been discussing are up there.
Title: Re: A few WWI planes
Post by: Obie303 on January 27, 2009, 01:42:12 PM
(http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff186/obie303/dawnpatrol.jpg)

Billy Bishop's 85 Squadron flew the S.E. 5a
Title: Re: A few WWI planes
Post by: Treize69 on January 27, 2009, 01:55:59 PM
     You WW1 fans should try

www.oldrhinebeck.org

     Alot of the birds you have been discussing are up there.

It looks like Rhinebeck is about to go "bye bye".

http://www.mikespandau.org/petition/ram.htm
Title: Re: A few WWI planes
Post by: Baumer on January 27, 2009, 02:21:14 PM
I went to Rhinebeck about every other year when I was growing up in the late 70's early 80's.
Truly a one of a kind place, it would be a shame if it were to close.

Here's the one I'd really like to see if they did a WWI plane set.

(http://tbn0.google.com/hosted/images/c?q=421cd2ff3dd0baa1_landing)

I've always liked the Dolphin after seeing it at Rhinebeck.
In 1999 I was there and actually bought a rib from the upper wing, and it hangs in my office today.

(http://332nd.org/dogs/baumer/office/DolphinRib.jpg)
Title: Re: A few WWI planes
Post by: Cajunn on January 27, 2009, 02:32:23 PM
I think I read somewhere that it was thought by both sides that the Fokker D-VII was the best of WW1, not the fastest but I don't think speed in WW1 was all that important, it was all about the turning!
Title: Re: A few WWI planes
Post by: Treize69 on January 27, 2009, 02:40:57 PM
I think I read somewhere that it was thought by both sides that the Fokker D-VII was the best of WW1, not the fastest but I don't think speed in WW1 was all that important, it was all about the turning!

Someone at the time said about the D.VII (if I'm quoting accurately) that it "turned mediocre pilots into good pilots, and good pilots into aces".

But its still not a sexy as an Albatros D.III or D.V :)
Title: Re: A few WWI planes
Post by: Anaxogoras on January 27, 2009, 03:27:05 PM
I think I read somewhere that it was thought by both sides that the Fokker D-VII was the best of WW1, not the fastest but I don't think speed in WW1 was all that important, it was all about the turning!

Actually, the DVII was a great fighter because it didn't lose so much performance above 12k ft, compared to e.g. the F1.
Title: Re: A few WWI planes
Post by: Angus on January 27, 2009, 04:29:24 PM
The D VII AFAIK was the ultimate fighter of WWI. A runner up would be the Sopwith Snipe.
Actually beginning with a model of the VII.....

Anyway, it had a good allround performance, either very good or best in every category. And it could also hang on the prop rather than spinning out. Good enough to be banned in the treaty of Versailles.
So, Anthony Fokker moved to Holland ...
Title: Re: A few WWI planes
Post by: Treize69 on January 27, 2009, 04:30:34 PM
The D VII AFAIK was the ultimate fighter of WWI. A runner up would be the Sopwith Snipe.
Actually beginning with a model of the VII.....

Anyway, it had a good allround performance, either very good or best in every category. And it could also hang on the prop rather than spinning out. Good enough to be banned in the treaty of Versailles.
So, Anthony Fokker returned to Holland ...

Fixed it. :)
Title: Re: A few WWI planes
Post by: MiloMorai on January 27, 2009, 04:56:03 PM
Anthony Fokker just returned home.
Title: Re: A few WWI planes
Post by: balance1 on January 27, 2009, 08:06:51 PM
thats pretty cool I live less than 15 mins from the rhinebeck aerodrome, its an awesome place!
Title: Re: A few WWI planes
Post by: Mace2004 on January 31, 2009, 10:45:39 AM
For our bomber dudes:

(http://trainers.hitechcreations.com/files/mace/zepcov.jpg)